I was helping my friends kids do a park clean up and one of them found a large wad of cash (less than $200). I told the one who found it that I need to check with the police before she can have it, just in case it belongs to someone in need.
But is that a thing? I didn’t want to say she could keep it right away because I want to set a good example. But it isn’t a ton of money so I assume the police would not be interested. So what do?
My ex and I once found nearly $500 in cash in a Lowe’s parking lot. What did we do? We put it in our pocket, and used it to help pay that month’s rent.
Check if there’s a local Facebook page. I don’t use it myself but my daughter lost her phone recently and my wife had someone contact her before she even realised it was gone.
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If it has no identifiable information the police won’t be able to return it.
Like someone else said, the best way to get it back to its owner is to set up signs saying that you’ve found “something” and that if someone has lost anything in the park around certain date to contact you.
If after a few weeks you haven’t found the owner just let the kid pocket it.
I was about to say the same thing until I thought “well, what if the person who lost it actually goes to the police seeing if it was found?”
It might not be too uncommon if it’s a small town for there to be a lost and found thing there. The small town I grew up in had one.
I am 99% certain the police would just say the cash was probably going to be used for drugs and then they would just take it themselves.
Where I live you actually don’t go to the police. Anything left of on the street belongs to the municipality so you’d have to go to the municipalities office. That said, I’d think it’s quite hard to track down owners of cash… You can inform the appropriate body in your country that they can contact you if they find the owner. Then after some time (maybe documented somewhere?) you can keep it.
I can hold onto it for you
Put posters signaling you found something (do not mention it’s cash) and would like to return it if the person can say what it is on the phone.
If someone hasn’t claimed it in 2 weeks, I’d give it to the kid (or we’ll probably her parents).
I’d also ask the kid were exactly they got it. If it was in a tree hollow or something similar, it might have been hidden and meant to pay for a drug deal or something. You never know, I just wouldn’t want that person having my contact info.
Give the finder $100, and use the other $100 to buy pizza and soda for the crew.
I’m assuming there was no ID or contact info with it, since you probably wouldn’t be asking if there was.
Hypothetically, if you were to give it to the police, how would the police know that who the rightful owner is? If I walk into a police station right now and say I lost $200, do you think they would hand over $200 to me? No, I have no way of proving thats my money, and they wouldn’t believe me for a second.
Keep it. Lord knows everyone could probably use an extra few hundred bucks these days…
Just keep the dough. Finders keepers.
Yeah, if it was just naked cash, no envelope, no wallet, no indication of who it belongs to?
If I lost money in that fashion, I know it is gone.
This is the answer. If the money was in a wallet, then find the person and return the wallet. If the money was by itself, give it back to the kid or take them out for pizza or something.
Your story needs a lot more context for anyone to provide reasonable advice on here.
If it’s a nice clean park in an affluent neighbourhood, chances are someone accidentally lost the money.
If it’s in a sketchy part of town with higher levels of crime nearby … chances are it was drug money that was tossed for one reason or another because something bad happened.
So the resulting answers will be different … if this all happened in a law abiding neighbourhood, then you should take your time and official avenues to figure out if someone lost their money. If it’s in an obviously rough place where drug dealing or other illegal activity is happening, then I would probably say to just keep the money and don’t talk about it too much. It’s not easy or advisable to return money to criminals or people engaging in criminal activity.
Lmao. If it was a poors money, just keep it, but if it was a Rich’s then find them and ask for more.
Watch local social media to see if anyone reports losing money. If nothing, and you’re trying to set a moral example, donate it to charity.
Very simple: if you lost $200, what would you like the person who found it to do?
Whoa whoa whoa
Consider the feelings of others???Put it towards rent, shit’s insane these days
videogames and pizza
That could be someone’s grocery or bail money.
