Found an iPad on the street

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As title, really. I noticed what looked like a piece of black plastic in the middle of the road near a pedestrian crossing, except when a car ran over it, it lit up. Grabbed it, turns out it's an iPad in a case. Screen is smashed up, displays everything fine but the actual touch screen only responds to touch in a tiny area. This was enough to open it.
Funnily enough, it opened to a Web page showing apple's share price. No idea if this was related to why the iPad was in the road getting smashed!

Managed to open the mail app, but it has 200+ unread messages, mostly marketing junk from places like car rental companies and the like. I can't scroll the email list, but I was able to see the email address which I have emailed in a hope they respond. But given the emails, it's probably a separate email they have for signing up to things that are likely to send marketing junk.

Unfortunately I only have an old ipod, while the iPad is using the new lightning connector which I don't have a cable for, so I can't plug it into iTunes and get account info that way.

Naturally, my next thought is to hand it into the police. If someone's lost an iPad then that's probably where they will go. But what happens to it if nobody does claim it? I'm in London if that helps. Would I get a reference number, and then after so many weeks be allowed to keep it if nobody comes forward?
 
Hand it in to the Police def, if no one claims within a certain time (cant remember how long) I think you can claim it.
 
What's to stop people from handing things in to non-local police stations and reducing the likelihood that people will claim their lost items?
 
I'd say the correct thing to do would be to hand it in. I'd hope after a certain amount of time the police might let you keep it, but I'm not sure how that works.

But then what is "correct" and what you want to do is up to you. You did not see who dropped it, and some police officer may decide to keep it themselves anyway.
 
Thanks for the confirmation. I was going to be handing it in tomorrow anyway, need to take some time off work to though (seriously 9-5 only mon - Fri!)
glad to hear there's a chance I could keep it. It looks pretty bad, but a new screen shouldn't be all that much, and since it has the lightning connector it has to be one of the new ones. Just hope the police don't look at it, think it's broken and just throw it away if nobody claims it!
 
FARGO said:
What's to stop people from handing things in to non-local police stations and reducing the likelihood that people will claim their lost items?
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Actually that would be very handy for me, there's a station 5 minutes down the road from where I work, which is a 15 minute train ride from where I found it. It wouldn't be unreasonable to hand it in there, would it? It's all the same force so the information that an iPad has been handed in should be made available to all forces? I may pop in at lunch and see what they say.

mrbell1984 said:
Not to say it will be blocked though. What is to say it gets blocked by the owner?
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It didn't seem to have a 3g connection, so I assume it's a wifi version, could that be blocked?
 
tom_e said:
They can't be blocked like phones as far as I'm aware?
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It can be blocked by the user though if it's a 3G or as soon as it connects to wifi.

I can reset mine remotely and lock it and if it's iOS7 it will require to be unlocked by the person who's logged into the Apple account with in the app store on restore by someone who found it or stole it.
 
Hand it in, might be part of something bigger and if it's not a privately owned one the organisation may want it back to properly dispose of it.

tl;dr - hand it in and collect karma :)
 
your local police station probably need one more arrest to meet their weekly target... prepare to be arrested (theft by finding) when you hand it in...
 
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