Researchers Placed 17,000 Wallets In Different Cities To See How Many People Would Return Them

There are a number of legal documents that either cannot be replaced or you have to jump through hoops and pay an extortionate amount of money for it. I'm just a student myself, but as I study abroad I had to haul a bunch of my papers (in original) with me. To replace them via the consulate would easily cost around £1000.

Someone stole my wallet a few years ago, I would have paid to have the wallet itself and my documents back.

I think maybe once i ruined a sting? once stopped in at a 24hour petrol station with my then bf, while he went to the men's I sat down at a table, upon which was a neatly folded newspaper. As soon as i picked it up i knew something was wring as it was heavy. There was a wallet inside the newspaper, choc full of cash with a few notes peeking out almost like on purpose. I was afraid to touch it as i didnt want to look like a thief, so i carried it by its corner up to the cashier of the gas station, asking if anyone had lost it. He laughed in surprise and said you must not be from around here (I wasnt). But when I sat down I looked at the cashier and he was talking to an officer who I swear wasn't there a moment ago. Then I noticed three more cops that must have been lurking or hiding. I still worry to this day I ruined some big sting plan of theirs, oopsie!

You gave your banking account info?

Kind of off topic but I recieved a package in the mail, my address was posted but no name. It had a bunch of financial graphs and future estimates yada yada. About three months later I received a phone call confirming my name and whether or not I'd recieved this package. When I said I had, they told me to destroy it. Obviously, I didn't lol. What do you think it was all about??? I still have it...

That's an interesting idea, but this study had nothing to do with the Police. The return rates were only based on emailing the owner.

You may be right about the police. I took my little boy for a walk, and we found an expensive watch and brought it to the police station. The officer got angry when I said that we wanted a receipt for the watch, and took a long while to produce one. And this was in the USA in an "affluent" area.

It's Ok, look at the percents at the bottom. So where Mexico's orange dot is at 22% return rate roughly, and red dot is at roughly 16-17% return rate. The other countries look different as the red dot(money) is returned more often (higher percentage) that orange dot(no money), and Mexico is other way around :) it's a weird graph

It's good you looked for clarification. Way better than not understanding but pretending you do.

It also goes in chronological order from the most honest countries (Sweden at the top of the list) to the least honest (China at the bottom of the list).