Lost wallet.How many honest people are out there?

My OH lost his wedding ring in Tesco's car park in Baldock . It was handed in by a very honest and kind person and when we returned and asked customer services if anyone had handed it in , it was returned to us. It was gold , as you would expect, so that was good of them.

I think most people are honest and kind.

Once when my daughter was a toddler in a pushchair I tucked my family allowance book, including money, into the folds of the hood, only to find it gone when I arrived home. Money was really tight at the time, and I immediately went out looking for it. I retraced my steps but it was nowhere to be found. Then two ladies approached me. They had noticed me searching. They had found it and come looking for me. I was so grateful. The money I had collected from the post office that morning was still all there. What a, relief!

We have always handed in lost wallets and phones. My GS found a really expensive designer bag in our street, against a wall. Everything was in there, including credit cards, front door keys, the person's name and address. We took my GS round to the address and he gave it back to the daughter who had lost it (on a drunken night out 😩). It turned out to be a very expensive 21st birthday present and she had been devastated to lose it. The parents were so overjoyed they sent a huge bouquet of flowers and money for my GS, although he said it was not necessary as his joy was in returning it.

A friend was on holiday in Madrid. He stopped in a busy central square to look at his map and walked off leaving his bag on the ground.
As soon as he realised he went back but it was gone so without any hope and feeling very stupid, he found a police station and asked if by any chance it had been handed in.
It had! 😀

I remember Christmas 78. Hubby and I were out with another couple for a night out and walking back we found a wallet with over £300 in it. Had a name and address in so the next morning I used the phone book to look up a number, went to the phone box and put in 2p to phone the person.
Young man had been out of the booze the night before with his holiday wages and lost his wallet.
He came and picked up the wallet with the money in it. I was 8 months pregnant and on a wage of £25 a week so it was a huge amount of money.
He was that grateful he never even offered me the 2p the phone call had cost me!! Should have handed it in the police station which suggests a 10% reward.
I don't regret phoning him but some reward would have been nice.

I dropped 3 ten pound notes in the car park of the local pool going in one morning. I'd been to the cash machine the day before. A lady came in behind me and found them and handed them in and in the changing room told me. I went and claimed them. We do chat when we meet anyway I was very grateful but
didn't think of buying her coffee or anything. I maybe should have?.

pooohbear the same thing happened to my son when he was about 10 years old. He found some sort of computer which was really important to someone's work. There must have been a name and address with it bc we got in touch with the owner. My son returned the computer and the man who opened the door, took it from him, barely said thank you, and closed the door on him. As you say, you don't expect anything, but some appreciation wouldn't go amiss.

The police don't deal with things like wallets found in the street.

When I found a wallet with several contactless and loyalty cards in it, I was told by a perfectly uninterested police officer to hand it in to the admin office of the mall where I was shopping. I tried that. There was no one there. As it happened, the name on the cards was uncommon and rang a bell with me. I thought it was possibly connected with our local karate club and asked my instructor, who had a class at a local school that day, to ask the boy of that name what his father's first name was. Bingo! His dad's name matched the name on the cards! Miss Marple stand aside!

We have contact details for all the students, so that guy got all his cards back and I didn't go on a shopping spree with the £100 a go contactless ones!

After having my car stolen yesterday I don't think I can give an unbiased reply. Not a postable one.
Car theft is increasing, lack of car parts, and the economic situation are apparently to blame.
Still boils down to theft,

Our car is ribbed on a regular basis. I can't say it's broken into bc my husband accidentally left it open a few times, but we have camera, footage of people sneaking in at the dead of night and going through our belongings. They took a few things from the glove compartment, including a box of peppermints, but left the Will Smith C. D. Obviously not a fan 🤣

So sorry to hear Delia22 that your hubby lost his wallet.

My experience when I have found something is to try and contact the owner themselves, usually in the case of a mobile 'phone hold onto it and within a couple of hours the owner ringing to find out who has it. On each occassion returned successfully to the owner. Found two credit cards and phoned the CC company direct and they have cancelled the card.

But I am sorry to say handing into a shop etc I wouldn't trust the lost item to be returned to their owner.

MissAdventure you'd need to go a good way to find a bank or open police station here, and I'm in the suburbs of a major city, not the middle of the countryside.

Same here.
I'm living in a time warp, I think.

Last summer we were going to Cornwall on holiday. We stopped at Exeter service station to get a coffee and go to the loo. Huge queue ( predictably 🙄) for the ladies stretching out of the door. Waited, getting desperate- then my turn came. As I locked the door, I spotted a mobile phone on top of the toilet roll dispenser. I picked it up, rushed out of the door assuming the lady in the yellow top who had been in before me would be there at the handwash. No!! Nowhere to be seen. Ran ( well, hurried) out and spotted her with a man, presumably her husband. Stopped them and told briefly I’d found her phone. Both looked at me blankly and the lady said something along the lines of ‘ oh dear, thank you!’ That was it! They walked off. I joined the back of the queue again 🥴!!

I've already posted about this but I've just remembered that my dear , now late father found a Kodak camera in it's case with a kind of carrying strap when we were having a day out at the seaside when I was a child. It was probably an expensive camera at that time and at that time also we were not that well off. Honest to a fault as, I suspect, many of the war generation were, he handed it in at the local police station and was asked to leave his details.The camera was not reclaimed and the police contacted dad after some months and said that the camera now belonged to Dad ( possibly not strictly legally? GSM - I don't know the law on this , then or now) . We had it for years.

When I was a small child out with my Mum, I spotted a fountain pen on the ground. We took it straight to the village police station (those were the days!) and the policeman said that if it wasn’t claimed within, I think, six weeks it would be mine. It wasn’t claimed - being far too young for a fountain pen, I gave it to Dad. So that was the practice in the 50s and I assume still is, if you can find a police station! That sort of period would give the original owner ample opportunity to try to find their lost property.

MissAdventure

Why don't people take them to the bank or the police?
On the next door app people seem to enjoy saying "message me, and if you can tell me what's in the front pocket, blah blah..."

Just hand it in!

This is fair if you live in a place where the bank & police station are near.
Unlike my DB & SiL, who live in a village that the nearest to them would be 10 miles away!!
So, not everyone has the ability to just pop to the nearest one!

Yes, so I gather.
We haven't a police station here, or it closes early, I think.

I should have thought of that.
I'm just frustrated that everything seems to be put on facebook.

My son was out cycling one day in the middle of nowhere and found a large wallet stuffed with notes and every card you could imagine. It was inside a soft bag with an Ipad. The owners rang the Ipad he answered and reunited it all with owner very quickly after giving them directions how to find him in remote rural location with no signposts as they were in an old car with no sat nav. They thanked him profusely and gave him £10.

My parents lived next to woodlands in a house that looked much more affluent than it really was - they had 2 burglaries. After the 1st they fitted locks on all downstairs windows and after the second one (and with nothing left to steal) they fitted an alarm.

The 3rd burglar was obviously startled as he tried to get in - consequently when he ran off he forgot his ladder.
The police said "if he doesn't claim it in x months, it's yours"

I think it used to be 3 months (the lost property thing).

I like it NotSpaghetti. He was hardly going to return was he?🤣🤣

We’re an honest family I think ….i was in a very large shopping centre when my granddaughter aged about 8 or 9 was looking at some glass animals on a indoor market stall…she dropped and broke one …and we pushed all the pieces to side of table slot stop anyone hurting themselves …then else sat and waited 1/2 hour for the stall-holder to return so we could pay for the object and for granddaughter to apologise to her. Stall-holder was flabbergasted that we’d waited to pay ….shed had things broken before and folk had just walked off! 🤷🏻‍♀️

I found a bank card on the pavement last summer while on holiday on Mull. After a bit of detective work, I found the owner in a local restaurant. They offered me a drink but I was just glad to have found them. The only other wallet I found in the street belonged to someone I knew who was working as a builder down the road from where I found it.

I often see thank yous on local Facebook feeds.

I left my Samsung tablet in the seat pocket of a flight last year and realised as we went through security for our onward flight. Went to the airline desk in the transfers area and when we went down to the new gate, there was a member of staff with my tablet! It would have been easy not to have found it for whoever was checking the plane so I was delighted as it was at the start of a long trip!

We went to a recently re-opened village pub now run by the Community. We had a lovely meal but when we got home and checked the bill realised that they had not charged us for desserts or drinks. We went back and explained to the Landlord who was gobsmacked at our honesty to pay the bill in full. It has now become one of our local go to places.