Have you ever found something and kept it ?

javajoe · 18-01-2010 12:18PM #1

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 · 18-01-2010 12:20PM

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

Buford T Justice · 18-01-2010 12:23PM

Money.

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

Yeah, just money

TPD · 18-01-2010 12:26PM

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 · 18-01-2010 12:37PM

No but your da did

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

m@cc@ · 18-01-2010 12:51PM

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 · 18-01-2010 01:16PM

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 · 18-01-2010 01:24PM

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 · 18-01-2010 01:31PM

My virginity.

stovelid · 18-01-2010 01:52PM

A child in a meteorite crater.

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

rockmongrel · 18-01-2010 02:23PM

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

Buford T Justice · 18-01-2010 02:25PM

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 · 18-01-2010 02:38PM

never like keeping stuff, always try give it back.

walshb · 18-01-2010 02:43PM

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 · 18-01-2010 02:46PM

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 · 18-01-2010 02:50PM

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 · 18-01-2010 03:21PM

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 · 18-01-2010 03:41PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:00PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:13PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:20PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:29PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:30PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:33PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:38PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:43PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:44PM

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 · 18-01-2010 05:45PM

baalthor wrote: »

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

Hey! :mad:

Biggins · 18-01-2010 05:45PM

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 · 19-01-2010 12:53PM

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 · 19-01-2010 01:28PM

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.

Have you ever found something and kept it ?

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