The Power of Facebook

Droolinggimp

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Earlier today I was walking home after watching the Man Utd game in a local pub. Upon reaching the crossing I noticed something in the road. I first thought it was just some junk chucked out from a car zooming past me but after I looked a bit more I realised it was a wallet. So I went into the road and picked it up. After crossing the road and got into somewhere where there was light myself and my missus had a look inside and tried to see who the owner was. We got his name, address, driving license etc. No cash.

Went onto Facebook on my phone, searched for him and found him. Exact same person. Sent him a message but no reply for a few hours. Had a look on his Freinds list and found a lad under same surname. It was his nephew. I sent him a message and he got back to me right away. I asked a few questions about this wallet and a few questions of proof. He was on phone to his uncle, the wallets owner so I said, ask him what time he took out some cash from cash machine and how much. (statement in wallet from today) He replied with right time and amount.

It appears the wallet owner was in same pub as me watching same game and left roughly same time. How lucky was he for me to find it.

Just met up with his nephew and gave the wallet away.

My good deed for the day.

Anyone else have a good deed done today?
 
because a few years back I found a purse a few streets away from me, it was during xmas time too. It had 2 checks in there and iirc £70 in £10 notes. I called the lady who it belonged to after fining her number in the purse. She cam round with her husband a few hours later and we handed it to her. A day later she came back round with a bottle of wine and a tub of roses chocolates.

If I find anything I try my hardest to find the owner and hand it back in.

To be fair the wallet owner said there was no cash in the wallet apart from a few £1 coins which was still in there when I handed it to his nephew.

I would like to think some one would do this to me one day.
 
Found about three wallets in my life. And a phone. Handed them all to their owners.

'Best' find was £120 in cash in an unnamed purse on the road. Handed that in to the police - and it was claimed.

Well done, OP.
 
Cheers Lysander.. Narks me when people say 'if it had x amount of cash in there it would be different'. not a dig at you estebanray but not everyone is like that...:-)
 
Few years back I went up to a cash machine with a few hundred quid lying there, so I went into the shop and handed it to the manager. As I did, the guy came in and looked it me like I was scum toke his money and walked away.

**** could've easily stolen that.
 
Only found one (empty) wallet when I was 16, tried to trace it's owner as it had his student card in there but no response.

Still using it as my favourite wallet today :)
 
I saw a German max out the ATM amount then leave the cash in it , I shouted him back gave him the £250 he was ever so greatful. That was in 1996 he didn't goad me to much after the pen shoot out:(
 
why is the title 'The Power of Facebook' ?

In the OP you said you got his name, address and driving licence. You could have just taken a trip past the guys house and dropped it off. Not everything revolves around Facebook you know. Failing that you could hand it into the Police......
 
Droolinggimp said:
We got his name, address, driving license etc. No cash.
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Went onto Facebook on my phone, searched for him and found him. Exact same person. Sent him a message but no reply for a few hours. Had a look on his Freinds list and found a lad under same surname. It was his nephew. I sent him a message and he got back to me right away. I asked a few questions about this wallet and a few questions of proof. He was on phone to his uncle, the wallets owner so I said, ask him what time he took out some cash from cash machine and how much. (statement in wallet from today) He replied with right time and amount.
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sounds a bit odd.... what exactly was the request about 'proof' supposed to achieve when you've got a driving license with a picture of the owner, + his address in your possession.
 
Derek W said:
why is the title 'The Power of Facebook' ?

In the OP you said you got his name, address and driving licence. You could have just taken a trip past the guys house and dropped it off. Not everything revolves around Facebook you know. Failing that you could hand it into the Police......
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Exactly. Nothing to do with FB.

Sounds like Illuminati talk, trying to get more people to sign up to the thing in light of all the anti-FB anti-GCHQ talk. :p
 
Derek W said:
why is the title 'The Power of Facebook' ?

In the OP you said you got his name, address and driving licence. You could have just taken a trip past the guys house and dropped it off. Not everything revolves around Facebook you know. Failing that you could hand it into the Police......
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asim18 said:
Exactly. Nothing to do with FB.

Sounds like Illuminati talk, trying to get more people to sign up to the thing in light of all the anti-FB anti-GCHQ talk. :p
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This is what Facebook wants. It wants you to think that using it is the only way you can accomplish x, y or z. When it fact, x, y or z are just as accomplishable without it, but once you're inside the FB walls, it's hard to see out.
 
Considering I don't drive and my missus had a drink. Using Facebook was the only way I could contact the owner. Or nephew in this case. So.. Face book helped reunite. Noting more noting less.

If it wasn't for Facebook it would have been a week before I could go round and hand it in to him due to work etc. He lived other side of derby.
 
dowie said:
sounds a bit odd.... what exactly was the request about 'proof' supposed to achieve when you've got a driving license with a picture of the owner, + his address in your possession.
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Because I was chatting to his nephew as the owner didntnrelpy to my messages. Best safe than sorry.
 
Lysander said:
This is what Facebook wants. It wants you to think that using it is the only way you can accomplish x, y or z. When it fact, x, y or z are just as accomplishable without it, but once you're inside the FB walls, it's hard to see out.
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You're totally right, he could have used that other wildly popular system that lets you send messages to people you have no details of other than their name. Shame on the OP for telling his story here and mentioning that he used Facebook to track the guy down. It would have been much better for both parties if he'd used some more convoluted, slower method.
 
yup same here handed in a mobile phone found before but couldn't unlock it to call the owner :( so gave it in to police. It was never claimed. :(

Was pick pocketed just before summer there lost 40€ but some kind soul handed in the wallet. Just glad to have my cards back incl driving licence. :)
 
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