Lost your camera look on gumtree

wow.. some decent people left in the world!!
 
I know little about Gumtree but if the owner is identified I hope they show caution in collecting their gear.........cynical I know but you never actually know the bone fides of the person offering to return it!
 
I'm pretty sure the decent thing to do would be to hand it in to a police station (or lost and found, it's a station), not place an advert on Gumtree.
 
I saw the thread and I thought it was related to stolen cameras, kudos to the person that has posted that, in any case if you have lost or your camera was stolen gumtree is a good place to search for it
 
Alastair said:
I'm pretty sure the decent thing to do would be to hand it in to a police station (or lost and found, it's a station), not place an advert on Gumtree.
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Yeah pretty daft. If I lost some gear whilst travelling through a station, I'd call the station / go see someone at station management. I definitely wouldn't think to start scouring Gumtree for obscure reference to a lost camera.
 
Right. Someone has left their gear on the station.
Now. It could possibly be one of our members.
Right. Our member cannot find it through the proper channels as it has not been handed in to the station or the police.
Now. lets suppose the finder thinks,through the advert they are seeking the rightfull owner so they cannot be done for stealing by finding.
Charlychuckchuck sees the add and alerts the members on TP. Our member sees the post and claims his gear.
Just supposing.
 
Its the new social media wanting a pat on the back, the amount of wallets I see on Facebook etc, they all have the address of the owner on the DL etc, yet d******ds put it on Facebook, why? hand it to the police
 
You see an abandoned bag at a central London railway station. What do you do?
  1. Alert a member of British Transport Police? (there's probably half-a-dozen on the station concourse and platforms, but maybe those guns they're carrying make them look scary..)
  2. Alert a member of station staff?
  3. Pick it up and hand it in at the station information/lost and found office?
  4. Pick it up and hand it in at the nearest police station?
  5. Pick it up and take it home,place an advert on Gumtree and hope an obscure chain of events involving Chuck informs the rightful owner.
There's an announcement on the platform/concourse tannoy every ten minutes reminding you that 1 or 2 is the correct course of action. The Gumtree route suggests thief's remorse, once it's on the kitchen table Joann from Willesden has realised what she's done.
 
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If my memory serves me rightly ,a good few years ago I found a very nice mountain bike dumped on the ground outside a local station as I finished my shift in the early hours ,I put it in the back of my discovery and then took it to the local police station the following morning .they made a report of it and told me to take it home and store it ,after a period of time ( might have been one month or three?) it would be useable as my property but if the original turned up with proof of ownership then they had prior claim .
Perhaps this is what the gumtree adverts about ,if pulled the excuse is I took reasonable steps to find the owner but they never claimed there property
 
Last dealing I had with the police over this was they really were not interested in lost property.
 
munch said:
Last dealing I had with the police over this was they really were not interested in lost property.
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Point 'em at an item of abandoned baggage in a busy London railway station and see how quick they get interested.

Picking it up and taking it home is just not defensible.
 
In my experience even "lost property" isn't trustworthy.

Last off the train at Euston station, with train staff going through cleaning the carriage. Half way down the platform realise my I've left my brand spanking phone on there, run back, no phone, staff have deserted. Run through the carriages to find train manager and explain that a staff member may have picked it up only to be told they're not thieves.

Errrr. Ok. I never suggested that but... Weird you'd say that.

Go to lost property, nothing handed in. Ever.

Point is, can't trust staff to do the right thing.

At least in this instance there's an attempt to get the lost property back to its owner, even if it's not ideal.
 
LizTheKid said:
In my experience even "lost property" isn't trustworthy.

Last off the train at Euston station, with train staff going through cleaning the carriage. Half way down the platform realise my I've left my brand spanking phone on there, run back, no phone, staff have deserted. Run through the carriages to find train manager and explain that a staff member may have picked it up only to be told they're not thieves.
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So there were no other passengers on the train? It's more likely a passenger did the same as the person in the OP and helped themselves to a lost item.


Did you check for a found notice on gumtree?

:exit::p
 
Dave1 said:
So there were no other passengers on the train? It's more likely a passenger did the same as the person in the OP and helped themselves to a lost item.


Did you check for a found notice on gumtree?

:exit::p
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Haha, there were other passengers but they'd all left - I'd been completing some work on my laptop before leaving the train so I was last off. Staff were cleaning the carriages ready for the train to depart.

I didn't check Gumtree.. Maybe I should have. [emoji6]
 
andyscott said:
More likely to be a migrant cleaner
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Because they're a migrant or because they're a cleaner or because that's the way you think?
 
andyscott said:
Not thats looking a crime statistics.
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Feel free to present a link to the relevant "migrant cleaners as perpetrators of crime" statistics..
 
Alastair said:
Feel free to present a link to the relevant "migrant cleaners as perpetrators of crime" statistics..
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In the scenario of train and rail, if you get the clearance, sure you can log on to my BTP terminal and see it for yourself.
 
Maybe the person who picked up the bag and camera was just going to get their train and didn't have time to find a lost luggage office or fill in the paperwork for handing it to the police. I found a bag in a train station waiting room many years ago just as I was going to board, full of personal items including the guys wallet with his address in it. There was no social media around in those days so I carted someone else's bag around for a weekend before handing it to the person that had left it behind after I returned home.
 
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