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got off the bus .. walked across the road .. in the road was someone wallet, picked it up, took it home, looked inside, £5, 2 credit cards and a drivers licence.

1st thought .. wow thats a fake id (if i was male) kit.

2nd thought ... that address is just round the corner, shall i .. hrm .. hell why not

so off i went .. rang the doorbell, no one answered but the lioghts were on.

posted it through the letter box, hope he still lives there.


am i honest or a fool? , i could have sold the cards and id and kept the £5.

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nice. assuming that the person still lives there.
(he probably didn't answer the door because he was going "ahhh I lost my wallet, omg!")

seriously, I left my wallet behind once, so I appreciate it when others do it :p

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you appear to be asking us to praise you because you managed to resist your temptation to comitt a crime.

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no ... i'm asking your opinion ..

even yours Yahwe

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You could have at least taken the cash with you.

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I would have ensured it got to the rightful owner. This fellow may live with people who he might not want having his wallet.

I would hope anyone would return the wallet given the circumstances. And as for "selling the cards"...to who? Do you deal in those sorts of circles often?

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i wouldnt know how to go about selling cards either.

You did the right thing, and most of us here would do the same. But theres always a niggling doubt in the back of your mind that says 'money iz gud' whebever some shit like this happens

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i think she is rather asking everybody to praise her because she has small regrets, and wants to push them aside.
its ok, u did the right thing. had it been more, doubting whether to give it back would have been understandable, but for 5pounds its worth it just for stroking your ego thiking "wow, am i a nice person or what?"

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I'd have used the £5 to buy the most expensive gigantic jiffy bag and card I could, and posted it back with a nice little note inside for him!

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I would have nicked the lisence and the money and given back the wallet - he'd have thought that his lisence and money were stolen and left and that I found the wallet for him. £5 isn't much, and he can easily replace the lisence and I could use it as an ID.

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f*cking thieves!

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I would have burnt it all. Down with capitalism and conformity!

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Is this a joke? I could understand bragging about your good nature if you returned a wallet contained £100+, or if returning it to the owner required trekking half way across town, but what, you refrained from stealing £5 and walked round the corner to post it through a letter box? It's hardly Jesus Christ feeding the 5000 is it?

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*license

Also arent driving licenses photographic cards?

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*licence.

Correcting people then getting it wrong is :crymeariver:

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They are now, but some people may still have the old paper style ones. If it was a paper one, no-one would believe that Kila was old enough to have one, and they are quite pricey to replace now because of the photograph

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look how silly you look

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You corrected his spelling and then spelt it wrong you ****ing mongchop :mad:

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no i'm not a nice person ...all the time but i do try .. well apart from when i'm in pa officer mode.

but thanks my ego doesnt need a stroke .. its fine as it is :P

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license isnt incorrect, its just an americanisation.

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we aren't americans

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Thank god!

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I live across the street from a park which has a levee around it. The levee hides the park from the view of the street. As a result it is a popular place for young people to go and party at night in good weather.

A few years ago, I got up one Sunday morn and looked out of my kitchen window and observed a wallet laying in the gutter. I went out and got the wallet and noted that it had $10 and identification in the wallet. There was even some sort of paper which gave a home phone number for the owner, a teenaged lad.

I phoned the number and explained to the lad that he must have been shit-faced to the point he lost his wallet and that I had recovered it, telling him that I had inventoried the contents and had found $10 plus his ID.

He didn't say thank you or anything else but rather blurted out, "Did they take anything?"

I asked him how I was supposed to know what should have been in his wallet but told him that, since the money was still in it, it seemed unlikely someone would have left the money in favor of stealing some other piece of his property.

Ungrateful bugger.

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If he didn't have some sort of way of knowing who phoned, you could just have hung up.

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It's not too hard to pass for someone else if you've got similar facial features and the right coloured hair. It's also usually quite dark at clubs etc so as long as you look slightly like them you can get away with it (I think)

Anyway, I need tips on how to nick my brother's driver's licence!

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How about you wait until you're legally old enough and don't put peoples livelihoods at risks by being a selfish twat

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We're not American you retard. Do you spell "colour" as "color", too?



Stop being such a troll :(

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oh god stop it

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I just want nod to admit he's wrong for once.

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Don't be so asinine.

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I was actually being serious. If a barman is caught selling alcohol to an underage person they face a fine of £1000, no questions. The licence holder also faces a much larger fine and their licence being revoked, which if you are a professional bar manager etc means you're out of a not just a job but a whole career since you'll never be allowed to hold an alcohol licence again.

I know teenagers will always want to try to buy alcohol illegally, hell, I even did it myself. But now I'm on the other side of the bar I realise what a twat I was being

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Actually like most adults you were right when you were a kid and youre wrong now :/

No pub is going to get closed becuase they sold a drink to a single 16 year old using fake ID (especially a driver's license), and even if they did, the blame would lie with the government rather than the drinker. Dont hate the playa hate the game.

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A place I used to frequent which sold Class A drugs for a number of years eventually closed down because the licencing department at the local authority kept hassling them about their sale of alcohol. :(

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Stop being a twat. You did it yourself at my age.
I spoke to a bouncer on this issue the other day - he knew that the driver's licence that I had used was fake but the only way to tell was by shining a UV light on it. He didn't have one with him and said that he wouldn't get in trouble if I used it and he didn't have the UV light as otherwise the licence looks 100% genuine.

Also - if I were to use the driver's licence of someone who looks very much like me (my older brother for example) and the barman couldn't tell that it's not me, are they still going to be fined?

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What if you used a jedi mind-trick to hide the fact you're underage. Or what if you're derren brown and go "this is a winning ticket"?

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If he had a reasonable suspicion that you were underage and using a fake ID but served you anyway, then yes, he would be in trouble

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I think you're ignoring the fact that this is a winning ticket.

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wouldn't you get into trouble for using fake id, and your brother if he knew you'd taken his / if he'd given it to you?

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Thats why my brother doesn't give me his Driver's Licence :(

I'm going to nick it.

If they are suspicious then they shouldn't serve me...

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I doubt he would be.

If that was true, then a guy who was 18 but looked really young wouldn't be able to get in anywhere, even if he had a legitimate ID (driving licence/passport).

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