Lost items—Do you like to see them found

[John105]

Today there was an Apple Watch on my machine at the gym. I was hoping the owner would come back and get it, figuring I’d be agitated if I lost one (don’t have one but have left a phone).

I asked a few people if it were theirs, nope.

So I decided it’s finders keepers.

J/k I left it at the front desk and hope the owner gets it. I would think they can track it?

Exact same thing happened to me 3 weeks ago with eyeglasses. Some guy actually moved them to a window ledge where I would have never found them. Because when I went back a man was on the machine and when I asked, he pointed. Not sure what he was thinking but it was apparent he wasn’t concerned with the owner getting them back.

We’re all different. I’m not perfect but I tend to try to walk in others’ shoes. I once found a dog and drove him back to his house per his tag. Nobody was around but I’d like to think it made someone happy. The end.

 

[Jetronic]

I'm a bus driver, and once after serving the airport, a high school student brought a purse someone forgot. There was a cellphone (unlocked but with a foreign sim that didn't work), plane tickets, passports and 650 euro in cash in there.

I tried to reach some of the contacts in the phone hoping they could let the owner know the purse was found and save, but couldn't. Informed my boss who also tried and failed and eventually it just went to lost and found which is what I officially had to do. No idea what happened after that.

 

[Pew]

Yea I have no need for anybody else's stuff. I've handed phones to people who left them on the train, or I left the phone at the police station, or headphones at the gym to the front desk.

 

[ripcord]

As a kid, I had my wallet fall out of the pocket of a pair of torn jeans. It had 3 paychecks and several hundred dollars cash in it. I got a call from the local police department the next day as well as a message on my answering machine from the guy who found it. There are good people out there.

 

[Wrenchturner44]

I am strong believer in "what goes around comes around". I try to help others where I can or share knowledge, advice or items where appropriate. I am not looking for payback, but I will gladly accept good Karma if it comes back to me.

I saw a video the other day of a Tesla getting keyed by some "Karen". Her actions were caught on the Tesla cameras. I sure hope she got her due for the inexcusable abuse of someone else' property.

 

[Oillover]

While I enjoy helping others find missing items, I really couldn't care if they appreciate the gesture or not.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Archie Bunker and Mike accidentally locked themselves in a storage room in Archie’s bar with just a window to the sidewalk level.

Mike wanted to yell for help.

Archie shushed him and said you don’t want let everyone know we’re locked in here. They’ll come in and clean out the till.

Mike said “ Archie, maybe some honest, decent human being might hear us and do what’s right.”

Archie, in his best sarcastic Brooklyn accent says “ In New York? “

 

[gman2304]

About 5 years ago my wallet, baseball cap, and a few other small items fell out of my small bag on the back of my motorcycle. I stopped to get gas about 3 miles from home before I noticed it was gone. Back tracked and walked about a mile along the road but never found it. Went back home and my wife spent about 4 hours on the phone on a Sunday morning cancelling credit cards. Had about $150 in cash in it as well. 3 years pass and a Facebook inquiry asks if I lost my wallet on the aforementioned day. I never replied and just let it go. The finder could have dropped the wallet in my mail box because they had my license, address, and other forms of ID but never bothered. If the finder had done that, they could have kept the cash no questions asked as it would have been a lot easier than replacing my SS card, Credit cards, insurance cards etc. As a side note, About 50 years ago my sons and I were doing some fielding exercises at a local little league baseball field and they found a baseball glove behind a dugout. We left it on the first base line fence and it was gone the next day, hopefully to its rightful owner.

 

[John105]

I am strong believer in "what goes around comes around". I try to help others where I can or share knowledge, advice or items where appropriate. I am not looking for payback, but I will gladly accept good Karma if it comes back to me.

I saw a video the other day of a Tesla getting keyed by some "Karen". Her actions were caught on the Tesla cameras. I sure hope she got her due for the inexcusable abuse of someone else' property.

In the 90’s in Montreal, my buddy and I ate at our favorite, Chenoy’s 25h in Brossard.

The check was $23, buddy says how much should I leave? I say, leave $40, everything was excellent. He goes, 40 for 23, you sure? I say it works out to $25 USD, and think about what we just ate including tip. It’s worth $25. He agreed.

We’re downtown and omg! Buddy can’t find his wallet!

We rush back to Chenoy’s. Maitre D is smiling, and holds up his wallet. Says if you didn’t come back we’re gonna mail it to you.

We both felt it was karma.

 

[John105]

While I enjoy helping others find missing items, I really couldn't care if they appreciate the gesture or not.

I agree with you, at least where I drive in Philly, when I let someone in, driving, they don’t give a thank you wave. Doesn’t matter I did the right thing.

By the same token where I live in the suburbs, someone lets me in when technically they shouldn’t.

 

[Hall]

I would think they can track it?

Yes

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

I believe everything has its use or its place in the world. Probably why I'm a bit of a pack rat with some things.

Seeing lost personal items kicking around makes me kind of sad, regardless of what it is.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Many years ago I was driving hwy 9 through the mountains to the Santa Cruz beach. I stopped by the side of the road for a bio break (drank a lotta Bud back then) and walked about 20 feet into the trees. I saw a wallet. Turns out I knew the street very well, in Santa Clara not far from where I lived. Drove there later that week to return the wallet. Turned out to be the family of my ex-girlfriend's best friend.

Shoulda bought a lotto that day...

 

[fdcg27]

I put myself in the shoes of someone who has lost something.
I'd want to get it back and I'm sure they do as well.
It's only fair to treat others as you'd like to be treated.
Plus, keeping someone's lost stuff is bad karma.

 

[alarmguy]

I asked a few people if it were theirs, nope.

So I decided it’s finders keepers.

J/k I left it at the front desk and hope the owner gets it. I would think they can track it?

It depends.
If the watch is a model that has its own cell unit -then it’s no different than a cell phone and the owner of the watch using his iPhone can use the Find My feature on his phone to find the watch.

If it doesn’t have a cell unit, you’re pretty much out of luck unless the watch is on the Wi-Fi network where it’s located, then the person who lost the watch using the Find My feature on his iPhone, can find the location of that Wi-Fi network.

But one thing to know, as long as the owner did activate the Find My feature on his phone, which I would guess almost everybody does it automatically will lock that watch, and there is no way to unlock/reset it without the user password and user ID

 

[AutoMechanic]

Here is the way I see it if it was mine I’d want someone to return it so I’d do the same. Unless it’s money then respectfully I’m keeping that because anyone could say the money was theirs and it actually not be.

 

[andrew_j]

I find more people turn in items then not. World is a good place generally .

 

[Cheetah-kins]

Yeah no decent person is going to just keep someone else's item they found, it's as simple as that. We've all been there where we lost something VERY important and are starting to panic - keys, phone, pets, etc. Such a relief when you get it back. I've done it dozens of times over my life, and had my butt saved many times by the kindness of others as well. Fortunately most people are very good about this.

I wanted to tell a funny story about a wallet I found while crossing the street a few years ago in the city we lived in at the time. It had a couple hundred bucks in it, ID, cards, etc. In other words something very bad to lose. Anyway looking at the driver's license I realized the young guy who lost it lived around 5 miles from us, so my wife and I drove it over to his house.

I told my wife to ring the door bell and give it to the guy or his family while I waited in the car. So she went up, dropped it off and when she came back she said the father was super mad that the kid had lost such an important item and to teach him a lesson wanted us to take the money as a reward. We passed on that of course but what was funny is he also said the kid and his friend were out as we spoke looking for the wallet on foot.
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So.. driving home about halfway back we came up on two young guys slowly walking along the shoulder, eyes glued to the road. Figured it had to be him. We stopped the car and said 'hey did you lose your wallet?' And of course he said yes, so we told him to head back to his house, that we had dropped it off. He was so elated, looked like he was gonna cry honestly. We were both super glad we made the effort to bring it back to him.

 

[ripcord]

Yeah no decent person is going to just keep someone else's item they found, it's as simple as that. We've all been there where we lost something VERY important and are starting to panic - keys, phone, pets, etc. Such a relief when you get it back. I've done it dozens of times over my life, and had my butt saved many times by the kindness of others as well. Fortunately most people are very good about this.

I wanted to tell a funny story about a wallet I found while crossing the street a few years ago in the city we lived in at the time. It had a couple hundred bucks in it, ID, cards, etc. In other words something very bad to lose. Anyway looking at the driver's license I realized the young guy who lost it lived around 5 miles from us, so my wife and I drove it over to his house.

I told my wife to ring the door bell and give it to the guy or his family while I waited in the car. So she went up, dropped it off and when she came back she said the father was super mad that the kid had lost such an important item and to teach him a lesson wanted us to take the money as a reward. We passed on that of course but what was funny is he also said the kid and his friend were out as we spoke looking for the wallet on foot.
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So.. driving home about halfway back we came up on two young guys slowly walking along the shoulder, eyes glued to the road. Figured it had to be him. We stopped the car and said 'hey did you lose your wallet?' And of course he said yes, so we told him to head back to his house, that we had dropped it off. He was so elated, looked like he was gonna cry honestly. We were both super glad we made the effort to bring it back to him.

The memory and feelings from that event is worth way more than the contents of a wallet

 

[Cheetah-kins]

The memory and feelings from that event is worth way more than the contents of a wallet

Yep. And on the opposite end of that my wife brought her (then) brand new iPhone to a club we went to a few years ago. So we're out on the dance floor and it's very loud with bright strobe lights and she's holding the phone to take pics now and again. I told her to please put it away because the place was packed and if she dropped it, it would probably get smashed. Sure enough 2 minutes later she gets bumped by someone and we watch it fly to the floor and then.. vanish. The strobe's threw off our sight. We looked all around but couldn't find it. She was pretty bummed. Anyway I went up and asked the bartender if anyone had turned in a phone and he turned around and handed me her phone, some kind individual had turned it in moments earlier. Big relief, lol.