Still some good people out there

My T-Mobile Vario 2 got stolen from a friends house party last September time, I was devastated. I thought I'd be stuck with an ancient Motorola fliphone till my contract was finished. However, a couple of months after my phone went missing I just got back from a friends house when a lady called to say she'd found my phone in a bush. Her dog had sniffed and scratched under the bush and she found my home number by turning it on (My home phone and name appear on the password screen). Sent her a card and a big expensive bunch of sunflowers, was so surprised it would turn up after 2 months or so :eek:.
 
Thats nice to hear,

To be honest if i lost my wallet I would not be outraged in the slightest if it was returned with no cash in it. (To an extent) So that's good to hear at least one nice person still exists!

What do other think? do they believe if their wallet was returned it should still be as you left it?
 
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I found someone's ID card last year in the city centre while I was wandering with a friend. We had no idea where the address was or how to get there, so we handed it into the police station. The weird thing was though, we got a funny look for doing it. Ah well!

I've had someone turn up at my door a couple years ago now with my brother's ID which her daugher had found the night before. I thanked her and she went on her way. There are some nice people around :)
 
AcidHell2 said:
Just had some random person ring the buzzer. Returning my flat mates wallet. Not only is everything there it even still has £50 notes in it :eek:.

Feel a bit bad not giving him some money or anything. Didn't have any on me and no idea he had £50 in the wallet.

Not only all that but he drove from Thornbury to the centre of bristol...

So a big thumbs up and a thank you..
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Fantastic stuff, really great to hear. :)

On a similar note, I was in Devon during Christmas and accidentally left my scarf behind while browsing a shop in Sidmouth. It wasn't until nearly an hour later that I realised it was missing. The scarf itself was worth very little, but had enormous sentimental value, as it had belonged to my grandfather (who died a couple of years ago).

My wife whipped out her mobile phone; we called the shop (having found their number from the back of a receipt) and explained the situation. The staff told us that they had the scarf, and would hold it for me. And they did, and I got my scarf back.

It was one of those "I'll be damned; humanity hasn't completely gone down the toilet just yet" moments. :D
 
We even have people handing in loose cash at work. Not often, but sometimes.

I found a wallet a couple of weeks ago - the man who owned it vaulted over some railings and didn't notice it fell out of his pocket. He had 20 years and fifty feet on me, so there's no way I could have caught up with him. I walked to the cop shop and handed it in there - they opened it and found a fair bit of cash, along with his cards, driving license, etc. From where and when he dropped it, he'd probably been to a cashpoint and was rushing to a club to drink his money.

There are still plenty of people who are not theives.
 
It really is unheard of nowadays i know someone who got the ferry to france met a women in her 60s and she took them to the otherside of germany than she drove back to france :o im sure that would never happen today
 
Glad to hear that there are some decent people out there :)

With you having no cash on you, you should have got thier address. Sent something to them through the post.
 
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That's great to hear, good on him.

A couple of years ago I was walking home from the shop and saw some money just lying their on the edge of the curb, picked it up and it was £50. Funny enough, I saw a woman about 100 yards away looking through her handbag and I thought this money must be hers. I went up to her and asked if she had lost some money and she said, yeah I seemed to off lost £10. :p

Anyway, I then went to the bank and handed then money that I found in. They took all my details, name, telephone number etc and said, if it isn't claimed in 4 weeks, we will ring you up and you will be able to claim it yourself. Four weeks later, they rang me up. :D:)
 
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Doing some raquetting in the middle of France in deep snow my father managed to drop his brand new Nokia e9something communicator in the snow. Totally lost, he only realised that night and went looking for it the next day. We had told the owner of the hotel about it and later that day someone rings up asking if someone there had lost a phone. The person had found it in the snow and not only had it still worked but he opened it up and the first calendar entry was the name of the hotel we were staying in, so tried luck and rang.
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I had a dead battery in my car last weekend and enroute to Halfrauds to buy a new one after getting a jump off the AA, the car cut out. The car wouldn't jump off my mates leads so he gave me a lift to get a battery but then had to disappear off to work.. I was stuck at the side of the road in the pouring rain without the tools to get the battery replaced!

Some lad drove past and pulled over, offered to give me a hand, he had tools in his boot and swapped the battery over for me. I gave him a tenner and he gave me his number incase I needed any other work doing in the future!

He saved me a hell of a lot of ballache that day! Only him and one other guy (who asked if I needed a hand but had no tools) bothered to stop and offer a hand..
 
I've lost my wallet twice, and both times it got handed in:

Once about 9 years ago on a bus, had my student card in it so it got handed in to the security office complete with the £40 it had in it.

Other time 2 years ago I must have lost it coming out the Library, got handed in at the Tescos next door. Can't remember if the money got nicked as the whole day was a complete nightmare (my gf's dad died on the same day, and I only realised my wallet was missing when I was getting on a bus to go and see her and realised I had no money!).
 
Street said:
I had a dead battery in my car last weekend and enroute to Halfrauds to buy a new one after getting a jump off the AA, the car cut out. The car wouldn't jump off my mates leads so he gave me a lift to get a battery but then had to disappear off to work.. I was stuck at the side of the road in the pouring rain without the tools to get the battery replaced!

Some lad drove past and pulled over, offered to give me a hand, he had tools in his boot and swapped the battery over for me. I gave him a tenner and he gave me his number incase I needed any other work doing in the future!

He saved me a hell of a lot of ballache that day! Only him and one other guy (who asked if I needed a hand but had no tools) bothered to stop and offer a hand..
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Eww
 
I found £20 one night outside the students union when I was walking back home with some mates (we weren't drunk). Handed it in to the police station the next day. I got quite a few odd looks and comments from people about doing that, which I resented.

I also dropped or otherwise lost my phone in an airport too (this was before the above though)...think it was Heathrow but I can't quite remember, it was when I was coming over to the UK for uni from South Africa. Anyway, it was only a Nokia 8210, honestly didn't think I'd see it again, but went and checked at the counter in case. Low and behold, it was sat right there. Made me feel very lucky, would have lost a lot of numbers I wouldn't have easily got back.
 
TheVoice said:
I found £20 one night outside the students union when I was walking back home with some mates (we weren't drunk). Handed it in to the police station the next day.
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I take it you did not get it back then ,if I lost £20 I would not dream of going to a police station as I would imagine most other people too would not ,chances of someone handing it in are so remote !
Still I expect the cops enjoyed a few pints on you ;)
 
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