Cyclists' road fund

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Dave Kahn) said:

I've got into the Scrooge-like habit of stopping to pick up any coins
I see lying in the road. In the 2 months I've been cycling between
Twickenham and Sutton I've recovered a total of £2.43 in ready cash.
I've just blown some of this technically stolen money on a cheese
salad roll and a Yorkie bar. I have no intention of declaring it on my
tax return either. On second thoughts though, it might be amusing to
do so.

Can't you argue that it's a gift? For all you know, people threw it on
the road in the hope that you would find it...

Ian
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Dave Kahn said:

I've got into the Scrooge-like habit of stopping to pick up any coins
I see lying in the road. In the 2 months I've been cycling between
Twickenham and Sutton I've recovered a total of £2.43 in ready cash.
I've just blown some of this technically stolen money on a cheese
salad roll and a Yorkie bar. I have no intention of declaring it on my
tax return either. On second thoughts though, it might be amusing to
do so.

If you were to *loose* a few coins out of your pocket whilst cycling (eg you hit a
speed bump and a few bounce out of your pocket) would you claim tax *relief* on
the loss?

I picked up a crisp new £10 note from the gutter in York a while ago...

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Edgware.

Ian Walker said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Dave Kahn) said:

I've got into the Scrooge-like habit of stopping to pick up any coins
I see lying in the road. In the 2 months I've been cycling between
Twickenham and Sutton I've recovered a total of £2.43 in ready cash.
I've just blown some of this technically stolen money on a cheese
salad roll and a Yorkie bar. I have no intention of declaring it on
my tax return either. On second thoughts though, it might be amusing
to do so.

Can't you argue that it's a gift? For all you know, people threw it on
the road in the hope that you would find it...

Ian

Boo Radley

"Geraint Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Dave Kahn) wrote:

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Quoted message said:

I'd love to know how a set of car and house keys came to be in
the middle of a road in the middle of as nearly nowhere as you
can get in the south of England.

Stranger things do happen....... We were burgled, clearly by opportunist
kids as the only thing that went was my leather jacket from over the back of
a chair - complete with car and house keys in the pocket. Half way through
the process of getting new locks fitted and worring about the car, we got a
call from our "key fob tracer" company - a lady a few streets away had found
my keys in her front garden the moring after the bunglary (sic)

pk

I was going round a large roundabout late at night (Five Ways Birmingham). A
handbag fell off a passing car about 20metres in front of me. My first
thought who's going to stop safely to pick that up, then I realised that
with all my reflective gear on I was the best person for the job so I picked
it up.

Next problem: what to do with it? Before I'd re-mounted I saw a police
minibus approaching so I flagged it down and handed it in.

Dave Kahn said:

I've got into the Scrooge-like habit of stopping to pick up any coins
I see lying in the road. In the 2 months I've been cycling between
Twickenham and Sutton I've recovered a total of £2.43 in ready cash.
I've just blown some of this technically stolen money on a cheese
salad roll and a Yorkie bar. I have no intention of declaring it on my
tax return either. On second thoughts though, it might be amusing to
do so.

I have found

1x£50 note
1x£250 in envelope
1x£10 note
1x£120 in lost purse with no ID
1xPalm computer

Net gain £0.00

All went to charity when not claimed. Interestingly none of the finds
were in my area or when I was on duty.
PS:
It's technically not stolen money. You can only steal by finding if
there is a likelihood that the loser will apply to find the article or
sum at a Police Station or it is readily identifiable. Hence finding
and keeping a loose £10.00 note is not theft but finding and keeping an
addressed envelope containing a £10.00 note is.

Sniper8052

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Dave Kahn wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've just blown some of this technically stolen money on a cheese
salad roll and a Yorkie bar.

Quoted message said:

It's technically not stolen money. You can only steal by finding if
there is a likelihood that the loser will apply to find the article or
sum at a Police Station or it is readily identifiable.

Phew, that's a relief.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain