Good news for someone

• David H

  • Location: Dover
  16 February 2010     18:2440793
  #1      
  Linda and Victoria were sledging on Friday at Whitfield Hill and they found a very nice, expensive mobile phone in the snow.
  
  Linda took it to the Police Station on Saturday and at the very same time at the counter behind her were the people who had lost it! What an amazing coincidence to be able to return it immediately, the teenager owner was over the moon as it was a Christmas present and she later turned up at our house with a box of chocolates as thanks - they were eaten very quickly by us all.
  
  Second coincidence is that Linda knew the mother through her school contacts - they had spoken many times on the phone, but they had never met - wasn't until they exchanged names that they found out.
  
  A happy story for you.
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 2,262
  16 February 2010     18:3440795
  #2      
  Thats a lovely story with a happy ending there David, well done Linda & Victoria Briony lost her phone too in the snow in London and I had a call from a very nice lady who found me (Mum) listed on her phone. Briony went around to her to collect it with a bunch of flowers to say thank you, there are still some very nice people about
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 14,118
  16 February 2010     19:0640799
  #3      
  Both very good storys just like last year when I lost well over £100 in River and a lady picked it up,told the girls in the co-op she had it and left her address and I went in asking if anyone had pick any money up,and I got it back.and that was not the first time it had happen to me but always got it back.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  16 February 2010     19:1140800
  #4      
  i have always found that the vast majority of people are honest.
  
  i don;t know of anyone that would not try to trace the owner of a wallet or purse, or just hand in at the police station.
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
  • Posts: 4,150
  16 February 2010     19:1640802
  #5      
  The biggest problem today is not just the money, but any plastic cards you may have, all of which will need reporting and replacing if you don`t get them back.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  16 February 2010     19:5540813
  #6      
  Jean lost an expensive watch (Raymond Weil) I'd bought her the first time she wore it. It was found and handed in to the Police station, much to both our relief.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 686

  • Registered: 5 May 2009
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  17 February 2010     18:3840910
  #7      
  Sort of restores your faith in human nature a bit, though if Vic is going to make a habit of losing money he might as well give it away to a worthy cause instead - then he wouldn't have any to lose!!
  Phil West
  If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,463
  18 February 2010     00:4240937
  #8      
  I once handed a wallet I found into the cop shop and later found myself being interrogated as to where the alleged cash it had apparently contained had gone and found myself being treated like a thief.... I thought why the hell did I bother on a second occasion I found a mobile phone on Pencester but couldn't had it in til the next day as I was getting a train to London and thought it best to hand it in at Dover the following day...I was then questioned at length as to why it took 24 hours for me to report it????? and one closing shot I passed over a very nice gold designer watch I found in the snow and went back to the old bill 3 months or so later to enquire if it had been claimed..."We 'av no record of a watch being handed in Sir are you sure it was this police station you handed into?"...allo allo.!!!!! Now I don't bother picking anything up but just leave it for someone else to find...sorry...but there it goes.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)