superdave- good point!!!

we found a wallet in the look west district one day. We were driving and it was laying in the middle of the road.picked it up and the dl was an out of state- town er. i cannot remember but there was a phone number in it or something so we called he said he was at an address in look west neighborhood but was leaving soon. Maybe we knocked on doors and somebody said he would be back. it was long ago. there was a car parked with out of state plates. Maybe that is how we got a number to call. I do remember he didnt seem real grateful. one of those kids with out manners.we went to the house and returned it. all this in between wedding and reception. yes we know how if feels to lose a wallet. husbands was stolen at the dmv when i was married and switching stuff around he thought he would fix dl address too. put down wallet and forgot it gone by the nest turn in those lines. SO PISSED. so had to do BOTH licences and soc sec and call credit cards etc. They got MAYBE $20. WHAT A Pain. take the cash and could have left his wallet. checked trash etc- nowhere to be found. LOSERS!!!

Since we are all sharing stories...
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My Grandpa and I were traveling to California for a wedding. He was in 1st class and I in coach. He somehow lost his wallet in Ohare, with $1600 cash in it and credit cards with limits over $50,000 on each one. Very scared.
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Long story short. The flight crew (Delta) found the wallet with everything in it in a seat pocket when the plane landed in Hawaii. They returned it. He thought he would never see anything again. Glad that Delta employees did the right thing even though it was a lot of money and probably tempting a little bit to an employee being paid not so well.
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Needless to say i am going to try and fly Delta whenever i get the chance.

In this day and age people will take your eyes out of your head and tell you the lights went out. I have lost a few things in the past never to see them again . But I also have heard of people doing the right thing. That is all we can hope for I guess it depends on what it is you have lost and how bad the person or persons that find it need it more than you do.

SuperDave: I thought the same thing. Everyone I was with said I might as well have kept it because that's all the security people were going to do (take the ipod). So, I went up to 2 Milwaukee police officers and told them about it and said I wanted to make sure it found its rightful owner. They both assured me that was the right person to give it to. I thought about calling Miller Park and asking if anyone found the items I found just to see if they were still intact. But, I chose to trust there are decent human beings out there who don't take advantage of another's plight.

Small people do grand things!!! There is still a reason to trust human nature. Most people really will do the right thing... Problem is the scum who steal and break the law, are the ones that make the papers. I would bet there are more "good-doers" than criminals.

At least I would hope so... they simply do not make the papers...

pack: Yes, there are honest people!
momof5 said "I turned it over to Miller Park personnel". This was the right (moral) thing to do. But I couldn't help but think of a situation that happened to me about twenty years ago. Coming out of the grocery store, I spotted a woman's purse sitting in an otherwise empty shopping cart. I took it into the store, and, in front of the customer service people, opened it to see if there was any cash or credit cards. There was. I then left the store, thinking that the woman would simply return and get her purse. But something about the attitude of the young kids working at the customer service desk bothered me.... So I tried to remember the woman's name, scanned the phone book, and eventually found her and called her. By this time several hours had passed, and her purse presumably had sat unattended at the store. I told her what had happened. She had no idea that her purse was not in her possession! She sounded like an older lady, perhaps in her eighties. I also told her that it appeared that nothing was missing, since the cash and credit cards were there.
My point is, that turning in the purse to the management at the place it was found, a good result depends on the integrity of the establishment (and whatever employees happen to be working). Better, might be to take it to the police. Or simply call the person and tell them directly that you found their belongings.
At any rate, glad that everything turned out in this case!

adidas...does it really matter--get a life!

"He said he'd found it in a trash bin behind a nearby Shell station"

The Dunkin Donut's store and Shell station are in the same building...how much "nearby" can you get?

Many years ago, I left my wallet at the entrance to Yosemite Park with $200.00 in it. BTW, that was a ton of money back then LOL Anyway, when I got back to WI 2 weeks later, I received a call from the man who found it. He figured I was on vacation so all he kept was the money for a phone call. Sent the wallet and the money in separate packages in case one or the other got lost. Talk about a super human being!!! Sounds like maybe it still happens??

I'm glad the woman's trip was not interrupted and ruined because some idiot decided to take what wasn't theirs!! We went to the disgraceful Brewer game on Easter Sunday. I found a jacket with an ipod in it. I turned it over to Miller Park personnel. I could've kept it, sure. But how would I have felt if that was my jacket and $200 ipod?? Golden rule folks! Golden rule!

If people would put themselves in the position of the person who lost a wallet or purse, maybe they would do the right thing, right away and turn it in. Pretty sure they would appreciate getting THEIR money & personal items back.

Theftus Interruptus.