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Poll: You find some cash on the floor... what do you do?

Leave it: 30% (40 votes)
Pick it: 42% (56 votes)
Alert people around: 20% (27 votes)
Tell the police (lol): 6% (9 votes)
This poll has ended

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Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by Spyker: 6:29pm On Aug 09, 2011
It depends on the amount. This will certainly affect my action.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by nasoeb: 6:49pm On Aug 09, 2011
I guess the amount will definitely affect my actions. if its not much up to N1,000, i will try to get the attention of those around to be in possession hopefully the owner may come looking for it. But if its much and even in Ghana-Must-Go form, then i will get it and try to see if there is any identifiable means of reaching the owner so i will do it myself because its absolutely no assurance that the next person will try contacting the owner. but after all these i cant reach out to the owner, then i will go back and plan on what to do with it, which may include announcing by media and if anyone can give a precise description of it, i will let it off.

Times are hard so i wouldn't want to cause anybody pain just without trying to give them second chance.

if after this no one can claim it, then i can comfortably arrange am wella

cheers!!!
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by ReLaTE(m): 7:07pm On Aug 09, 2011
nasoeb:

I guess the amount will definitely affect my actions. if its not much up to N1,000, i will try to get the attention of those around to be in possession hopefully the owner may come looking for it. But if its much and even in Ghana-Must-Go form, then i will get it and try to see if there is any identifiable means of reaching the owner so i will do it myself because its absolutely no assurance that the next person will try contacting the owner. but after all these i cant reach out to the owner, then i will go back and plan on what to do with it, which may include announcing by media and if anyone can give a precise description of it, i will let it off.

Times are hard so i wouldn't want to cause anybody pain just without trying to give them second chance.

if after this no one can claim it, then i can comfortably arrange am wella

cheers!!!
u just said my mind and that is the best thing to do.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by nasoeb: 8:18pm On Aug 09, 2011
@ Relate

thanks Bro
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by mcdokwe(m): 8:36pm On Aug 09, 2011
make i see am first
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by Aderupoko2: 8:46pm On Aug 09, 2011
I will first touch the money with one finger and pause.If I notice I didnt change to snake or goat etc,I will use the second finger touch the money.If nothing happens,then I will use all my hands carry the money oh!Maybe its part of the money I lost b4,a long time ago that God wants to bring back to reward me.But some how,money no dey fall for ground like those days again oh!People don get extra-pocket incase the real pocket dey leak grin grin grin
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by greggng: 8:55pm On Aug 09, 2011
in 1994 i picked 2k in 20 naira denomination .I waited for someone to show up as the owner but non showed up. i was a born again then i decided to give it to the police man at the check point to keep for the owner. I got home and my sister refused to give me food. she was angry because she claimed i gave the money to criminals.she advice me to take it to the church next time.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by RickyRoss1(m): 9:29pm On Aug 09, 2011
Aderupoko2:

I will first touch the money with one finger and pause.If I notice I didnt change to snake or goat etc,I will use the second finger touch the money.If nothing happens,then I will use all my hands carry the money oh!Maybe its part of the money I lost b4,a long time ago that God wants to bring back to reward me.But some how,money no dey fall for ground like those days again oh!People don get extra-pocket incase the real pocket dey leak grin grin grin

UNA NO GO KILL ME WITH LAFF
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by Ndipe(m): 9:32pm On Aug 09, 2011
For those confessing they will pocket the money, I hope you dont go around throwing blame on the corrupt politicans back home because y'all are in the same boat.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by ouchexy: 10:39pm On Aug 09, 2011
nasoeb:

I guess the amount will definitely affect my actions. if its not much up to N1,000, i will try to get the attention of those around to be in possession hopefully the owner may come looking for it. But if its much and even in Ghana-Must-Go form, then i will get it and try to see if there is any identifiable means of reaching the owner so i will do it myself because its absolutely no assurance that the next person will try contacting the owner. but after all these i cant reach out to the owner, then i will go back and plan on what to do with it, which may include announcing by media and if anyone can give a precise description of it, i will let it off.

Times are hard so i wouldn't want to cause anybody pain just without trying to give them second chance.

if after this no one can claim it, then i can comfortably arrange am wella

cheers!!!
I assure that once you leave an option of 'arranging am wella', that is definitely what you will do. Believe me, the temptation will be more than you can handle if it occurs in real life.

greggng:

in 1994 i picked 2k in 20 naira denomination .I waited for someone to show up as the owner but non showed up. i was a born again then i decided to give it to the police man at the check point to keep for the owner. I got home and my sister refused to give me food. she was angry because she claimed i gave the money to criminals.she advice me to take it to the church next time.
was? meaning that you are no longer born again? Am sure you regret that action now and you must have made a vow that given that opportunity again, you will pocket it. grin grin grin angry cool
I noticed a lot of people confuse advise with advice. Advise is the verb form while advice is the noun form. e.g.
I advised her to take her studies seriously
She decided to take my advice
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by kheme(m): 11:07pm On Aug 09, 2011
@ouchexy: what's your opinion na? leave person grammar speak your own mind na
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by ouchexy: 11:17pm On Aug 09, 2011
kheme:

@ouchexy: what's your opinion na? leave person grammar speak your own mind na
I will see if I can return the money. Police station is definitely a no-go area. If I am unable to trace the owner with a reasonable period of time, I will give the money to charity, I will definitely not use the money. For me, nothing like jazz or juju. It's all exaggerated superstition. I will touch the money.
I am not a poor person, but if I were a very poor person living in absolute penury, I will use part of the money to feed myself at that moment, but will certainly return the remaining either to the owner or to charity, but with a confession that I had to feed myself with part of the cash.
That's me!!!!! wink
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by semid4lyfe(m): 11:48pm On Aug 09, 2011
Responses on this thread have got me ROTFLMAO grin grin
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by KayDee4: 4:49am On Aug 10, 2011
Pick it up , Pick it up

Could be your "manna from heaven", dont reject ur blessing.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by zikclassiq(m): 8:15am On Aug 10, 2011
Jus take it to any media house. Police***? U don carry banana give monkey be dat nw? Lol!
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by Chukbeck(m): 8:17am On Aug 10, 2011
I have once picked up 20 Naira back then in Secondary Sch and returned to the Principal. The following morning I was called upon during assembly and given a prize for my honesty. Morals pay. What you would not want anybody to do to you, dont do it to someone else.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by kheme(m): 7:45pm On Aug 10, 2011
okay, lemme list ma experiences so far (at least the ones i can remember):

[list]
[li]i remember a day at uniben, waiting to make photo copy with a friend, i found 200naira just under the front tire of the car i was leaning on, never told ma friend bout it though lol[/li]
[li]another time was a day my gf left ma house pissed, and i was chasing after her, she was too pissed to answer me. i had no cash, nothing, and just kept following her, she entered bus and was going and i was determined to follow her oh lol. next thing, i saw 20naira on the floor all cut up with scissors, got on the bus and the conductor still gave me change, went after ma gf mehn lol[/li]
[li]another time, was standing waiting for a bus with a friend, saw 50naira in the grass, my friend no gree let me pick am oh lol shouted at me to leave it, had to leave it[/li]
[li]then in cyprus, i've found couple of 1bucks here and there, lol[/li]
[li]once found 50bucks inside a while labelless envelope on the floor one summer like that[/li]
[li]and lastly, the event that prompted this thread, i found 80buck on the floor inside an office building[/li]
[/list]

i happen to have a habbit of picking things of the floor, people say it's bad but i really don't care, i've picked a friend's passbook from bush ones. recently picked a friend's AAU ID Card (in cyprus) on the floor. my collection of almost 100 pens/pencils, i picked (or found) most of them at various places and different times tongue

but i wont piss or spit or flog or anything sha. will pick it if i can, or show someone if i can't pick it or if i feel "it's not safe". i'd rather not let the next person become 100bucks richer than me when i had same opportunuty.

if a very large sum of money, i'd take it, keep it, and PRAY that no one asks for it for like a week, before i decide to spend it. but if someone announces that they misplaced it, i'd give it back.

i've also lost money on a few occasions though, never found it back, karma, rite? grin
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by EfeEkarume(m): 8:32pm On Aug 10, 2011
I will put on a fitted NEPA gloves and drag the money with a long rake straight to my house. I have to play safe you know. No one wants to turn into a baby rhino.
Re: Finder's Keeper's: Finding Cash On The Ground by Galaxy7: 10:47pm On Aug 10, 2011
The ammount determines my action if huge i'd keep it to my self then announce or better still give it to any human right activist but give to the polic lol i no go fit do boy smiley smiley

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