Finding things People Lost?

[dmccarty]

I have found a few things over the years but the most memorable was almost 40 years ago, I found a trifold nylon wallet washed up on the beach in the middle of nowhere with almost 2000$ in it. It hadn't been floating around too long and I could make out the drivers license, that was just getting waterlogged. I was on a couple week crabbin trip so it was a while before I got back to town and tracked down the owner, who had given it up for lost. The cheap bum didn't give me a reward but I did get a beer and a 30 year friendship

I do hope you remind him frequently that he is a cheap bum! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Good story. I used to use trifold nylon wallets too.

What are the odds of find a wallet on the beach in the middle of no where AND being able to return it to the owner? :confused3::shocked:

Later,
Dan

 

[oosik]

Now-a-days if you encountered the same situation - tungularafishcamp - prudence would advise you simply turn the wallet over to the local police. I don't think I would want to track down a person with $2000 in their wallet - let LEO handle that.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

I do hope you remind him frequently that he is a cheap bum! :laughing::laughing::laughing: Good story. I used to use trifold nylon wallets too. What are the odds of find a wallet on the beach in the middle of no where AND being able to return it to the owner? :confused3::shocked: Later, Dan

Unfortunately he is gone now but yes he got lotsa razzin for that and a couple other things!

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Now-a-days if you encountered the same situation - tungularafishcamp - prudence would advise you simply turn the wallet over to the local police. I don't think I would want to track down a person with $2000 in their wallet - let LEO handle that.

Those were different times here in kodiak, late 70's king crab was booming, everyone had lotsa cash. Plus credit cards were not near so prolific so traveling was either cash or travelers checques or both.

 

[drssg]

All I seem to find are dogs and cats. They show up at our place, and no one ever wants them back.

We had a horse show up once. Fortunately, the neighbors were looking for him and were grateful to get him back. I was *really* not interested in that farm addition!

 

[Wagtail]

All I seem to find are dogs and cats. They show up at our place, and no one ever wants them back.

We had a horse show up once. Fortunately, the neighbors were looking for him and were grateful to get him back. I was *really* not interested in that farm addition!

I had that happen a couple of months ago. I was outside having my morning coffee when I noticed an extra horse in the front open paddock, my two TBs were in their closed paddock (#5, if you're keeping track) and were non-fussed. I shut the open gate and inspected the 'new' horse, who was rugged = a black mare.

Short story is that my neighbour knew this escape artist and that she was a Riding for the Disabled horse... from a couple of miles away. She'd had to traversed a good section of two-lane 100kph road to reach my place, fortunately there's practically no traffic during the night. She got home fine later that morning.

 

[bunyip]

We had a large grey turn up once, turns out it was from up the road about 1km and got out and ran down to our place and stood at the gate, a passing tradie thought it was ours and opened the gate and let it in.
We found the owners the next day.
It got out a few times and got into a paddock next to ours, the owner who is quite erubescent at the best of times looked like he was about to erupt came in screaming and swearing at me and told me to get my ######## horse off his land or he would call the ranger and have it removed, I politely told him it wasn't mine and walked away, he went a few more shades of red and purple then stormed off.
I called the owners who came and got it before Mr Angry did something stupid.

 

[smstonypoint]

We had a large grey turn up once, turns out it was from up the road about 1km and got out and ran down to our place and stood at the gate, a passing tradie thought it was ours and opened the gate and let it in.
We found the owners the next day.
It got out a few times and got into a paddock next to ours, the owner who is quite erubescent at the best of times looked like he was about to erupt came in screaming and swearing at me and told me to get my ######## horse off his land or he would call the ranger and have it removed, I politely told him it wasn't mine and walked away, he went a few more shades of red and purple then stormed off.
I called the owners who came and got it before Mr Angry did something stupid.

Thanks. I added to my vocabulary today.


Steve

 

[KYErik]

Late one night, two 400 lb steers jumped the electric fence and got in with our herd of 25 cows + 20 or so calves. One was black (like the rest of our calves). The other was a gray color and had an ear tag- that's the only reason we knew there were "intruders". They hung around eachother so that's how we knew the black one was not ours.

We saw their tracks on a muddy road so we knew they came from the south. We called around to all the neighbors with cattle within 2 miles but herd nothing back. I posted a note on our front and back doors with my phone number in case the owner drove by and noticed the gray one. After a few days, I called the sheriff's office to report them and to ask if anyone was looking for them. A few weeks later (after still hearing nothing) I called the sheriff's office back to see if it was proper to just keep them if they were not claimed (it was winter and they were eating hay with the rest of the cows). A few more days passed when our crop insurance agent called and said he had been missing two calves for several weeks. He had some problems with dogs chasing his calves and apparently the dogs got the calves really spooked- the calves came from a pasture about 3 miles north of our farm so they had made a big circle. We trapped the calves in the barn for a few days and fed them square bales until the owner's hired hand brought a trailer to pick them up. He offered me $30 and I did take it since we had been feeding them for 3 weeks and it did take a few tries to trap them in the barn.

A few months later, my wife and I were on vacation in Durango Colorado and I found $10 cash and a lighter on the pavement beside our parking spot at the Holiday Inn (probably dropped by the person who had been parked beside us). The 20 something guy at the front desk looked at me like I was crazy when I explained I found it and handed it over to him.

 

[k0ua]

Thanks. I added to my vocabulary today.


Steve

Yep, same here, That ranks right up there with "embuggerance". Those Aussie use some interesting words. I have to look them up, mind you, but interesting all the same..