Lets take a poll on the good nature of SC
2/3 of people return lost wallets with phone numbers inside
I have stolen every wallet ive found in the past 2 decades, including wallets that belonged to my neighbor and choldhood friends i hadnt seen in a few years.
If you found a wallet would you return it and why?
I feel like my returning it would be contingent on where I'd found it and other miscellaneous details. For instance, if I saw that the wallet had Filipino money in it more primarily than American money, I might see returning it as more complicated from assuming a cultural or language barrier (which is funny, as my wallet has some foreign money in it too). Realistically speaking, I could see myself just not picking up the wallet in the first place to find out, a figure we can't account for in this man's... "Science".
It'd be a curious thing to see who'd steal the money if the wallets had cash worth more than around $10, not to mention credit cards or a social security card. He made the wallet barely worth stealing from, and I could see some just throw the wallet away.
The guy's too focused on the sentimentality of the wallet itself, plus a sample size of 10 people in 20 states isn't the greatest cultural sample, considering the US itself. The "Secret Footage" ideas are pretty nice though.
I guess I'd say "Nah" from probably never picking up the wallet.
TVTropes || Refusal of the Call. 
Lisa: I know it's hard, Gary. But you're still the only hope to stop these newer terrorists.
Gary: Why me?! Why am I the only one?!
Lisa: Because you're the one with the power to—
Gary: WELL I DON'T WANT THE FUCKING POWER! I don't want the guilt, I don't want the shame, and I don't want the responsibility!
— Team America: World Police
yep
one time I found 40 dollars on the ground in elementary school (that is A LOT of money to a small child lol)
and thought I wanted to buy lots of cookies with it at the bake sale
I turned it into the lost and found and it turns out someone had dropped it and was looking for it (they had no idea it had been turned in so they weren't lying lol)
and yeah... always return the wallet of course!
one time I found 40 dollars on the ground in elementary school (that is A LOT of money to a small child lol)
Was it a lot for you as a small child though?
and thought I wanted to buy lots of cookies with it at the bake sale
I turned it into the lost and found and it turns out someone had dropped it and was looking for it (they had no idea it had been turned in so they weren't lying lol)
and yeah... always return the wallet of course!
When you're in school your environment of people's much smaller, having you held significantly more liable for the more localized misdeeds. The name in the wallet in such a case may even lead you to someone you already know in this case.
Finding it in some random parking lot meanwhile? It's pretty different.
the wallet, sure
I could imagine you calling the guy who lost his wallet on some throwaway burner phone (bought with his money) to laugh at him.
...assuming it's a him of course.
Turncoat said:
When you're in school your environment of people's much smaller, having you held significantly more liable for the more localized misdeeds. The name in the wallet in such a case may even lead you to someone you already know in this case.
not for me lol, i stole from everybody in elementary school. i would fish through my bag as everyone left for recess and wait for the classroom to empty. then i would steal things that i liked and that people had an emotional attached to, sometimes just to throw it out in a random garbage can. i loved going through other peoples backpacks
