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“Finders keepers, losers weepers” may be a popular saying, but the old adage won’t protect you in a court of law here.
One man learnt this the hard way when he was slapped with a $3,000 fine in court on Thursday (Sept 10) for keeping an iPhone he had found on a grass patch, CNA reported.
Tan Yiap Ming, 30, had come across the iPhone XR, which was worth about $1,000, on Dec 14 last year near Block 202 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, the court heard.
The phone had dropped out from its owner’s unzipped waist pouch just minutes before.
The owner, identified only as Wang, subsequently made a police report after discovering that his phone was missing.
Tan had not made any attempts to contact Wang, nor had he handed the phone over to the police before they traced it to his home in March this year.
He claimed that he had not surrendered the phone to the police as he had prior convictions and was afraid of going to a police station.
He had also tried and failed to unlock the phone, he said.
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