Would You Have Done This ?

[Fusion5]

One of my sons lost his wallet on Thursday (left on the roof of his car). When he rang his Building Society to cancel his debit card, they told him that somebody had already cancelled it for him and had found his wallet and left their phone number. Unfortunately the number was one digit missing so he can't trace this person.

My question is, if you found a wallet would you think to cancel the owners debit card ?

His driving licence and name/address and phone number was in the wallet, but so far nobody has contacted him.

[tiggerblue10]

Years ago my friend and I found a purse. Luckily it had details in it and we took the purse to the lady who it belonged to.

[looobylooo]

My mum had her purse stolen some years ago from her bag, whilst standing watching a street entertainer in town,
Enclosed was money, a couple of family photographs, & her name & address info, plus the front door key...
We had a phone call one night shortly afterwards, at about midnight(!) from a man, saying he had 'found' the purse and was ringing us to let us know he would be returning it...
Funnily enough we never did receive the purse .. More likely he was ringing to see if anyone was home before letting himself in! .. :o/
Lucky we'd had the lock changed.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh it was me....

No I did this last week for a lady - I remember cancelling it and her name just in case I see myself on Crimewatch....but not the circs when I found it.

Oh it was outside an Aisan corner shop and I went back inside - having previously given them legal advice actually and asked did your last customer pay by card ?
and everyone said O god you shouldnt be doing that !
[ but surely they are as honest as we are ? ]

and the Asian owners view was O god it may be stolen get it out of here I do not wish in any way to be involved with stoel property

so there are a variety of responses here to one found bank card.


I dropped my cheque book same place 15y ago and it ended up back at the bank !

[EcclesCake]

Peter, can you run that by me again as I haven't a clue what you are on about!

[Peter Pedant]

O God midnight telephone calls

A frenz laptop was stolen and later that night 12 mn to 2 am
I got a call saying that I had bought bicycle on ebay that day
when did they want me (for them) to come around and collect the money

and I said this laptop was stolen earlier on today....

he rang off....he did actually say he was three miles away...

[Peter Pedant]

oh eccles move on move on

summary I found a card and reported it back in....

[EcclesCake]

Sorry Peter, but I find your posts really quite impenetrable.

I suspect there is good advice in some of them but it is an arduous task trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.....or the street speak from the English language.....

[Peter Pedant]

sorry ecc I am impenetrable, PP

[Mamyalynne]

I believe Peter has mentioned in the past, he is on strong medication.

[EcclesCake]

Thank you for that Mamya.

[Old_Geezer]

If I found the wallet I would assume no one else had so wouldn't inconvenience the owner by cancelling it.

[Svejk]

I found a purse(with money in) when I was 9/10 years old.
Being something of a genius even then, I established the owners
address and hot-footed it around there. I must admit I was hoping
for a small,sweety sized, reward or at least a pat on the head.
This furious woman answered the door and screamed "I've been
Effing looking for that!" Snatched the purse and slammed the door in my face.
I think that might have been a catalyst for my misogyny.

[Sparkles62]

I found a bank card in Tesco's car park last week, handed it in to the customer service desk, someone must have dropped as they pulled their keys out. I didn't leave my details , just hope they got it back.

[Fusion5]

Just to clear a few points up, this person did not hand the wallet into the Building Society, but phoned the number on the back of the card to cancel it.

The worrying thing about this is, this person has my son's driving licence and as we live in a world of stealing people's identities, who knows where it will end up.