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37chief

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This is the second time I have found some ones drivers license in the weeds while mowing. The license was along with a couple credit cards and other important cards, someone dumped after going through the purse. I found a phone number. I talked to the persons mother. She was happy I found the cards. Then she said when are you going to bring they by. I told her it don't work like that, she said then will you mail them. So now I will go to the post office and mail the stuff. I think if it was my family's stuff I would be on the road right now. Another time I found a pile of mail some one took from mail boxes. Most were opened. The thief was probably looking for credit cards. What have you found of importance or valuable to others? Stan
 
I found a cell phone along the road a couple of years ago in the early Spring. I gave it to my wife who dried it out and charged it and got a number from it. She called the number and found out the people had lost it in early Winter when they stopped to change drivers or something. They were happy to come by and pick it up, then came back later to thank her again.
 

When you find things like that in the weeds, you really need to contact your local law enforcement. They will make sure it gets back to the owner, and also may be interested in the exact location where you found them. Might just be helpful in cornering the low life who tossed it there.
 
Guess I would probably tell her I would put them back where I found them. I am like you, if it were my family's things, I would be gone by now.
 
I found Dad's wallet in the hayfield. He lost it while he was setting round bales of first cutting off the field. I found it when I was cutting the second cutting. He had already replaced everything by then and there was only a few dollars in it.
 
Last year I lost a very large Craftsman screw driver in the corn field while combining. I had used it to pry K-rap out of the rock trap or some such thing, set it down and continued combining. I walked that field many times looking for that thing. Brand new. Not a chance in all that residue. Was driving the big tractor diagonally across the field last week and looked down at the ground and there it was. You woulda thunk I found the holy grail. I was happy. Another hour and it would have been plowed under.
 
I have found a few over the years, one with $2400 and a Navy ID in it. I take the money and cards out, and put my phone number in, rubber band it, and drop it in a mailbox. They call and I send the money. The Navy guy called me 6 months later, he lost it the night before he went on a WestPac.
 
Twice my kid and I have found womens purse with quite a bit of money in them. We turned them over to the police and both times were treated with suspicion and coldness.

We seen a briefcase in the street in town that was open with papers flying about. We stopped and were picking them up. Other drivers were mad we were in the street. a couple did come help finally. The owner was a woman insurance agent.

My neighbor found our two hogs in the middle of the road a couple weeks back! :oops: He was nice enough to herd them into the barn and lock them up.
Jay
 
Found a wallet once. ID was for a guy from CA. Had to make a few long distance calls from his address list before I found someone who knew that he was visiting in AZ. He called the guy and had him come by to pick up the wallet. Guy didn't even say thanks. Probably should have just left it lay where I found it.
 
Been on the opposite side of it. Was working in Jersey City NJ, on a commercial job, pile clusters and column footings, for a new addition to a mercury plant, I was excavating the column footings to subgrade. Nasty site, an old contaminated rail bed a high one, industrial brownfield kind of area with a huge abandoned warehouse across the street with dark cavernous areas, trails going in and out through holes in the fence, a scene out of the walking dead, literally. We took a brief tour to where there was light coming in. Boss man has an attorney friend with some brownstone rentals in an adjoining area. We brought in equipment to clear the crack vile and garbage strewn areas between 2 buildings, lay down crushed stone etc. Somehow in the affair, I was in a single axle dump and for some darned reason had a wallet with me, in the truck and it fell out. Fat chance of getting it back in this kind of area right ? An elderly Puerto Rican woman found a number in it off a business card, called the office, they got word to me, I called her, went over a few blocks, retrieved my wallet, she would not accept any reward at all. I was most grateful, and had a trip planned in a few days.
 
I kind of feel the same way now, should have just passed over it. Now it's my problem to get the junk back to them. If it were mine I would like to get it back. Just trying to be a nice guy. A guy called one time and said: I have your wife's bible, I found it along the road. The wife told him, no it is in my car. Went out to look in the car. NO car. another story. Stan
 
That does seem like the proper thing to due. However calling law puts you in suspicion and in many cases I have read about the law
keeps the money under the fake assumption it must be drug money. Little girl scout found a large sum of money, , while cleaning
roadside, cops used it to buy equipment for their department. No evidence whatsoever it truly was drug money. yes most law is
honest, except when money is involved.
 
We found a bank bag containing a bunch of checks made out to a clothing store in a town a few miles from where we were working. At lunch break, my boss and I decided we'd drop the bag and contents by the store, thinking they'd be pleased to have it back. The store owner grabbed the phone and called the cops, mentioning a robbery, and here they came in a mad rush. The police chief figured out real quick that we weren't who the store owner said we were, and sent us on our way, much to the dismay of the owner. The incident gave me a good education. Heck with being a nice guy and returning something to the owner - from then on anything important was turned over to the cops.

I also found a bank bag lying in the middle of main street in our little town. Took it to the mayor/police chief, and a few hours later my neighbor knocked on the door, shook my hand, and thanked me for returning his lost bag. He'd laid it on top of his Bronco, and it slid off on the way to the bank, I guess a minute or so before I came along, because he immediately turned around and couldn't find it. Looks like it would be a good idea to write your name on your bank bag, but maybe there's reasons not to.
 
Pulled up to a bank ATM and it was still logged in. I logged out and it spit out the card. I called the guy (found name in phone book) and left message. He stopped by my house and thanked me, but said did you have to leave a message. His wife did not let him hear the end of it.

My wife was driving our daughter then age 12 home and my daughter said should that girl be laying in the driveway (it was winter). Wife turned around and here was our neighbor laying on the driveway, saying don't touch me, get my husband. He came out of the house and called an ambulance. Turned out she had an implanted pacemaker and the wire was broken giving her internal shocks!
 
I remember from back in school I found someones wallet. Wasn't a friends, so I returned it to the rightful owner. Turns out it was "stolen" and cash was missing. I never even looked if there was cash inside but it was enough evidince to convect me. Dont remember how much detention but I still owed the guys 50 bucks. Learned my lesson a long time ago, dont touch others stuff. Not worth it.
 
I lost my cell when changing drivers while on vacation;at our next stop realized it must be at last stop,and drove back,but could not find it.So went on with vacation.A couple on a bike found it and called our home # off it,asked for our address and mailed it back.They would not take a reward,so we bought some McDonald's coupons and mailed to them.
Another thing,I lost my wrist watch while loading tobacco out in the field.I did not realize it til later and so I walked the field,but could not find it.Later when discing so I could sow cover crop,I was making a turn,happened to look down and found it.Almost covered it up!Mark
 
found a fire department pager in the sand on the beach--battery was dead but same model as mine and charged it. when the pager got activated knew what fire department it was from--brought it to them and they knew who reported losing his $300 pager.
 
Found an Id card a year ago half under a gas pump, had the guys name, found it in the phone book and called him. I asked him if he needed his Id card to get into work the next morning, he said yeah, why, well, you don't have it, I do. A few seconds later he asked where in the h#&& I found it, I told him, and he said I just got gas there not over an hour ago. He told me where he lived, I asked if he wanted me to leave it any certain place for him, he told me a place, I told the manager who would come pick it up. The guy called me three times thanking me.
 
(quoted from post at 17:39:55 04/23/15) I kind of feel the same way now, should have just passed over it. Now it's my problem to get the junk back to them. If it were mine I would like to get it back. Just trying to be a nice guy. A guy called one time and said: I have your wife's bible, I found it along the road. The wife told him, no it is in my car. Went out to look in the car. NO car. another story. Stan
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Its not your problem, drop it off at the police station next time you drive by. They get paid quite well to take care of these things.
 
Walked out of my bank one day and saw a bundle of bills on the pavement. Walked back in and they figured out who had dropped them. Turned out to be the local electric company.
Richard in NW SC
 
I read all of the stories here, thinking about what does and what can happen. In times past it was the correct thing to do, call or contact the owner and everyone goes home happy. Not so now. In fact, there was a scam going on where people were "losing" things on purpose, then accusing the finder to the point of extortion.

We found a wallet in the street in front of where I work. It had a DL, debit card, several credit cards, and student ID card, no cash. We discussed this for a couple of days at work, thinking and hoping maybe the owner might come by. The address on the DL was from another city and we knew the owner was a student. Finally, I put it all in a plain "bubble" envelope, and mailed it with no return address to the address on the DL, thinking that either the parents would get it, or it would get forwarded, etc.

We think it was stolen and only the cash was taken out. It's a crying shame for good people to be blamed for stuff when they are only trying to help.

In the 70's while working at a grocery store I found a DL with 7 one hundred dollar bills wrapped around it with a rubber band. It belonged to a local dentist. I called his office and left a message for him to come by the store at his convenience for his DL. On arrival he took it, looked at it, peeled off one of the bills and offered it to me. I didn't take it, but on subsequent trips to the store he was very generous with tips for me carrying out his groceries. Never was there a suspicion or thought of wrongdoing. Of course, he knew how much he had, and saw that it was all there.
 
I went to the post office one time which was next to our bank. I saw a bank envelope laying by the PO boxes. No one was around. I handed it to the clerk and told her I found it laying over there. Well a day or so later I went back to the post office for something and asked the same clerk if any one claimed the money. She then recognized me and said yes a lady had just cashed her check and laid it there. The lady came back crying and told the clerk what she had done. She was so happy to get the money back the clerk told me. From what I saw there were several $100 bills in the envelope. I slept good that night knowing I did my part.
 
Years ago was on my way back from Fargo. Stopped at a primitive reststop---which was a gravel path to an outhouse. On the way back to my car I noticed what I thought was a wallet. Picked it up and it was a holder for travelers checks with about $600 worth of checks. The fellow had kept the receipt in the folder (which you aren't supposed to do!) Stopped at the nearest sheriffs office in Elbow Lake MN to have them handle it. Oh No! they said..we don't get involved with that sort of thing. When I got home I looked up the fellows name in the phone book and called but no answer...the bank in Cleveland was shown so I simply mailed them back to the bank with a note explaining what had happened. Never got a thanks from anyone! I could just imagine the look on the fellows face when he next stopped for
lunch/dinner/gas when he discovered his travelers checks were missing.
 
It takes all kinds, when I was about 10 or 12 I had a paper route and found a women's wallet on the side of the road. The address on the driver's license was a few blocks down the street so I walked to the house, rung the door bell, no one was home, so I dropped the wallet between the storm door and front door and started to walk away. Her neighbor saw me and asked what I was doing, I explained I found a wallet and was leaving it where the driver's license said it belonged. Before I knew it she was questioning me, I ended up leaving the wallet with her and she got my name. I don't know if she called the paper or found us in the phone book but they did send me a card with some money in it (think it was like $5, but I only made $20/month on the paper route) and called my parents to tell them what a fine young man they were raising. I really didn't care, I found something that wasn't mine and returned it where it belonged.

Brother managed a 7-11 store for a while, they went to pick up their bank bag one day and when he got it back to the store the key didn't work, come to find out the bank gave him the bag for a different 7-11, they returned it and the bank chewed them out. The bank felt they needed to be more careful when they picked up the bag, of course it couldn't be the bank's fault now could it?

While working for the county the State of Wisconsin sent me the title for a mini van the county bought, but there was also a title for a Yamaha of some sort in the envelope. Knowing the hassles the folks would have trying to get a replacement title and the fact the state would probably make them pay for it I dropped the title in the mail with my business card and a quick note explaining what happened, they did send a thank you note.
 
Found a sweet 4 wheeler in some brush near a decades deserted golf course that was being turned into wet lands in replacement of wetlands that were being flooded with a new reservoir. I enjoyed walking the dog there where he could run free. I told a neighbor/friend who is ex deputy and still works as a reserve officer I think. I took him to where it was. He took care of calling the cops. He said it was stolen from a nearby home and the owner had already had the insurance pay off etc.
 
Had a woman call asking for her friend. No one with that name here. Started hitting remedial and accusing me of stealing her friends phone. 449 must be a common cell exchange, as I had a lot of people dial 814 instead of 817 area code, then hit remedial instead of dialing manually.
 
If I found something like that I would cal the Cops and have them handle it. I would not even touch any of it so as not to get finger prints on them which could help lead to an arrest if ya like the cops are even close to that good
 
went to a Green Bay Packer game a couple years ago (they won) and stopped at a fast food place on the way home as soon as we got out of the stadium traffic. As we got ready to leave, I saw a nice camera sitting in an empty booth. I picked it up and turned it on and it was almost full of photos from the game. Didn't feel I could trust the fast food place to get it back to the owner because there wasn't any name on it, much less an address or phone. Took it with me, and did a little detective work from the photos, and got it back to the owner. He had come into Green Bay from South Dakota for his first-ever Packer game. He was half way home before he missed the camera. Sent me a nice thank you and a restaurant gift card. Still see him on Facebook, and am glad I took the time to help someone.
 
Years ago, the ATM machines would take the debit card and hold it until the transaction was complete. I drove into the one at my bank, the machine was still activated with the previous customers card still inside! I ended the transaction and dropped the card in the night deposit box on my way out.

One evening the door bell rang, there was a lady holding my wife's wallet! She had just got back from the store, hadn't even missed it! She had left it in the shopping cart in Walmart's parking lot. The good Samaritan returned it, intact, refused any reward other than many thank-you's!

Then there was the Dallas TX TV station that planted a purse on top of a gas pump. Had some money, a fake ID card, fake credit cards, and a phone number inside. Over and over, people either took it, never tried to contact the owner. Some dumped the contents, removed the money and credit cards, left the purse on the pump. Some looked inside and strangely returned it to the top of the pump. After a whole afternoon of watching the results, someone finally called the number inside. They got a hefty reward and recognition for their good deed!
 
Even though doing the right thing has caused me some small grief in the past, I will still continue to help others whenever I can! I was raised this way and love being an honest guy!

I remember Dad getting burned and he had the means to really get back at the people that done him wrong. I was young and wanted to see him ream them good. He let it go. I asked him why. He told me "I sleep well at night." I get that now. :)

I say "yes ma'am" and "no sir" and give back the change if they overpay me at a store. I have received a pat on the back for it and while nice it is not needed as I have to live with myself and that is what it is about.

When my 18 year old daughter died a lot of kids from school came to us with stories of how she went out of her way to help them or just give them some encouragement. While others teased "different" students, Sara reached out to them. I would like to think she got this from her parents!
Jay
 
I believe that many states now have laws that permit the law enforcement to confiscate any large(?) sums of cash found in stops as if it is drug money, without evidence that it actually is. I don't know what the amount cutoff is. Law should be changed IMHO.
 
If you lose your wallet I will find you and give it back . I won't touch your money . But if your driving the Brinks truck and you forget to shut the back doors and bags of money are falling out. Maybe not so honest.
 
Years back when I was manager for one of my kids soccer teams I had like 350 in cash(belonged to the team) in my jacket pocket. I was walking quickly to catch up to pay the trainer we had hired for the season and must of dropped it in the rec center as I was leaving. So I walked back in ask the front desk if anyone turned in a roll of cash... nope. Well now I was in a panic and asked some of the employees that worked there and finally one saw a lady pick it up! We found the lady (in her 50's) and she was going to keep it as she had it already in her jacket locked in a locker(only a few minutes had passed since I dropped it). I told her the exact amount and what it was for and she handed it over.

Now if it was me I would have handed it into the front desk!
 
(quoted from post at 05:38:25 04/24/15) What's remedial?
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Think he means "[b:2dbf59bd8c]redial[/b:2dbf59bd8c]". They might call it "[b:2dbf59bd8c]remedial[/b:2dbf59bd8c]" in the part of the country where he is.
 
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