What would you do...

If you went to somewhere like Walmart to buy something, stepped out of your car, and felt something beneath your foot (other than your shoe )? You look down to see that it is someone's wallet, but there's no one around. When you open it up, you find a stunning $1200 dollars inside along with credit cards and an ID card. So what would you do? You have an ID card so you could return it to the man's address...or would it be fair game and keep the money for yourself? Or would you turn it in to custody so they can give the owner his money with a few thousand mysteriously missing?

I heard a story about this today... I'll post it after the responses. And don't lie.

srsly.. i'de just leave it there in the hope of someone else giving it back

That's the last answer I expected to get.

do i have to tell the truth?

That's up to you... I'll never really know.

tell da truuuuth

Take the money. Leave everything else.

But then my parents would tell me to return everything since I know who it belongs to D:

I would take the money and leave everything else too. I would feel really guilty, but I wouldn't change my mind.

Anyway, here's the story:

One of my teacher's father was confronted with that exact situation mentioned above. He was going to buy a TV set, so he picked up the wallet, milled through the $1200 and walked up to (some store...I don't remember). He was a retired soldier and was living on very limited funds, but he stopped anyway and decided to return the wallet to its rightful owner.

So he went home, picked up the phone, and dialed a phone number he found in the wallet. When the person on the other end of the line picked up, my teacher's grandfather asked "Have you lost something?" just in case. A man answered "Yes, I've lost my wallet." and the two preceded to set up a meeting place and return the wallet. When the two met, the stranger looked terrible, as if he had been crying and panicking for days on end, which he had. He explained that his wife had just had a baby, but his family had so little money that they had to ask friends and relatives to give some financial help. After getting just enough money to buy the basic necessities, he ended up losing his wallet. He searched everywhere, and after being unable to find it, started to contemplate suicide. Without the money, his family would sink into a much greater poverty and might even have to give their child away. But he could just go up to his friends and family and admit he lost the money from carelessness, then ask for even more money. Even still, the guy was so grateful for having his wallet brought back to him that he offered my teacher's father a hundred bucks. But he denied and later supported the family by giving financial aid too.

Pretty nice guy... he helped a family through financial crises as well as saved someone from a suicidal end...

you know it really says a lot if you'd take the money even after relating that story

but u know u always could give back *some* of it and then if a situation like this occurs you could just return *all* of it


not saying that id do that but that would be a win win situation