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Civic honesty around the globe

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209 points ojosilva | 2 comments | 20 Jun 19 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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praptak ◴[20 Jun 19 20:34 UTC] No.20237069[source]▶
I found a wallet in a parking lot of a mall in Warsaw, Poland. The customer info desk would accept it, citing "internal regulations". Maybe I should just have dropped the wallet on their desk and run away :)

(Owner found me, because the info desk at least wrote down my number)

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1. nosianu ◴[20 Jun 19 21:48 UTC] No.20237735[source]▶
Nuremberg, Germany: I once found a wallet with most of the cash already gone, but loads of cards and ID cards in it, and other stuff, pretty thick. I went to the police - and they were not exactly happy. They would have preferred to send me elsewhere but admitted they were the only ones open at the time. I can understand why they felt that way - it took well over an hour, every single tiny item in the wallet had to be catalogued, an arduous procedure for sure.
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2. BeeOnRope ◴[21 Jun 19 01:50 UTC] No.20239188[source]▶
How did you know "most of the cash [was] already gone"?