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Chill out..we only asked lol.
I hope it turns up though.

Thanks Rocky, apology accepted. I was under stress this morning, after a bad night, and worrying about the lad going to the hospital today.

Liz. She doesn't normally carry large amount of money around with her, she has none to.
It was money she had withdrawn to put towards his laptop, and she had put her purse in the car after having taken her debit card out of her purse to avoid carrying her purse with the money in it around the supermarket.
It would appear it must've slipped out of her bag when she lifted it out of the car. The sum total was £255. Thankfully she still has her debit card.
HER CAR HAS BEEN STRIPPED, THE SHOPS HAVE BEEN CALLED, THE CAR PARK HAS BEEN SWEPT TWICE AND NOTHING HAS BEEN FOUND. I HOPE THIS CLEARS THE FACT THAT SHE HAS DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO FIND IT. THE POLICE TOLD HER NOT TO HOLD HER BREATH FOR IT BEING HANDED IN.

You never know how people's minds work!
Someone who is really hardup or never had £200 in their purse might think on finding the wallet that if someone has £200 in cash with them they are wealthy, and it is pocket money, they don't know it was for a gift, and to them it might seem heaven sent! I am surprised that with being a working woman with presumably a bank account your daughter keeps a large amount of cash in her wallet, and didn't leave it or put it in the bank and buy the laptop with her debit card.

Let's hope it turns up anyway. It could be that it fell out of her bag as she got out of the car near work and someone picked it up, who knows?


Lizx

yes i can see where your coming from ann
its just so sad maybe if they stopped to think if it was theirs would they want someone to hand it in or keep it as the person that lost it may be in the same boat as themselves

A sign of the times too with so many desperate to buy family presents and out of work.

Hi everyone
what are the chances of it getting handed it especially with the cash in it and not everyone is as honest as maybe we would be which is sad

Yes, I realised she was saying give it time but I thought she could have put it a bit more politely than 'give me a break' She could have realised that Vicky was really upset about her daughter and grandson losing this money. And the example Rocky gave was not the same, she was talking about stolen and disgarded purses so the people who had lost them might well have expected them to be handed in when they were originally 'lost' not when they were eventually found.

Many years ago we were on holiday in Scotland, on a huge and quite remote very long sandy beach. My daughter, then aged around 13 saw something glint on the soft sand above the tide line. She went to look and found a diamond ring the solitaire diamond was very big. She took it in to the police station when we went shopping in the nearest town, some thirty miles away. Shortly afterwards she got a letter of thanks from the couple whose engagement ring it was, and a £25 reward. They had already claimed the insurance and bought another ring, but of course this one was the one with the real sentimental value...........it occurs to me to wonder whether in those circumstances the couple would have returned the insurance money..........just a thought.
Eileen
birth name

Sorry to hear this.
You never know it might turn up yet. It might not even have been stolen,could it have fallen out her bag into the car...down the side,in the boot maybe in a coat pocket etc.
Did she have her name and address in the purse?

Marion

Trouble is I know there are also dishonest people around. I once left a carrier back containing newly bought bedding and underware from M&S in a ladies loo in Cheltenham (that so called upmarket town). I went back after about 20 minutes, it was not handed in to security card or local shops (It was in a shopping mall) and that was the last I saw of it.

Island, if Rocky's post has been misread how do you transcribe it then please.

Sharron I have read some things on here but that is just jaw dropping and shocking!

I travel my county stock taking for a large retailer. The staff keep valuable lost property in the safe if it is lost. Hoping the owner will return. It is mostly creadit cards.
I once found a charm I don't know if it was gold but it could have had sentimental value. This was handed to the manager.
Another time in our local shopping centre loo's, someone had left a purse in the cubicle. I looked in it for ID, and saw lots of cards and a huge amount of money it made me panic! I handed it to a security guard. He took my details. Later that day a lady turned up at my house to thank me. ( She offered me a fiver which I turned down).
TTL their are honest people about, I hope your daughters purse turns up x

I once sat in the front room of a couple I knew. Their son, who worked in a greengrocer's shop was describing how an old lady had left her purse in the shop and he had taken two hundred pounds from it and told her that it was empty when handed in to the shop by somebody else when she came looking for it.

The father's reaction to this.
"Weren't there any credit cards in it?"

A few years ago, while out in the snow, dog walking, a set of keys was dropped, these had on the ring the dog tags from our previous pets, complete with addresses,
panicking a little I changed the front door cylinders, and got new keys.

THREE weeks later some children came to the door, with the complete key rings,
I understand your concerns, TTL and its'easy for me to say, but give it a bit of time, there ARE honest people around,
Bob

Following a car accident a couple of years ago near a supermarket car park my OH and I helped the gent home as he wouldn't go to hospital when the ambulance arrived. He wanted to get home to his disabled wife. An hour later when we parked in the said supermarket car park we saw a wallet on the ground.
We immediately took it to the local police station who then contacted the owner in our presence. It was the gent who had been involved in the accident an hour earlier and he hadn't noticed it was missing. We would never dream of keeping something even if there was no money in it. It's the sentimental items such as photo's that are important.
My son also had his wallet with all his bank cards and money still in it returned after leaving it on the bus and the bus company made the effort to return it.
Di

Vicky I have just noticed that you say it was only as she was leaving work that she noticed it missing. Why does she then think she dropped it in the supermarket car park? Is there any possibility that it was stolen while she was in work?

Liz has given such excellent advice about searching for the lost purse.

I have just remembered; when I used to work in a small shop we often had a bit of lost property in the cupboard.

We advertised a lost purse in the shop window once; quite a number of girls came in looking for their lost purses but we only gave it back to the person who could describe it (colour, etc.).

I would also search the car park. In this weather, with all the fallen leaves, it could be lying around, unnoticed.

It would be wonderful if she found it.

Sending best wishes

Janet

WELL BLOODY DONE FOR YOU THEN ROCKY!!!!!
AREN'T YOU THE LUCKY ONE!!!
MY DAUGHTER WOULD'VE HANDED IT IN IMMEDIATELY, AS WOULD OTHER HONEST PERSON. WHAT YOU TRYING TO GET AT.
I'M UPSET ENOUGH WITHOUT IDIOTS LIKE YOU TRYING TO STIR THINGS.

THANKS ANN & LIZ.
LIZ, SHE WAS ON A DAY OFF ON MONDAY, AND WASN'T OUT ALL DAY, AND ASSUMED IT WAS IN HER BAG.
IT WASN'T TIL SHE WAS LEAVING WORK YESTERDAY THAT SHE REALISED IT WAS AWAY.
SHE'S TOOK THE CAR TO BITS INSIDE AND THE BOOT, AND CHECKED THE HOUSE BUT NO SIGN OF IT.

Vicky, it's awful that your daughter has lost her purse, I don't know how she didn't notice before, I use my purse every day for something or other. Has she actually been back to the supermarket carpark and asked the trolley people? It might nudge their conscience if they picked it up and didn't hand it in or it might have been handed to someone and they haven't passed it on to the office at the store or it could still be somewhere under a parked car or something? I would be back retracing my steps the minute I noticed it gone. If she lost it in the street it could have been handed in to the nearest shop, lots of people don't take stuff to the police these days, just leave whatever it is at the nearest store. If she went back along her route she could ask at the shops etc on the way.

O.h. went shopping after work on Saturday, came home and couldn't find his debit card. He rang the shop and they hadn't got it, so he cancelled it immediately and has to wait ten days for a new card to arrive. He went into the shop again on Monday and must have mentioned it, and they had it so obviously there was a time delay involved with it being found/handed in and getting it to the relevant office.

Hope the purse turns up, did she have other things of value in there like credit cards etc? It's such a pain to have to cancel everything, and sad she didn't have insurance cover too

Lizx

Rocky Mountain shy If somebody had found it they would have handed it in so I don't know what you are saying. Your Mum handed those purses in as soon as she found them but the person/people who stole them didn't. The comparison has to be between your Mum and whoever found the purse and your Mum handed it in before two days I'm sure. Did those purses still have money in them, I am guessing not. And yes I would condemn anyone who found a purse containing all that money and photos of two young children who didn't make an immediate effort to hand it in to either the supermarket or at least phone the police and say they had it.

its no wonder she is in a state my heart goes out to her its such a lot of money to lose and her being a single mum to couldnt have been easy for her to save that money for her wee lads xmas