If you found something, how thorough would you be to try and return it?

[sam_gordon]

Dh & I explained to our son that we would place an ad in the city's lost and found section of the newspaper.

Placed ad in paper

Placing an ad in the paper would never occur to me. I'd never think to look at the ads if I lost something.

 

[PollyannaMom]

...I guess they wanted to make sure it wasn’t me

Yikes! Glad she got it back, though.

 

[EscalatorKid]

I've gone to far lengths to find the owner of stuff. I would want someone to return my lost stuff, so I want to find their stuff.

I found a cash-out ticket at a casino worth around $700. I picked it up and I asked but I wouldn't show the amount. A lady nearby told me the amount and I gave it to her.

My mom and I found an expensive MacBook laptop in the middle of the street near my bestie's house. I opened it up, went through an email account to find a name, Googled the phone number, and called it. I found out it belonged to someone living half a block away that accidentally had it on the roof of their car and drove off.

I found a bank bag of largely worthless trinkets (Neat Canadian coins, dice, small figurines, etc.) I put it out on multiple FB pages for my local cities, but never got a response on it. I figured a kid was missing his "treasures" and I felt bad. I still have the bag but haven't sorted it out or gotten rid of anything.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Three years ago, someone in the neighborhood told me there was a rabbit running loose. I was able to catch him and take him home. I posted his picture on Facebook and NextDoor and asked if anyone had lost him. No one responded. I asked a rabbit rescue Facebook group for advice. I was told he was most likely a dumped Easter bunny. He was a fun little Easter toy, but the kids and parents got tired of him after realizing how much work and attention rabbits require. He was found near a baseball field where people had dumped rabbits before. One person on the rescue group warned against posting signs. Someone might get an impulse to claim him, only to dump him again. There are also people out there looking for free snake food!

So, I didn't look very hard for the owners. I took him to a vet to be scanned, but he wasn't chipped. So, we kept him and named him Biscotti. He's the guy in my profile pic. He is spoiled and happy and pretty much owns the house!

 

[wgeo]

My daughter left her phone in a dressing room at Target 2 days after she got it - someone turned it in, very nice.

I'm surprised at the pretty much accepted assumption from most of this thread that if you turn something like cash into a store the associates are just going to steal it? Where does that idea come from? How is it possible that every poster here on the dis is truthful and honest and yet we assume that every retail clerk would steal given the opportunity? Doesn't make sense to me that we assume the worst about the people around us. At the bare minimum you have to realize that almost every single retail store would have the entire transaction of you turning it over on camera, not likely someone wants to lose their job over a few bucks.

 

[Erzengel]

Seeing a lot of lost phones, not sure how it with other phones, but I do recommend that people do the Find my iPhone app. Even when I misplace it in my house, it's a lifesaver.

 

[macraven]

I have that app and have been told it is great

My problem is my cell is the only phone in the house

Which means can’t use it to find my phone

Lol

 

[wenrob]

I have that app and have been told it is great

My problem is my cell is the only phone in the house

Which means can’t use it to find my phone

Lol

You can log in to iCloud on a computer and use it.

 

[descovy]

My absolute pet peeve is on my community facebook page. Someone will say "I found these keys at the Safeway on 14th st" Let me know if they are yours.

#1... not everyone in town is on this facebook page.
#2... if that person tries to retrace their steps, they are out of luck, because you removed the item.

I don't understand the idea of taking an item home with you to find the owner. Turn it in to lost and found. Or in case of a public area try to leave it where you found it.


Now, of course, when they say, I found this wallet at safeway and took it home. Let me know if it's yours. Well that person is a crook. But the mundane keys, sunglasses, toddler shoes, etc... leave it where you found it, or turn it in to lost and found. Taking it home and posting on a closed facebook group isn't nearly as helpful as you think it is.

 

[Floridaman999]

Depends on what it is that I found. I don't think I've ever found a lost item so I really can't say for sure.

 

[Skellingtonj]

My absolute pet peeve is on my community facebook page. Someone will say "I found these keys at the Safeway on 14th st" Let me know if they are yours.

#1... not everyone in town is on this facebook page.
#2... if that person tries to retrace their steps, they are out of luck, because you removed the item.

I don't understand the idea of taking an item home with you to find the owner. Turn it in to lost and found. Or in case of a public area try to leave it where you found it.


Now, of course, when they say, I found this wallet at safeway and took it home. Let me know if it's yours. Well that person is a crook. But the mundane keys, sunglasses, toddler shoes, etc... leave it where you found it, or turn it in to lost and found. Taking it home and posting on a closed facebook group isn't nearly as helpful as you think it is.

I’ll never understand people that find things in target and what have you and they take it home. And post “found an item in target message me if it’s yours”. Turn it into customer service.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Just this weekend I found a wallet with ID, credit cards and a few dollars cash. It was on a busy street in downtown Detroit, so nowhere to turn it into. I’ve reached out to the owner on FB but still waiting for a response. If I don’t hear back in the next day or so I’ll put it in the mail.

A few months ago my mom found a Nintendo DS in a Walmart parking lot. It was in a case with a few games. She went inside to customer service and left her phone number in case someone called for it. No one ever called, so she kept it.

 

[sam_gordon]

A few months ago my mom found a Nintendo DS in a Walmart parking lot. It was in a case with a few games. She went inside to customer service and left her phone number in case someone called for it. No one ever called, so she kept it.

Why not leave the DS at the Walmart though? I could easily see someone realize it's missing, call the Walmart, and unless they happen to get an employee that knew there was a phone number left for a missing DS, they might say "nope, nothing was turned in".

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Why not leave the DS at the Walmart though? I could easily see someone realize it's missing, call the Walmart, and unless they happen to get an employee that knew there was a phone number left for a missing DS, they might say "nope, nothing was turned in".

Probably cause she figured no one would come back and a Walmart employee would end up keeping it instead.

 

[Jen414]

This spring, while running, I found a wallet on the street next to the sidewalk. It had about $400 in cash, a couple of credit cards, and a license. Gave it to my husband when I got home and he called the station and a cruiser came by and got it and called the kid. (My husband is a police officer.) It was a young kid who had just cashed his paycheck and put his wallet on top of the car and drove away. Funny thing was, it was miles from where he had gotten into the car.

Then this summer, I was running in a different town one morning. I ran by a restaurant and there was an open pocketbook on a bench. There was no one in the parking lot, but I didn't feel comfortable even looking in it. I ran for about another half an hour, but the whole time, I was thinking about the purse. I wasn't planning on running back that way, but I did. The purse was still there so I looked in it....about 10 nips, a wallet with $10, multiple credit cards, a license, a bunch of junk and Narcan. (Most of this I could see without fishing around since the purse was open.) . I decided I couldn't leave it there due to the nips and Narcan, so I called the police, said where I was, what was in the purse, and asked them to come and get it. The dispatcher was like, "Well, could you just bring it over?" What------I'm out running and by now, it's more than 85 degrees, but I really didn't feel comfortable leaving it there, so sure, I guess I can run it over. I was not happy. So I hiked up the black grandma purse over my shoulder and ran (in the opposite direction of where I was going) to the station. I'm sure it looked like I had just mugged someone, running down the street, dripping sweat, with a giant, super heavy (due to all the nips) old ugly purse. My husband was none to pleased with this story at all. He said I never should have poked around in the purse as I could've been stuck with a needle--true I guess. And he said I should've left it there when the dispatcher didn't send a cruiser to get it. At that point, I'd done my duty as a good citizen by calling it in.

Those are the only things that I can think of that I've found and returned. Like everyone else, I've found money here and there, but never more than $20 and never a way to figure out who it belonged to.

 

[wgeo]

Probably cause she figured no one would come back and a Walmart employee would end up keeping it instead.

Why? Because all Walmart employees are thieves? Where does this stereotype come from? Does everyone really think that every retail employee they deal with on a daily basis would steal given any/every opportunity?

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Why? Because all Walmart employees are thieves? Where does this stereotype come from? Does everyone really think that every retail employee they deal with on a daily basis would steal given any/every opportunity?

Wow, where did I say they would steal it? If no one comes back to claim it, I assume at some point an employee would get to keep it. It wouldn’t sit in the lost and found forever.

 

[kimblebee]

My daughter left her phone in a dressing room at Target 2 days after she got it - someone turned it in, very nice.

I'm surprised at the pretty much accepted assumption from most of this thread that if you turn something like cash into a store the associates are just going to steal it? Where does that idea come from? How is it possible that every poster here on the dis is truthful and honest and yet we assume that every retail clerk would steal given the opportunity? Doesn't make sense to me that we assume the worst about the people around us. At the bare minimum you have to realize that almost every single retail store would have the entire transaction of you turning it over on camera, not likely someone wants to lose their job over a few bucks.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I bet the people on this thread would be highly insulted if someone thought about them what they are thinking of others. The *whew* one was my favourite. If you’re so convinced an employee is going to steal something that was turned it, why give them your business in the first place?