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I found a memory card in work today and instead on sticking it in the bin or keeping it i put it on a local site and within an hour i found the owner. I hope if ever i loose one someone would do the same.
 
gumbo-67 said:
I found a memory card in work today and instead on sticking it in the bin or keeping it i put it on a local site and within an hour i found the owner. I hope if ever i loose one someone would do the same.
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Nice one :D
 
Well done! Last year I lost one of my dogs after it had a fight in the local park and someone put him up on Facebook and I got him back within a few days. I was delighted and gave the people who took him £100 for their hassle for looking after him for two days. I didn't personally see the lost dog advert but someone who knew me did and they let me know. The internet can be good sometimes lol.
 
Last year I found a bag with a purse containing a few hundred pounds. After a few hours of detective work I managed to piece together a phone number and rang it a lady answered but said she had not lost a bag but her daughter had, after her daughter phoned me and identified the bag I was able to take it back to her ( only a couple of streets away) I didn't get offered a reward but it made me feel good for days.
 
This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons.

What would you do if you found a brown bag with £30k in it. ( Or enough to pay off your mortgage)

And be honest
 
I once found a wallet outside a shop where I live. There was a little money in it, but there was a credit card and the owner's phone number. I phoned the owner and it turned out that she lived only 20 minutes walk from my house. I gave her my address and said that she could come and collect it. She asked me to bring it to her !!
 
My young son came home a few months ago with a mobile phone he'd found on the grass verge outside our house. I went into the contacts list and phoned the first person on it, explained the situation, and they told me where the owner of the lost mobile lived. Turned out that she was only around the corner in the next street so me and the lad went and knocked on her door. Needless to say, she was pleased to get her phone back and offered him £10 as a reward, which he graciously accepted. Only problem now is that he seems to think that he sold it to her and he now keeps his eye out for other lost stuff that he can 'sell' back to the owner.
 
about 40 years ago neighbour who owned a boat yard on the thames lost his weeks takings in the street it was if my memory serves me rightly around £85,000 and a lot of it in cash .he took a lot of stick in the pub that night rest assured ,surprisingly someone knocked on the door the following morning and returned it intact having worked out the connection between the name on the cheques and the company van outside the house .and not only that the finder refused a thank you compensation offer .yep there are good people around .
 
mattyg said:
This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons.

What would you do if you found a brown bag with £30k in it. ( Or enough to pay off your mortgage)

And be honest
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A bit different i know but, a while ago I found an Omega Seamaster watch outside Old trafford football ground on a match night. The following day I phoned the ground to see if anyone had reported one lost , they told me they didn't have a lost and found office and they suggested reporting it to the police. I phoned the nearest police station to the ground to see what they suggest I do, the advice was "just hang on to it mate" they didn't even want my address!! So I did.
 
gumbo-67 said:
I found a memory card in work today and instead on sticking it in the bin or keeping it i put it on a local site and within an hour i found the owner. I hope if ever i lose one someone would do the same.
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How did you know it was the owner and not just a chancer turned up to claim it?
 
I spotted a dodgy looking car parked just around the corner a few years ago. No reg plates, just the garage's ads. Phoned the number on the plates and sure enough it was "hot" and had been left there to cool off. I parked my LandRover tight against it so it couldn't be moved and waited for the recovery truck to collect it (after arranging a password with the garage to make sure it was them not the thieves collecting it!) Sure enough, a few dodgy geezers turned up and weren't happy that it was blocked in. Managed to get a couple of iffy snaps on my phone before they vanished a few minutes before the recovery truck arrived. Later that evening, the garage owner came round and gave me a cheque for £200 and wouldn't take no for an answer - he said it was less than the insurance excess would have been had he had to have claimed. A couple of days later a WPC (or whatever they're called these days) came round and took a statement and a copy of the photos. Didn't think there was any chance of a conviction since the tea leaves hadn't actually driven it in front of a witness so could have claimed they had just found an unlocked car and sat in it. My photos were good enough for the WPC to recognise the chap I had got on camera but not much else.

I find enough to clear my mortgage every day - £0,000.00!
 
Because I put a photo from the memory card on the status one with the owner and his mum. A fair few people knew who it was and I checked her FB page and on there were a few more family pictures that were on the card too.
 
arclight said:
I can beat that. I found a £20 note. I kept it.
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That's dishonest. I'm sure the owners picture is on the front, you could have returned it :(
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I once lost my virginity so if anyone finds it could you please kindly return it....;)
 
mattyg said:
This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons.

What would you do if you found a brown bag with £30k in it. ( Or enough to pay off your mortgage)

And be honest
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:naughty::cool::naughty::cool::naughty:
 
mattyg said:
This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons.

What would you do if you found a brown bag with £30k in it. ( Or enough to pay off your mortgage)

And be honest
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Hand it to the police and then forget about it :)
Even if I was the teensiest tempted to keep it, people who keep that sort of money in brown bags aren't the sort of people you'd want to steal from.


ST4 said:
I found a fiver on the pavement once, I kept it...
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Ditto - but I put it into a charity box :p
 
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