Taxi lost property not handed in?! Where is it?

burkey2k0

What do honest taxi drivers do when items are left in the back of their taxis
They're supposed to hand them into one of six Garda stations that handle lost property. But after having the misfortune of having to deal with losing items twice in the last few months, it doesn't seem they do it all?!
Making the most likely assumption that most taxi men are honest human beings, what do they do if they're not handing them in?!
My own experience is having left a backpack with a hoody inside in the back of a taxi. Is that guy now DEFINITELY wearing my hoody and using my backpack!! . Possible yes, but seriously bloody frustrating!

Pawwed Rig

Unless it was valuable I would say the taxi driver just dumped it. Backpack and hoodie?? Replace and move on.

Birneybau

Sold!

Elemonator

You are probably better off remembering to check the taxi before you get out! I've never left anything in a taxi, even after a night out.

2 times in 6 months is the real problem

burkey2k0

Elemonator wrote:

You are probably better off remembering to check the taxi before you get out! I've never left anything in a taxi, even after a night out.

I know I know, I usually always do. It's just so annoying that there's a way for people to get their stuff back from taxis, but the taxi men don't bother!

Elemonator

burkey2k0 wrote: »

I know I know, I usually always do. It's just so annoying that there's a way for people to get their stuff back from taxis, but the taxi men don't bother!

I suppose it would be very difficult. I wouldn't have even known to check Garda stations for lost property.

Some taxi drivers probably aren't bothered too. It'd be a trip across wherever. Most probably wouldn't return it unless it was valuable or of sentimental value.

Hope you find your stuff anyhow

Del2005

More likely the next person in took it.

Gumbo

When I was a taxi driver I never checked the back seats after each fare. Very possible the next fare got in and found the item and said nothing.

enda1

burkey2k0 wrote: »

I know I know, I usually always do. It's just so annoying that there's a way for people to get their stuff back from taxis, but the taxi men don't bother!

You should certainly definitely maybe do it in future then :P

blue_blue

Stop victim blaming the OP! Just because he leaves usually forgets his stuff in a taxi is not his fault. That's victim blaming!

eeguy

It is his fault.

Gumbo

burkey2k0 wrote: »

I know I know, I usually always do. It's just so annoying that there's a way for people to get their stuff back from taxis, but the taxi men don't bother!

It's not their job to check. It's your property so you mind it, that's what I tell my 5 year old about his toys/iPad etc.

Strumms

If you use Hailo then you always have a comeback as you can get the mobile number for the driver. I retrieved an expensive pair of ray bans that way that I left in the back of the cab and had fallen on the floor.

I use Hailo full stop as the drivers are the most professional, courteous and friendly out there. Most likely due to the fact that they are visible, identifiable and accountable to the customer and Hailo also. The dodgy ones, which there are quite a few don't want that kind of exposure and accountability.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I had a cab for five years, if I ever found anything (usually a mobile phone when it rings) I went out of my way to return it or leave it in a Garda station ~ but it really is a pain in the ass.

I rarely checked the rear of my cab so if anyone ever left anything there which I didn't find at the end of the night or next morning I'd have to assume another passenger found it and took it.

I'd hope that most drivers are honest enough and would return items found or at least leave them at a Garda station.

AnonoBoy

I've often been in the backseat of a cab and found something there. The driver would have no idea if it had been left on the seat directly behind him.

I'd tell him it was there but some folk would just rob it because some folk are dishonest.

Sleeper12

Sometimes the taxi driver doesn't see the lost items. Sometimes it's the next passengers who find it.

AlanG

OP - Often the next passenger will take items. In other cases it can often take a few days before a driver gets to hand stuff in as they have to go to certain stations and find parking and then queue for anything up to 20 mins to hand in your bag or hoodie, so time out of work and parking fees.
Taxi drivers are about as honest as society in general so some will always hand in decent stuff and some wont.

Pawwed Rig

AlanG wrote: »

Taxi drivers are about as honest as society in general so some will always hand in decent stuff and some wont.

A bag and a hoodie though? I wouldn't have thought the owner would have gone looking for it if I found it. I would have binned it as something cheap and disposable

Buckfast W

I lost car keys in a Taxi and went into Store Street to see if they were handed in. Garda let me have a root through a massive box full of keys but mine weren't there. He told me that what ever Garda station keys or anything get left in thats where they stay they don't get sent to a central station. I live in Dongahmede so if the taxi driver was from Tallaght and handed them into his local station then thats where they stay. Pain in the arse really.