Finding things People Lost?

[ultrarunner]

Have you ever been hesitant to turn something in to the management of the location it was found because you didn’t think it would ever get back to the proper owner?

It has happened to family staying in nice Hotels...

Last time it was Newport Beach CA... went down for a wedding and had a great time... my cousin with with us and about 20 minutes after we checked out she remembered she left her clutch bag on the vanity counter... turned around and was in the room an hour later... bag was gone... housekeeping didn't know anything about it???

Very strange for it to just disappear from a locked room in less than an hour...

 

[smstonypoint]

I somehow managed to lose a key fob with the keys for my B2320 and my ZTR mower back in June. The key fob is orange and has the Statesville Ag and Turf logo. Let me know if you find it.

Steve

 

[ultrarunner]

Will do... can't emphasize enough how much help it is to have some way of identifying lost objects...

Even something as simple as Gym membership locker key was enough for me to return keys...

This morning I have a drawer full of keys... many have expensive remote key fobs for cars... not cheap to replace.

 

[mjarrels]

Found a $20.00 bill on **** river bridge leading into Olongapo City Philippines. Probably 20,000 people cross that bridge each day!

mark

 

[k0ua]

I found a hundred dollar bill laying in the middle of the street in Texarkana. Right in the middle, and that is the state line between AR and TX. A coworker stepped over it and I bent down and put it in my pocket. If it had been a wallet I would have returned it to the owner, but since the only name on the bill was Benjamin Franklin, and I know for a fact he is dead now, I figured it was mine.

I found two wrenches in a ceiling of a commercial building while pulling cable. They had been there for some time by the dust on them. I still have those too. But I would certainly return someones wallet or keys or ATM card if I could figure out who they belonged to or who to give them to. But tools left in a ceiling or money blowing in the wind on a street is mine by definition.

I have lost tools too. I hope someone is enjoying them. OH, I found a fishtape in a ceiling too.. I still have it also.

 

[PILOON]

Driving on a side road I spotted some tools on the pavement.
Wife thought I was nuts but I did retrieve a 3/8 ratchet, 6" extension and 2 sockets.

Buddy was renting out parking spots for local events when next morning he walked the area to clean up the mess the clients made.
He picked up a wad of cash in the grass, $3000.00 that nobody ever claimed.

Theory was that since it was a rock concert event the wad was probably a pushers take.

 

[k0ua]

Driving on a side road I spotted some tools on the pavement.
Wife thought I was nuts but I did retrieve a 3/8 ratchet, 6" extension and 2 sockets.

Buddy was renting out parking spots for local events when next morning he walked the area to clean up the mess the clients made.
He picked up a wad of cash in the grass, $3000.00 that nobody ever claimed.

Theory was that since it was a rock concert event the wad was probably a pushers take.

I wondered that about the bill I found in Texarkana. A pretty rotten drug infested place. In my opinion. If I never go back to Texarkana, it will be too soon.

 

[rox]

I hardly ever find anything that has been lost, my eyes just don't pick up on it. Years ago I was at a big Greek Church annual Greekfest, they brought in carnival rides & everything & I took my kids on a Tilt-O-Whirl and found a man's wallet with quite a bit of cash in it. I turned it into the off duty cops who were working the event. That must be 30 years ago now and I don't think I've ever found a single lost thing since.

 

[ovrszd]

My wife found a women's leather high lace boot in an old Gold/Silver mine site above treeline in Colorado a few years ago under the rotted floor boards of a bunkhouse. She put it back so someone else could enjoy finding it. She struggled with the find until I asked her what she thought a woman would be doing up there? She hesitated for moment with a thoughtful look on her face, then said "Ohhhhhhhh".

 

[/pine]

This past spring a friend of mine was working in his garden and he found half a gold necklace with gems that appears to have gotten cut and turned up with his tiller...it is high quality gold and marked "Tiffany & co."... just the gold part of what he has is worth about $500...he has been looking for the other half since...
He bought a cheap metal detector from a pawn shop with no luck...he asked me to bring the detector I have over and look for it...have not got over there yet...