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Following on from the subject of found money..
Once was playing golf with my brother and we found a diamond ring by the tee box. We were walking off the last green preparing to hand it in and we spotted a guy with his face as white as a sheet, heading out without any clubs.
We asked him if he'd lost anything and he replied 'my wifes engagement ring which she asked me to keep safe during our round, shes going berserk at me'
The look on his face when we produced said item was priceless. Even better he bought us a 4 pack of beer each and 50 quid, which is a result when you are only 15...
A Rolex watch left in the pipecot of a 50 ft Ker (racing yacht) after a clear out post Cowes Week 2011.
Found the owner, easy enough as there were the same 11 of us on the boat all week.
I got a bottle of single malt and tickets at the ROH...
Video camera around 1986. Handed in to police, claimed it 90 days later. Sold it and bought a bike.
I've found two iphones this year - one halfway up a mountain pass in Colorado and one on the pavement in Edinburgh. Both got back to their owners.
My partner once found someones grandmother while jogging in a forest after dark. She heard a blood curdling scream from the woods so obviously kept running till she got home. We rang the police and apparently someones granny suffering from Alzheimer's had been missing in the area for best part of the day. Cue ride in police car into forest to try and locate where the scream had come from. Eventually after a good search we found the lady in her nightie on her knees sobbing. It was close to freezing and about midnight.
I found an iphone5 in the car park at work on pretty much the day they came out. As I arrived at the security desk there was a fairly frantic woman trying to convince them she'd been pickpocketed or kidnapped by aliens or something, rather than retracing her steps where she'd have found it no bother
kept the phone, obvz. daft bat 😉
I found a Porsche Cayenne the other week.
And I was once holding a ladder for my mate while he found £135k in cash in someone's loft.
£100000 violin, was stolen from Dutch artist performing in Manchester, contacted owner from info in case the guy asked me to keep it at home and not drop it to the police station, he flew over the next morning, I collected him from the airport and took the guy and his friend into Manchester and dropped him off to site see. He rang me on my way home to say he had left €1000 in the back for my help, I've got an open invite to stay at his hotel in The Hague if I'm ever over there too.
The wife.
The wife.
Given that mine LOST her diamond engagement ring last week, I can empathise.
Mine lost her her Tiffany diamond earrings. 👿
110 kgs of coke
A very expensive looking Tag watch in some changing rooms. Took to local police station. The owner called me to thank me the next day.
~20 years ago, a rigid forked GT Avalanche.
A Tag But Carers watch along with some cuff links by a sink in the toilets at work. Building has 6000 people in it but managed to get them back to the owner, who was very relieved and grateful.
kilo - Member
110 kgs of coke
Anr you only kept a kilo
Nothing very valuable but I've pulled a few things up from diving in quarries over the years. Mostly other divers dropped kit. Weight belts and a set of (actually very expensive) waterproof instructors notes. All found their way back the owners. I also have quite a collection of mud guards, suspension bolts and other miscellaneous bike parts found on the trails.
Cumulatively it has to be rear lights, mudguards, wallets, water bottles, glasses and RS rebound adjusters
An ipod shuffle after the Royal Parks half marathon. It was ID'd "Nikki's iPod" a nike plus attachment, and her time for the run. And a very decent saelection of tunes.
Tracked her down through the results and RPHM organisers put her in touch with me. Posted it back and she was delighted.
A Range Rover.
A Jet Ranger helicopter in Windermere.
Odd day...
A pair of Oakley's whilst doing the Grand Raid Cristalp. The guy in front had spotted them but ridden on (it was a technical bit). He shouted up to me in a very foreign accent (Belgian maybe?) "Oakleys?"
I shouted "Yes" to which he replied "Good found."
I lost them a few years later by leaving them on top of my car at Hit the North. I'd like to think they will continue to come into and go out of mtbers lives for years to come.
£60 cash. Nice little bonus.
My wife found a wallet with £200 in it, with all the owners details.
There was also a folded up wrapper with what appeared to be Charlie in it
She donated the money to the local NSPCC who were most greatful, and posted the wallet anonymously to the local plod shop
Bless her
That's a pretty nasty thing to do, really.
Not according to her it wasn't . I told her to keep the money and ditch the wallet if she wanted to make a point...,,
But no , she thought it was the morally right thing to do ( she's a bit straight laced like that )
Good christian moral values?
Nah, she just doesn't like drugs. Doesn't drink, smoke or drink coffee either.
Sometimes wonder what I see in her 😆
I was cycling in France once and passed a young cow which was obviously stuck in quite a deep ditch. About two miles up the road a guy in a van stopped me and asked if I'd seen a cow. With my limited French I just about understood what he was after.
The route back to the cow was a bit convoluted so I gesticulated putting the bike in the back of the van and said I would show him where the cow was which I duly did. He was very grateful and rattled off a load of compliments to which I replied "Vive la France!" and rode off laughing.
I have no idea how he got the cow out of the ditch.
^^^^ That story reminds me of when I found a goose at the end of the entrance crawl to Little Neath River Cave. It was a few hundred feet in stuck on a ledge above the stream . Bear in mind the entrance crawl is just big enough to squeeze along on your side with about 4 inches of fast flowing water coming through it and it was a bit of a fight getting said goose back out to day light. Poor beggar wasn't very happy with the situation, something I put down to the fact it was only a week before Christmas. The farmer was most grateful though to get him back 🙂
Like Drac says the wife.... if I ever add it up....
The wife.
Why is divorce so expensive? Cos it's worth it
A reservoir of oil? Technically it wasn't just me who found it, so wasn't able to do anything about making money from it...
35k worth of lead lining the walls of one of the imaging suite rooms in a disused hospital we were using under license as an airsoft site.
£100000 violin, was stolen from Dutch artist performing in Manchester, contacted owner from info in case the guy asked me to keep it at home and not drop it to the police station, he flew over the next morning, I collected him from the airport and took the guy and his friend into Manchester and dropped him off to site see. He rang me on my way home to say he had left €1000 in the back for my help, I've got an open invite to stay at his hotel in The Hague if I'm ever over there too.
Really? 😮
she's a bit straight laced like that )
Sounds more judgemental than straight laced to me.
How did she know it was coke?
You don't tend to stick a wrap of Homepride in your wallet.
Straight laced? More like vindictive.
And if one knows who the money in a wallet belongs to and one takes that money, it is called stealing.
Doesn't matter if you then give it to charity or spend it at the bookies.