About a year ago I found £250 on the floor in a Deichman shoes store
I handed it in to the staff because had I kept it I would have been plagued with dreams of a poor old lady who was on the street starving to death. The lady behind the counter who I handed it to actually cried because she didn't think people did things like that anymore.

Of course it could have been £250 of someone's crack money but I'd rather con myself into believing that the imaginary old lady went back to the shop and got her money back and had a lovely Christmas dinner with her grandchildren who she never gets to see and lived happily ever after.

I did call to see if anyone had collected it but the woman on the phone was a bit rude so I think in reality she pocketed it for herself.
( Mrs Sp@m, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 11:57, 3 replies)

Yeah, what do you do in that situation?
If it happens to me i'll tell the staff, give my name & number and hand the money in at the police station.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 11:59, closed)

I think if it happened again I would do exactly that.
It's one of those things where I wish I had Hero Nakamura's powers so I could go back in time to see who dropped it and give it back to them, unless they were dirty crack dealers then I would have probably given it to a addicts charity just to smite them.
( Mrs Sp@m, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 12:01, closed)

What not to do..
Don't tell the staff how much money, or they're likely to just go and collect it themselves.

probably could anyway, just knowing where and when lost is probably enough for the rozzers, assuming they don't put it behind the bar after work.

I think it's terrible to lose money, but there are so few you can trust, although perhaps cctv could identify the one who lost the cash.
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Thu 13 Nov 2008, 16:15, closed)