Charlotte K. (12-09-2018), Snowshoe (12-07-2018)
Last Christmas Eve I found a brand new looking Samsung phone on the sidewalk. I was able to find the owners father in his contacts (left unlocked) and return the phone to them.
At the end of school year last year we found a house key on a lanyard. I hung it on a tree branch beside the side walk. You couldn't miss it. It was there for a month or two before it disappeared.
This week I found a Costco Card. I could not locate the owner online. I tried looking in social media etc. I shredded it. Replacements are new and this way nobody would use it.
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Charlotte K. (12-09-2018), Snowshoe (12-07-2018)
I don't usually find good stuff on walks. When we were checking our first kid into her dorm for her freshman year of college, the kids were given these swiper cards that would get them into the dorms, work vending machines and the washers and dryers, etc. While we were in her room after a trip to the bookstore, she realized she had lost the card, not even having had it in her possession for an hour yet. Amazingly, about the time she realized she had lost it, one of the upper classmen who were there to help get the freshmen situated, came to the room with her card. Not only were they able to quickly determine whose card it was, they identified what dorm and room she was in and brought it to her! If only all the things you misplace could reappear so perfectly.
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Years ago, Opal found a man's passport. I brought it to the Police station and was given the 3rd degree - had to give all my info in case I stole it. Off course I didn't.
Over the many years of walking many dogs, we've found a wallet, loose money bills and coin change, car license plates (2X), house and car keys, a run-over cell phone, and the best, a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, all because Zoe was alert (long story) and I quickly memorized the license plate, went home and called the police. The latter involved a major police raid right next door to us and several arrests. Good job, Zoe!
Charlotte K. (12-09-2018), POPTOP (12-07-2018), Snowshoe (12-07-2018), Woody (12-07-2018)
I've found drivers licenses, credit cards, charge slips (back when an entire card number was shown), worker/college/health insurance IDs....the cards I've always been able to return to the owners. The charge slips I just shredded. I've found keys and eyeglasses that I've turned into lost and found when available (don't know what happened to them).
We were at one of the local parks a couple of years ago and I saw a man come down the path from townhouses with his eyes focused on the ground. When we caught up to him, I asked if he had lost something (figuring that I could keep my eyes out for it on our walk). He'd lost a key with one of those rubber key ID holder thingies on it. I didn't see it that day. The next day, the pups pulled me toward a good sniffing tree and I saw where someone had put that key on a twig on the trunk of the tree. We went up the path and asked someone out sweeping her sidewalk if our description of the man might identify him for us so that we could return the key. She said it was probably the man who lived in the end house of the row next to hers...and it was. Success! The dogs were heroes that day.
Early last Spring a man from a town nearby dropped his wallet on the TCT/ATV trail system near us, posted on social media and asked if people would look out for it. I took Oban that way the next day thinking I'd keep my eyes open. I found a wallet. BUT, it wasn't his wallet. It was somebody else's wallet, lost the previous Fall. I sort of guessed as it was pretty well buried in the dirt. Toby's ID was in it, we contacted him, he came and picked it up, turned out he is a member of the church beside our house. He'd replaced critical stuff like his driver's license and health card but not his FAC. He was quite relieved to find his FAC in the wallet I found. How amazing to look for one person's lost wallet and find a different, longer lost one.
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Woody (12-07-2018)
Best one I ever found was a key card. So I went to the grocery and on my way out there was a key card laying on the ground. For those that don't know most modern offices now have a key card that opens the doors and so on and lets you in the office. Well the key card had the employees name and picture etc and big Kawasaki Logo on it. Well here is where it gets interesting.
So between my office and the grocery store is Kawasaki Engine experimental and prototype labratory. So to me obviously this is where the guy worked, and well now I had keycard full access to the entire place. So I decided to have some fun. I drove over there, walked right in the doors like i belonged, badged my way in using this badge. Found what looked like the the big bosses office, they are always in the corner with all the windows, walked in and greeted the guy sitting in there behind a big desk. I said, Hi, you know I know you don't know me, but I am computer programmer for a large fortune 500 company. I do take security extremely seriously. Yours, I really have to say sucks in a horrible way. I then told him, so I found this card here laying on the ground in the grocery parking lot. Now it is not this guys fault it looks like the clip broke that holds it on. However, this is very dumb to put your employee ID and name of your company on the key card. This is like taking your house keys and writing your name and address on them and then losing them. If you loose your house keys well no one knows where they go, millions of locked doors. However, this is like the keys to the kingdom with the address, you know exactly where to go. This is also a Friday evening so chances are the employee wouldn't report his card missing until Monday. I could have came in here this weekend and really had full run of the place. I mean I just walked through several doors and right into your office and no one questioned me because I had a badge, so why shouldn't I be here. So this is really a stupid way to secure your building access. I would really suggest a change in policy, because you got really lucky I found the card and not someone else. Then I gave him the card turned around and walked out. The guy never spoke a word the whole time, just stared at me and you could see all kinds of different emotions and thoughts and fears going through his expressions. I was loud enough and his office door was open I know other people were looking at me when I left. I really kind of enjoyed this. You would think a large company like Kawasaki would have a little better security that keycards with basically the address of the company on it.
Not on the finding end of something but a story about being the one who lost something. Back when DD was about 4 we went to visit her grandparents in FL, 8 hours away from home. Of course that included a visit to the beach, grandparents, her father (I say it that way because her father passed away when she was 8), myself and DD. Her father drove. We had a great romp in the surf and when we went to leave her father discovered the car keys missing from his bathing suit that had a "secure" closure. We looked extensively as we could not even get back to grandma's house without them. Then a couple of women walked up who had been on the beach watching us, held out his keys and asked if they were ours. What are the odds of anyone finding them in the water with rolling surf!
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Not on walks but I am constantly finding credit and debit cards in stores. One was in the meat case. I understand dropping a card but how does one wind up between a couple of roasts?
Last year I found a brand new I phone in a parking lot in the rain. I managed to dry it off enough it still worked. Eventually it rang and was able to find its owner through about 4 people lol.
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