Have you ever found something and kept it ?

javajoe

Have you ever found something and kept it, rather than trying to find the rightful owner ?

I saw an article on the Tribune magazine yesterday where a woman is trying to find the owner of a ring she found 15 years ago. Amazing when you think about it, especially after all that time.

http://www.tribune.ie/magazine/interviews/article/2010/jan/17/ad-lib-the-big-stories-behind-the-small-ads-eithne/

JJ

biko

Nothing valuable that I can think of.
Must be something though.

Buford T Justice

Money.

A Dog..... no, wait we tried to find the owner of her.......

Yeah, just money

TPD

A mobile phone. I would have given it back, but it was pretty crap anyway and had crazy frog as the ringtone, so the owner was a twat and didn't deserve it back.

Prof.Badass

No but your da did .

(i knew i could make that into a your ma joke).

m@cc@

javajoe wrote: »

Have you ever found something and kept it, rather than trying to find the rightful owner ?

I saw an article on the Tribune magazine yesterday where a woman is trying to find the owner or a ring she found 15 years ago. Amazing when you think about it, especially after all that time.

http://www.tribune.ie/magazine/interviews/article/2010/jan/17/ad-lib-the-big-stories-behind-the-small-ads-eithne/

JJ

F*** me, quiet news day.

edvedfan

Found fifty euro among all the crisps on those shelves under the counter, handed it in to the lovely shopkeeper, she contacted me two weeks later saying nobody claimed it so i could collect it

Gone Drinking

javajoe wrote: »

I saw an article on the Tribune magazine yesterday where a woman is trying to find the owner or a ring she found 15 years ago.

<sick>
I wouldn't mind a look at her ring..
</sick>

Smart Bug

My virginity.

stovelid

A child in a meteorite crater.

He works in the metropolis as a mild mannered reporter now.

rockmongrel

50 quid on the floor of a pub. Excellent, excellent night.

Buford T Justice

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

A mobile phone. I would have given it back, but it was pretty crap anyway and had crazy frog as the ringtone, so the owner was a twat and didn't deserve it back.

Actually yeah. I found a phone on the ground at slane....... Win for me.

jm99

never like keeping stuff, always try give it back.

walshb

javajoe wrote: »

Have you ever found something and kept it, rather than trying to find the rightful owner ?

I saw an article on the Tribune magazine yesterday where a woman is trying to find the owner of a ring she found 15 years ago. Amazing when you think about it, especially after all that time.

http://www.tribune.ie/magazine/interviews/article/2010/jan/17/ad-lib-the-big-stories-behind-the-small-ads-eithne/

JJ

I found a Euro the other day, and I kept it.

Shouldn't the question be, "Has anyone ever found something and NOT kept it?"

marwelie

On a family holiday in Spain, I started digging in the sand looking for stuff (as you do when you're about 8) and I dug up what I thought was a ring pull from a can. When we cleaned it up it turned out to be a diamond ring! We brought it to the local police station who said we could keep it if no-one had claimed it after a week. Thirty years later my mother is currently wearing it and its worth 3 grand!

Davidius

My brother found a 6 week old kitten in the middle of a roundabout and decided to bring it home and keep it. Probably the better option.

sim2

javajoe wrote: »

Have you ever found something and kept it, rather than trying to find the rightful owner ?

I saw an article on the Tribune magazine yesterday where a woman is trying to find the owner of a ring she found 15 years ago. Amazing when you think about it, especially after all that time.

http://www.tribune.ie/magazine/interviews/article/2010/jan/17/ad-lib-the-big-stories-behind-the-small-ads-eithne/

JJ

m@cc@ wrote: »

F*** me, quiet news day.

It's a regular feature in the magazine where they follow up on the story of a small ad, so it has nothing to do with the news part of the paper!!

AckwelFoley

i found a soggy 20 the other day.

I even wrote a thread for it.

I couldnt give it back...

so i spent it.

I dont feel bad.

Seaneh

Found one of those nokia xpressmusic phones last week in a student, handed it to the bar man and he just handed it back and said "keep it, they wont even look for it, sure theres about 15 behind the bar from last semester" so i kept it. handy too, my phone imploded a few days before.

Red_Marauder

I got locked out of my apartment last week, in the freezing cold wearing no socks and a tshirt and swimming shorts (luckily). I walked a but out to the pavement, completely barefoot contemplating what the hell I was going to do. No phone, no key, no atm card and no shoes. And guess what, I found twenty euro sitting there on the ice. God's way of saying "Chin up, you douchebag".

Anyway, it's a large apartment complex, it was 9am and nobody had walked by, so there was no reasonable way of finding the rightful owner beofre appropriation, which makes it legal.
Anytime I've found money before I've put it in the poor box but I was feeling particularly poor that morning myself.

phasers

Money, a phone, leather gloves, jackets, books, and a good few other things. It's amazing the stuff you find on buses.

I also found one of my dogs, and whenever it's raining and I forget my umbrella I go to the Lost and Found in my college and claim "my" black umbrella. There's always one there...

Oh also I always find cash and jewelery at gigs, if anybody was at The Who a few years ago and lost a calvin Klein watch, ta very much

Bill-e

A guy I work with found an Ipod with a phone number on the back of it.

He called the number and arranged to give it back. The owner called to the office to collect it the next day and she was hawt! like a perfect 10. She was a beauty therapist or something. Anyway, long story short she said is there anything i can give you to say thanks. So without missing a beat yourman said "you could let be buy you dinner?". She agreed and he's been with her for nearly a year now. The lucky fupper!

citizen_p

yep...im a hoarder, off the top of my head.....found ash trays, beltbuckles, letters relating to a guy in the army a ww1 case off a vickers machine gun, an ak47 baonet, a ring, a chain (silver),a mini fridge (perfect) just need a new fuse in the plug


no way could i have traced these to anyone (living)....so instead of putting them in a dump i keep them

Run_to_da_hills

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Actually yeah. I found a phone on the ground at slane....... Win for me.

Not a good idea to "mark" your legit sim card with a phone you don't know the full history of. Criminals often throw away their phones if they suspect that there is a tab on them.

Every call you make a call the IMEI and Sim card is registered on a database. The service providers can provide the authorities with this information if requested, they can then put two together and pin point where calls are made from.

Unregistered pay as you go phones can also be tracked to within 15 feet to where calls are made from. The last thing you want is doors kicked in at 2am.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Seaneh wrote: »

Found one of those nokia xpressmusic phones last week in a student, handed it to the bar man and he just handed it back and said "keep it, they wont even look for it, sure theres about 15 behind the bar from last semester" so i kept it. handy too, my phone imploded a few days before.

what were you doing in there in the first place?

I'm sure I've kept stuff. I never seem to find money though. Oh and one time I thought I'd bagged me an ipod but some bitch came running over going "oh my god my ipod" so that was the end of that.

Luno

Money, once found an envelope full of 10's.
Decided I'd keep it because it was just over a 100 and the hassle to find the owner would cost me that much

baalthor

Seaneh wrote: »

Found one of those nokia xpressmusic phones last week in a student, handed it to the bar man

It's amazimg where people put things ...:-D

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

baalthor wrote: »

It's amazimg where people put things ...:-D

Hey! :mad:

Biggins

Have you ever found something and kept it ?

Yea, a good wife - who still somehow manages to put up with this grumpy schite.

Screwed up with the first find but got lucky with the second one.

BizAngel

Found a camera outside the local school just after Christmas. Put a free ad on www.found.ie , printed off 2 posters that they provide on the site and put them up outside the school. Owner contacted me...turns out that it was a kid who was given the camera for christmas so child and parent were delighted. Good feeling so everyone happy!!!:)

General Zod

stovelid wrote: »

A child in a meteorite crater.

He works in the metropolis as a mild mannered reporter now.

Excellent! let me know how to get to "Metropolis from planet "Heuston". I'm a... friend... of his father.

Senna

Mousey- wrote: »

found ash trays

Let me guess, just lying on a table outside a pub?

Who carries around an ash tray?

jebuz

BizAngel wrote: »

Found a camera outside the local school just after Christmas. Put a free ad on www.found.ie , printed off 2 posters that they provide on the site and put them up outside the school. Owner contacted me...turns out that it was a kid who was given the camera for christmas so child and parent were delighted. Good feeling so everyone happy!!!:)

We are all happy for you and well done and all, but this is about things you find and keep, so why don't you go get the camera back and report back to us.

rainbowdrop

I found a bag of 20 pills at Global Gathering a few years ago:cool:

I didn't keep them ALL for myself, shared them out with random people..... Happy Days:)

stovelid

General Zod wrote: »

I'm a... friend... of his father.

I don't see you on his friend list?

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=9241

admiralofthefleet

i found a brand new wallet still in the bag it was bought in about 10 years ago and im still using it.

citizen_p

Snub wrote: »

Let me guess, just lying on a table outside a pub?

Who carries around an ash tray?

no... old ones like 1930s and 20s....

but when the smoking ban came in i got like 20 as well. not nicked, just ask

j14

I was in Liffey Valley shopping centre about 7 years ago and whilst walking by the AIB ATM, the machine was beeping the "take the money" sound. I went over and there was €160 just waiting to be taken out of the machine.

I took it out and told the nearest security guard.

He went on his radio for a while but after an hour of checking with security cameras they told me to keep it.

I legged it to Virgin and myself and my mate bought a copy of GTA Vice City on the PS2 each, had a feed in Eddie Rockets & went to the cinema.

Great Day.

Atavan-Halen

I was going with my friend to collect his bike from the bike rail thing, which is a usual hang out spot for....undesirables. Anyway, I was messing and shook his bike and lo and behold a phone came flying out of it :P It was kinda crappy but I kept it. Anyway about a week later the screen broke.

Also, if anyone found a white 1st gen ipod nano in town (Dublin) between Georges st and Grafton st about two years ago in an orange case, it's mine

brummytom

I was on holiday in the Algarve back in 2007. Found this little blonde girl, she looked bored so I kept her. Maddie or Annie or something. She's polishing my shoes now

Apparently her parents mentioned it in the news, but.. you know... finders' keepers

we'llallhavetea_old

found and kept countless phones, oxegen is usually littered wit the feckin things.

jebuz

brummytom wrote: »

I was on holiday in the Algarve back in 2007. Found this little blonde girl, she looked bored so I kept her. Maddie or Annie or something. She's polishing my shoes now

Apparently her parents mentioned it in the news, but.. you know... finders' keepers

I'm telling

CrazyRabbit

I found a large black bag abandoned beside the Spire earlier. I think it belonged to this guy that was running towards a nearby car. He got in and the car sped away before I could return the bag though.

So, I brought the bag home but haven't had a chance to look through it yet. I think it's a large clock though as there is a ticking sound coming from the bag.

I'll post an update later.

rednik

The Wife.;)

rugbyman

I found 500 quid on the ground in a factory yard. i told the security man that i had found money but not the amount. Went into the canteen for my breakfast, guy came in, in a state, correctly answered the question of the amount.
I allowed him to pay for my breakfast. he was pleased . so was i.
rugbyman

Boxfresh

My girlfriend found 1000 euro in cash lying on the side of the road just before xmas! All details in this thread
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055748455

Misty Chaos

I once found a new designer wallet in the toilet of the night club I worked in, it has being gutted of all money and as I was in need of a new wallet, I went ' yoink! ' and kept it, 7 years later and I still have it.

I can also remember one night out in town, firstly finding €35 on the ground in a bar and then later the same night on the way to a disco, found a €50 note on the ground.

Nice feeling coming home with more than what you went out with!

CrazyRabbit

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I found a large black bag abandoned beside the Spire earlier. I think it belonged to this guy that was running towards a nearby car. He got in and the car sped away before I could return the bag though.

So, I brought the bag home but haven't had a chance to look through it yet. I think it's a large clock though as there is a ticking sound coming from the bag.

I'll post an update later.

Erm...does anyone have the number for the bomb squad?

Atavan-Halen

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Erm...does anyone have the number for the bomb squad?

999 Or 112 if you're feeling adventurous.