Poles are very honest people according to this wallet return study. I wonder what can the low difference between money\no money tell?
Poles are very honest people according to this wallet return study. I wonder what can the low difference between money\no money tell?
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Also interesting Peru is the only country where the reporting rates are swapped (although they are so close it could just be statistical error)
It probably means Poles never have any money in their wallets🤣🤭 so it doesn’t matter!!
Likely the small difference is that most people have had similar upbringing as we’ve not had wealth differences for long enough
Am I understanding this correctly? More people worldwide report a wallet with money inside than without? This doesn’t make sense to me, why would you not bother reporting if there is no money inside but an ID, credit cards etc.? Or is it simplified and “money” also means documents?
One time I lost my wallet with 20 zł. The Police called me 3 months later – someone find it.
My 20 zl was there, whole covered with mold.
Thank you stranger!
I found a wallet once and I returned it so this is 100% correct.
EDIT: Funnily enough I told my parents about it and they only said “just don’t give it to the police they will take the money out and say it’s been empy. Look up that person on facebook or something and give it back in person.”
That’s not unique for my family I think. Trust in police is low in Poland.
I remember a situation from my early years as a kid. Someone borrowed 20groszy from a friend or something and the one who lent him the “dough” was waiting for quite a long time, since the other guy was stalling him.
So the “loanshark” told him if he doesn’t pay within a few days…He’ll fuck him up.
….yeah, the guy did not pay and the other fella stabbed him around 20 times just 10-15 metres away from the block I used to live at.
Ahhhh…Kielce in the 90s or very early 00s were definitely quite unique.
China is last, but I believe they don’t even use much money, just Alipay, Weibo and other electronic transfers. So wallets may be rare there, and wallets with money even more rare. (?). (obviously I’m not claiming they’re the most honest either 🙂 )
The left was not examined in this study – the rest is normal
I left my coat hanging on a coat stand in Warsaw with my wallet sticking out of the pocket. When I went back I was horrified at what I’d done and amazed that it was still there.
Once i’ve found a wallet, but someone came in with Police to retrieve it, the money was there but credit card was missing, and aparently it had over 1000zł stolen from it, i got searched by the Police and had to make official statement on Police station, so lots of time wasted.
Lesson learned, never pick up stray wallets
Remember that these who took the wallet were dishonest, desperate, or in rare cases combination of these, also probably other reasons. This also applies to Poles, but I am not talking about them in particular. All I’m talking is when we average reasons per country why someone have decided to not return a wallet, each country is a different soup of reasons.
When I find a wallet I take out 10% and attempt to give it back to the person. I mean it can do wonders and people even thank you for stealing their wallets!
I once lost my documents. Some guy called and didn’t accept the money nor the wine as thanks for returning.
In rich countires if u lose a wallet and there was no money in it, it’s no problem, no one even bothers, someone’s just gonna have to buy a new wallet. A wallet it’s not an expense.
It’s not the case in less wealthy countries where a new wallet may be an expense so it’s worth reporting even if it’s empty.
EDIT: Of course there may be exceptions to that as with everything.
A couple years ago, I was partying in Gdynia on the beach until the sunrise – I was totally drunk and lost my wallet.
When I returned home in the morning (I lived with my parents in a city neighbouring Gdynia), my wallet was already there waiting for me.
(Some taxi driver returned it – no money inside, but all documents were there).
Last year I found a wallet with around 600PLN in it in different currencies. The only documents in it were a foreign vehicle registration certificate and a Biedronka loyalty card. No address of phone number. Made a call to Biedronka to see if they can contact the owner of the card but no luck. By chance I found the car from the registration certificate but no owner in sight so I left a letter saying where he can find his wallet. A few hours later the owner came for his wallet and was so grateful he gave me 50PLN.
I once left my car’s fuel cap for a whole day on fuel station (I was letting my brother fill my car and he forgot it). So the next day I decided to get some more gas and I see no fuel cap. I drove like 40km to other gas station just to see my cap sitting right there where he left in. No one touched it.
Month ago i lost my wallet. I was terrified but 1 day later girl that found it instantly contact me by facebook and she wanted give me my wallet back so i think it could be true
Notice how there is no Japan on this list as conducting such study in there would be pointless
Not sure if this relates but I hate borrowing money, if I do I want to return every penny as soon as possible
That they know only taking out a part of the money is less sussy.
The Schwaben should read this. They think we’re a bunch of thieves😂
I am surprised about China. I would have thought communism would bring less of a need for theft.
Well that didn’t help me when I was drugged and raped in Poland
I remember I once found a lost credit card on a train, so when I got back home I carried it to the bank so they could deactivate it and maybe inform the owner (well, the cards have a text on them that tells you to deliver it to a bank if found anyway, so…)
Does this chart mean that mexicans steal more than give back