Once I was collecting payment for parking for a golf event. Cost was like $5. Guy accidentally had a $100 bill stuck to the $5 bill. I did the whit thing and gave it back. Kinda hurt TBH being that I was a poor college kid.
I found out very quickly that the best way to deal with kids doing the right thing and handing in money they found on my worksites was to give them a high five and tell them to enjoy the money.
At shopping centres in Vic, the money goes to lost and found, then to a cop shop then 'if the owner hasnt claimed the random $50/$100 note found in the middle of nowhere then the kid can come get it back'... by which time the shift who paid for lunch with it then has to do a whip around and replace it.
Best reward i could give those kids was call them absolute bloody legends, thanks for letting us know, and (they) keep the money.
A full wallet/purse different story unfortunately but id always take it to a desk somewhere and go through it in front of someone, theres always a membership card or something in them you can ring up and tell someone to get in touch with the member and come get their shit... french embassy down here somehow managed to get in touch with a passport holder once dont know how they did that unless they were government workers.
I had someone intercept one of my rent checks a few years ago. He called claiming "some kids" found it in the street and had opened it. I think he was shooting for that angle, like I would give a reward for mail fraud or something.
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