Million Pound Question

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:21 am

You find a suitcase with a million quid in it. No possible way anyone could know you've got it. What would you do?

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:30 am

I kept both of them

T6 KFR · Post by **T6 KFR** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:49 am

Keep it for a while and if no one ever came looking for it - finders keepers here comes a new V6

robin · Post by **robin** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:53 am

Hand it in to the police. If nobody comes forward you get to keep it after some period of time (cannot remember exactly what that time is, now, or even if it's true!).

Post by **C7Steve** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:56 am

robin wrote:Hand it in to the police. If nobody comes forward you get to keep it after some period of time (cannot remember exactly what that time is, now, or even if it's true!).

30 days.

Steve.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:25 am

C7Steve wrote:
robin wrote:Hand it in to the police. If nobody comes forward you get to keep it after some period of time (cannot remember exactly what that time is, now, or even if it's true!).
30 days.

Steve.

Heard it was 28. But that's splitting hairs....

Handing to the police would give you accountability. Say it belonged to someone rather unsavoury?

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:03 am

Accountability would be good - it would be very difficult to make big purchases or bank that much money without some difficult questions coming up.

If you ran away to foreign shores with it, you may find it easier to use.

Why are you asking Ross? Find something? My old mate

.......now where did I leave that suit case lying?

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:09 am

I'm not answering any questions....

I'm aware that an unconventional spending peak may well create interest from Her Majesty's R 'n' C...

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:26 am

Try googling on it, almost impossible to get a clear cut answer. Theft by finding can be a criminal offence, but it seems to apply to objects, with a whoozy explanation of you should make reasonable efforts to find out who it belongs to before you keep it. I had this recently when I found an iPhone in the drive, tried to trace the owner, could not, so kept it. I could have handed it in to the police but thought that there was more chance that the owner would contact me.

As for cash, Verian gets annoyed when people drop a small coin and can not be bothered to pick it up, so she does. If she found a £20 note, she is so bloody honest that she would probably contemplate handing it in which would be plain silly as how could anybody then claim ownership. If she then found £100 in notes with a rubber band around it, she would almost definitely hand it in as the owner could give details. So in that case it is down to conscience. If it was in a wallet and you kept it that would be theft by finding if the police could trace it to you, which would be highly unlikely.

If you walk past a skip and there is a bike in it, the owner has discarded it so you think that you can legally take it. You could, but you are then committing theft because it belongs to the owner of the skip. Would the police take any notice? Who the hell knows nowadays.

As regards the original question I think that it would come down to amount if the police were aware of it. I walk the dogs every day in Aikey Brae, if I found a placcy bag with £50K in it that had been thrown over the fence, I could be expected to know that it was probably criminal money and hand it in. However it would go straight in the boot as my conscience would be clear that it did not belong to a poor OAP. However I would be taking the chance that the police or the drug dealer could trace me, and would end up in Court or dead.

Worth taking the chance and taking a trip down to MMC.

The same applies to Bank deposits. If you have £20 deposited into your account which should not have been, then you are not expected to be aware of that, however if it was £1M then you would be on a sticky wicket if you just kept it without reporting it.

In reality it comes down to common sense probably mixed in with conscience.

tut

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:48 am

So you'd keep it then

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:28 pm

Yep, if there were no details inside then I would not take the chance of it being claimed, especially by someone who is careless enough to lose £1M, and it probably belonged to a City Bank Trader still in nappies who was partly responsible for the collapse in the first place.

Other than that it was a bookies winnings who would have the chance of making it again, whereas for me it would be a once in a lifetime. Was thrown out of the RAF in 1959 for "lack of personal qualities" so I am obviously not perfect, though I do claim naiveness in letting myself be groomed by the Group Captain's daughter (she was only the GC's daughter, but you should have heard her take off).

tut

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:27 pm

Hand the £750k suitcase to the police.

Post by **pete** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:25 pm

Keep it.
Hide it.

Spend it slowwwwllly...

Post by **pete** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:26 pm

(PS I can give you 20p in the pound. Clean money, guaranteed.)

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:22 am

pete wrote:Keep it.
Hide it.

Spend it slowwwwllly...

What about when they change the notes?

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