It's no joke - Save your coppers!!

aurorahelios

pollyanna24 wrote:

The other day I was out with a friend and we all went to use the cashpoint. The lady before my friend very kindly left £50 for him. I'm sure she was mightily miffed when she found out, but it paid for our dinner in a local pub!! Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

I would class that as stealing - You could have returned it to them fairly easy. There is a difference between finding money on the street and seeing somebody lose money and you pocketing it.

Finding money is great but it does raise the dilemma of how much you could find before reporting it to the police.

GIRLPOWER_2

pollyanna24 wrote:

Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

Yes. Theft by finding. Be carefull most cash points have CCTV.

moggins

pollyanna24 wrote:

The other day I was out with a friend and we all went to use the cashpoint. The lady before my friend very kindly left £50 for him. I'm sure she was mightily miffed when she found out, but it paid for our dinner in a local pub!! Now is that stealing? I don't know, but it was tasty!

I'm sorry but I'd call that stealing too, my DH did this just before christmas and luckily came back just in time to see two 10 year olds walking off with the money.

It took some real hassle to get them to give it back and it was money we could not afford to lose. It's the first and only time my DH had ever done this but he had so much on his mind that he just walked away from the machine.

pinkfluffybabe

I think there is a difference between finding money on the street such as loose change, or something like £5 and making sure no one around you has just dropped it, and taking money from an ATM.

I couldn't have done that, I would be heartbroken if it happened to me.

reehsetin

Avoriaz wrote:

I remember once reading that a typical bowl of free peanuts on a bar contains traces of urine from 21 different people. That is probably an urban myth but I wonder if the same applies to coins picked up off the ground.

Dog poos on pavement; coin drops on ground and collects 10 million nasty bacteria from poo; child picks up coin and 2 million bacteria transfer to child’s hand: child sucks fingers or eats a sweet and swallows 1 million bacteria. :eek:

I’m never touching a coin again.:D

there was an article years ago that said something stupid like 80% of money had traces of drugs on them, i wouldnt be suprised, just stick all your coppers in a bottle of coke

Angelselondon

Avoriaz wrote:

I remember once reading that a typical bowl of free peanuts on a bar contains traces of urine from 21 different people. That is probably an urban myth but I wonder if the same applies to coins picked up off the ground.

Dog poos on pavement; coin drops on ground and collects 10 million nasty bacteria from poo; child picks up coin and 2 million bacteria transfer to child’s hand: child sucks fingers or eats a sweet and swallows 1 million bacteria. :eek:

I’m never touching a coin again.:D

Yes but your body does need to build up it's natural defence. If you are feeling concerned get a bottle of hand steriliser it's about 80p from wilkinsons and lasts ages.

angelatgraceland

bobbarley wrote:

I know it sounds stupid, and people always joke about it, but seriously, save all your 1 and 2 pence pieces!!

When I was a kid I used to wander around school and dinner and notice coppers on the ground. so I started collecting them. A year or so ago I was with a friend. He put his hand in his pocket and it was full of coppers, so he threw them onto the ground and said he hated them!!

Since I started collecting 1 and 2 pence pieces I've made over £100 :beer:

He wouldnt have stayed my "friend" for long with that attitude to money! That would have driven me mad-every penny was precious to me. If you don't want the coppers-put them in a tin and hand them in to a charity shop!

angelatgraceland

reehsetin wrote:

there was an article years ago that said something stupid like 80% of money had traces of drugs on them, i wouldnt be suprised, just stick all your coppers in a bottle of coke

Coke-cola-LOL :beer: :j :j :j :j :j coke and drugs-I dunno!

Avoriaz

Angelselondon wrote:

Yes but your body does need to build up it's natural defence. If you are feeling concerned get a bottle of hand steriliser it's about 80p from wilkinsons and lasts ages.

I wasn’t being entirely serious.:D

I follow basic sensible hygiene practices but I’m really not obsessive about it.

We all have to eat some dirt before we die.

Contains_Mild_Peril

I remember my Home Economics teacher at school insisting that we must wash our hands immediately on entering the kitchen. The next thing we had to do was hand in the money we paid for ingredients used, which of course necessitated washing our hands again. :rolleyes2
I still pick up copper coins in the street when it's convenient to do so (e.g. when I'm not carrying shopping in both hands and when there are no school pupils, especially from my son's school, in eyeshot). Since I'm in the habit of looking, I sometimes find larger amounts of money. Though I will hand any large denomination banknotes in to the police, loose banknotes are hardly ever claimed from lost property, and are usually returned to the finder.