Scientists conduct a social experiment in dozens of countries to see who will return a found wallet, and if results vary based on the amount of cash in it. The results surprised them. Nearly everyone, everywhere, is more likely to return a cash-filled wallet than an empty one. Bill Whittle Now explores the reasons behind this near-universal virtue, and what impact the finding should have on our political discourse.
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Last year sometime, while walking home after my car broke down, I found a wallet with 165 bucks in it. Boy I could have used that. But? It wasn’t MINE.
Turns out it belonged to a student at a local college. Got it back to him by another person, and never heard back after.
Oh well.
Told the troops about it and made it ‘a moment’.
Bill Whittle, Nevertrumper. He coulda been somebody.
Daughter Dearest found a diamond ring. Took it to the police station. No one claimed it during the time period for lost items. I don’t remember if it was 6 months or a year. She was notified and given the ring.
They obviously didn’t do this experiment in South Chicongo.
I dropped a credit card once. Within a half hour of the loss (I hadn’t realized it yet), I got a call from my bank to inform me that card was found and destroyed, and that they’d send a replacement. Card finder didn’t leave a name. That person’s few minutes spent was a huge favor to me. I’m appreciative, but not surprised either.
If the Scientists try this in India, they will run out of wallets…….I’m down two so far
I found a wallet once. It had money, credit cards and the guy’s phone number and address in it. So I called him, and then drove over to his house (about 1 mi.) to drop it off. He was kind of flabbergasted that anyone would do that. Told him that I only looked closely enough at it to find his contact info – but the rest of the contents were pretty obvious. “It’s all there right were you dropped it!”
If I find a wallet, purse, briefcase, etc. that has some ID present I will attempt to get it back to the owner, regardless of how much or how little cash is contained therein. Loose money laying in the street…well, that’s a different matter.
🙂
Tower City Cleveland years ago a gal walked away from the ATM leaving her card in the machine and account open. I called out to her twice and she kept on going. She seemed preoccupied. I could have cleaned her account out. I did my own transaction and took her card inside the bank to one of the assistant managers.
Not my card, account or money.
I’d be hard pressed to name anything lower than a liar of thief. They’ll both occupy a special place in hell when the time comes.
Gin – there is a name for something lower than liars or thieves:
Clintons
If only the same (apparent) courtesy could be extended to beliefs and ideas we’d still have a country where those beliefs and ideals meant something
Would Benie Sanders or Joe Biden return your wallet (only after taking a 40% cut).
Bernie counts one for you, two for me. You’d be lucky to get 20% back.
On the other hand, Joe can’t count past three so you’d luck out with him!
recently found $230 in a bank envelope in a box of golf balls my late father had in a drawer dresser. immediately called his wife to tell her and will get it back to her shortly.
i thought it was funny. taught me a lesson though. When we go to clean out his house in the future we have to look in everything to make sure he didn’t have other stashes hidden away.
About 12 Years ago, a Couple walking on the Beach (Key Largo?) found
a Duffel Bag with $960 K Cash…turned it over to the Cops, Thinking
They’d get a reward…Cops said it was Drug Money..and kept it all.
Now that would be a Dilemma I could look forward to making a decision
about… 😉
I’d be paranoid that it contained a tracer and was a setup, or had traceable serial numbers, etc.
When I was assigned to Special Services at NAS Miramar in the Spring of 1973 and I was on duty at the base pool hall I found $300 once that a sailor had lost and by checking around to see if anyone lost that money was able to return to it a very grateful sailor who had lost that money. Believe me, $300 was a lot of money in 1973.
In the late 70’s, my dad and I went to Tiger Stadium to watch Mark “The Bird” Fidrych pitch. Walking from the car to the stadium, I found a $5 bill on the sidewalk. I picked it up and looked around. Everyone was walking to the stadium and as we continued to walk, I still was looking for someone who looked like they lost it. Never found the owner.
Had it been a larger denomination, I would have turned it in to the stadium lost and found.
One of my biggest failings in life and something I constantly work on is attributing noble intentions to something that on its face is clearly malevolent. Scott makes the case that those on the left are “people of goodwill” like this somehow mitigates the damage. First off, that is an assumption based on no evidence that I have found, and secondly, what is the old saying, The road to hell is paved with good intentions?
You can pick any bumper sticker issue of the left and the premise holds, as an example I will chose open borders. They (the left) know damn well that this is a ridiculous idea, unsustainable and a direct assault not only to the idea of a sovereign nation but to it’s citizens. We can not (nor should we allow) every poor person on the planet to move here and us provide for them. They know our present policies are inadequate and that the nation is being weakened but their loyalties are only to power, looking only as far as the next election. I really don’t know how you can describe these evil folks as people of goodwill.
Here in Philly, my sister left her wallet on a restaurant table at lunchtime. Within minutes while driving back to work, she got a call from her credit card company asking if she had tried to buy $300+ worth of items at Walgreens (across the street from the restaurant).
If the idiot had not been so greedy, they could have snagged about $100 worth of Walgreens merchandise without a block by the bank.