Re: What would you do?
 

When you find something the law requires you to make reasonable enquiries to try and locate the original owner. If you found a tenner lying in the road, held it above your head and said "anybody lost this" then I suspect that you might get quite a few people responding, so that wouldn't be reasonable. If on the other hand you found it on the floor in your office where there are only two or three other people about and you said "anybody lost any money" then that would be.

In this case the couple should have reported their find to the police and just told the shop that if the owners of the suitcase were to come in asking about it they should be told to go to the local police station. That way every eventuality would have been covered (drug dealers wouldn't have gone to the police and they wouldn't have been able to beat the details out of the shop keeper)) and their actions would have been reasonable. 28 days later (in UK law) they would have been able to keep the money if not claimed.

Re: What would you do?
 

It's only $100,000 Ozmalian dollars, which is what, £3.17?

Re: What would you do?
 

Perfectly reasonable.

They should put something in that law to encourage people to hand things in, as it stands there is only the stick... More people would be honest if it was some deal like "hand it in, and if it's claimed you keep 10%".