£20 - theft by finding

[goto10]

Hopefully not pea roast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39129975
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-39119990

If there's ever an example of why you should say "No comment"/"That's not me"/"I want legal advice" when talking to the police, this is it.
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[M.C]

Just saw that myself actually. Yeah kinda stupid.

[fatjames]

...losers weepers.

"This was someone's hard-earned money and we are committed to supporting all victims in our community."

Hard earned, but not very well looked after.

[chickenstrip]

[stinkwheel]

So much for the public interest test.

What would the average member of the public expect you to do if you found a £20 lying on the ground?

For me, look around, if noone was in the vicinity who looks like they dropped it, straight in the pocket.

It also begs the question where does it stop? What is the prosecution limit for picking money up off the floor?

Would you be done for picking up a plastic fiver hurredly dropped in disgust by a level 5 vegan?

A nugget?

A penny?
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[Monkeywrenche...]

[chickenstrip]

[goto10]

I've lost £20 before - I certainly didn't bother trying to find out what happened to it - my first thought was "Balls, that made someone's day" - if it was a significant sum, then yes, I'd hope that it was handed in somewhere. But there's the rub, what constitutes a significant sum? That £20 might've been the only cash he had for food shopping for the coming week, and so, to him, it was a significant loss.

But it's astonishing that she wasn't just asked to return the cash and have an informal dressing-down by a uniformed officer about the rights and wrongs of keeping cash that she finds. Dem stats innit.
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[Rogerborg]

What would the average member of the public do if they dropped £20 in a shop?

Go back and say "Did I drop £20 in here?"

Shopkeep says "Yeah, I saw some bird picking something up, it's probably on the CC... oops."

MOP throws an eppy, "That's for my babby's fags!", shrieks for the poh-leece, the wheels of State grind into inexorable motion, and many many people's time is consequently wasted.

I reckon I've spotted who the villain is here.
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[M.C]

[B5234FT]

TBH if I realised I'd dropped £20 I wouldnt even go back to ask (unless it was seconds ago) as the odds of it being there are so slim.

If I dropped my wallet (or found someone elses) I'd expect it to be handed into the police, but again it's less about the cash and more about the cost and inconvenience of replacing driving license, cards, personal items and the wallet itself. I rarely carry more than £40 and if that was missing when the wallet was returned, meh. I'd still be glad to have the rest back.

To waste court time on it is simply moronic.

[Suntan Sid]

Three months!
That's how long it was before plod contacted the "thief".

FFS, your bike/car/property gets nicked, even with clear cctv evidence, social meeja bragging and the name of the scrote who did it, plod are not even remotely interested.
Yet someone loses a £20 note and plod "investigate" for 3 months, going through the cctv and nick someone, WTF is going on?

Why was the "thief" not just told to give the "victim" the £20 back, instead of wasting public money on a court case?
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[Monkeypony]

Who in the blue fuck would actually report the loss of £20 to the police in the first place!!!
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[hellkat]

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[Monkeywrenche...]

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[Poundshop Dave]

Thing is though, handing anything into a plod station is a ball ache. I found a Samsung J5 last year, smashed screen on a pay and display car park. As there was a Police station a few minutes walk, I handed it in. They wanted to know so much, where it was found, was the screen smashed when I found it or did I drop it, etc etc.

Won't bother next time.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I dropped a very well looked after fart in a shop once. Went back a couple hours later but there was no sign of it. I was just too sad to ask the bloke behind the counter, but I think he had something to do with it, the look he gave me.

[M.C]

[Andy_Pagin]

I'd definitely hand the money over to the police. For someone living on the breadline it would be a huge amount to lose.
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[Commuter_Tim]

[Poundshop Dave]

I honestly just don't get it. I have never stole from a person, if I found £20 in a shop I'd hand it in to the shop keeper in the hope he would do the right thing. £20 is not a lot of money but if it's all you have to get you through to your next pay day then it's everything.

The woman deserved all she got and should be named and shamed and ridiculed in public. I have no sympathy for the woman or her sob story.
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[Rogerborg]

What if the shopkeeper was mdp72 though?
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