left £140 in cash machine, help please!

SwissLe

Interesting moral question. If you took the cash from the machine, called the person but couldn't attract their attention would you then pocket the cash?

It is a more complex version of handing money in you find on the street to the police.

arfster

SwissLe wrote: »

Interesting moral question. If you took the cash from the machine, called the person but couldn't attract their attention would you then pocket the cash?

Don't think I'd hand it into the police - what chance is there they'd spend all that time chasing up the bank to get it to the owner? Probably it'd just end up in the end of year party budget.

I like to think that if all else failed, and the bank refused to help, I'd give it to charity. Of course, it's easy to be noble with hypothetical good deeds......

immmys

i was in preston lancashire and used the lloyds tbs cash machine to withdraw 300 pounds but i took the card and left without taking the cash. I checked with the bank and the 300 has been debited. I think some one behind me took it

i have reported to the police and i am waiting for a appointment to explain it

hopefully the cctv on the atm would have caught it

the atm was on lancaster road preston

im gutted!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ps any ideas how i can go about getting my cash back any one helppppppppp

*Kat*

That's weird...I walked up to a cash point at a bank on xmas eve once and there was £30 sitting in there. I took it and went to hand it into the bank but it was shut. I mean, there was no one around teh cash point so didn't know about this "second" rule thing you guys are talking about

nzseries1

Oh man, vixtress never came back and told us the result!

RuthnJasper

*Kat* wrote: »

That's weird...I walked up to a cash point at a bank on xmas eve once and there was £30 sitting in there. I took it and went to hand it into the bank but it was shut. I mean, there was no one around teh cash point so didn't know about this "second" rule thing you guys are talking about

I think it's similar to the food-related "second" rule... if you drop some food on the floor and it's been there for more than three seconds, then it becomes unsafe to retrieve and eat it. :rotfl:

Wish I could afford to not notice £140-worth of the Queen's images winking at me in the breeze!

If I'd found it in the cash machine, I'd have handed it in to the bank and, if the bank was closed, I'd put it in an envelope and take it in another time. If it doesn't belong to me, it's just paper and metal.:)

eeyore87

A year or so ago I walked past a bank's cash machine with £40 hanging out of it's gaping jaws - without thinking I went straight in and handed it to the lady at the help desk (explaining where I'd found it etc) and as soon as I walked out I started questioning whether or not that had been the right thing to do! Presumably the bank have a way of linking up 'lost' cash withdrawals with account holders who have used machines but I wonder if the person ever got their money back.

DCFC79

immmys wrote: »

i was in preston lancashire and used the lloyds tbs cash machine to withdraw 300 pounds but i took the card and left without taking the cash. I checked with the bank and the 300 has been debited. I think some one behind me took it

i have reported to the police and i am waiting for a appointment to explain it

hopefully the cctv on the atm would have caught it

the atm was on lancaster road preston

im gutted!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ps any ideas how i can go about getting my cash back any one helppppppppp

why drag up an old thread