MONEY MORAL DILEMMA: Would you intervene?

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Here's this week's hypothetical situation for you to cogitate on:
Whilst waiting in a fast food queue, you spot a £10 note on the floor. You ask the person in front if it’s theirs, they say no, and pick it up saying they’ll check with counter staff. Once there instead they simply pocket the money. Do you say something before they leave the queue or keep quiet?
Note: This was inspired by a story in London's Metro newspaper, 9 Sept 2008
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Would you leave a small shop in the lurch?
Would you take the kids out of school for a holiday?
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Would you ask for the tenner back
Whilst waiting in a fast food queue, you spot a £10 note on the floor. You ask the person in front if it’s theirs, they say no, and pick it up saying they’ll check with counter staff. Once there instead they simply pocket the money. Do you say something before they leave the queue or keep quiet?
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Note: This was inspired by a story in London's Metro newspaper, 9 Sept 2008
Previous MMDs:
Would you leave a small shop in the lurch?
Would you take the kids out of school for a holiday?
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Me too
But - in this scenario, I would have made a fuss, I have a temper you dont mess with
Assuming they had deliberately decided to keep it, I would look for the biggest guy around and tell him what was going on so he could tell them it was his money they found, and sit back to watch the fun.
- Go straight into the pocket of the person you give it to
- Sit in an office waiting to be claimed before going into the pocket of the staff or more likely, the manager.
- Go towards the profit of the business that you hand it to.
The person who owned it aren't going to come and claim it so whatever you do with it, you're just making a choice of who's pocket it's going into. Might as well be your own or the guy that was clever enough to pick it up before you did.