On the way out to an early dinner I found a wallet in the hotel parking lot with several hundred dollars in it. I turned it in to the bell hop. The little jack off acted like it was a pain in the ass to take it to the front desk. With this economy someone would really miss that much cash. Damn that could of been a box of cohiba EL's.......

You did the right thing, too many people today do the wrong thing. I hope the bell hop and guy at the desk do the right thing now.

Good job.
Any smokes bought with that money wouldn't have just tasted good, at least in your guilty-conscious.

Good Karma is coming your way!

You did the right thing.

A few months ago my daughter who is away at college had her wallet stolen...credit cards, cash, drivers license, what a fiasco to straighten everything out.

Nicely done, Avid!

I had a similar experience last summer while living at my residence in New York.I found a wallet while out to dinner to make along story short i turned it in to the n y state troppers barracks about 1/4 mile down the road.The Sargent acted like it was the biggest deal in the world.Whats in it where was it why did you pick it up file a report etc,etc,etc.He opened it up and then it dawned on me suppose there was drugs in it or it was stolen.Well needless to say when he opened it there was quite a bit of cash inside.All of a sudden its no big deal anymore.He is trying to blow me off i couldn't see exactly what he was doing at the desk because of the height difference of the counter.At that point i left and said to myself next time i see a wallet i will just keep walking.

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Originally posted by AVIDFLYER:
On the way out to an early dinner I found a wallet in the hotel parking lot with several hundred dollars in it. I turned it in to the bell hop. The little jack off acted like it was a pain in the ass to take it to the front desk. With this economy someone would really miss that much cash. Damn that could of been a box of cohiba EL's.......

Well done Avid! I think I would have skipped the bellhop step and just tracked the person down myself - no telling what the bell hop's "finder's fee" would have been.

Good for you! It takes an honest man to do such a thing - and a respectable one at that.
Pat yourself on the back!

Good on you Flyer. You did the right thing and good will come your way.

Sometimes it is easier to contact the wallet owner personally. I did that once when I was in college. Speeds the whole process up.

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Originally posted by SHEEPSHEAD BAY:
I had a similar experience last summer while living at my residence in New York.I found a wallet while out to dinner to make along story short i turned it in to the n y state troppers barracks about 1/4 mile down the road.The Sargent acted like it was the biggest deal in the world.Whats in it where was it why did you pick it up file a report etc,etc,etc.He opened it up and then it dawned on me suppose there was drugs in it or it was stolen.Well needless to say when he opened it there was quite a bit of cash inside.All of a sudden its no big deal anymore.He is trying to blow me off i couldn't see exactly what he was doing at the desk because of the height difference of the counter.At that point i left and said to myself next time i see a wallet i will just keep walking.

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Originally posted by Steve Cohen:
Sometimes it is easier to contact the wallet owner personally. I did that once when I was in college. Speeds the whole process up.

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Originally posted by SHEEPSHEAD BAY:
I had a similar experience last summer while living at my residence in New York.I found a wallet while out to dinner to make along story short i turned it in to the n y state troppers barracks about 1/4 mile down the road.The Sargent acted like it was the biggest deal in the world.Whats in it where was it why did you pick it up file a report etc,etc,etc.He opened it up and then it dawned on me suppose there was drugs in it or it was stolen.Well needless to say when he opened it there was quite a bit of cash inside.All of a sudden its no big deal anymore.He is trying to blow me off i couldn't see exactly what he was doing at the desk because of the height difference of the counter.At that point i left and said to myself next time i see a wallet i will just keep walking.

I was thinking the same thing. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I bet that be the best.

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Sometimes it is easier to contact the wallet owner personally. I did that once when I was in college. Speeds the whole process up.

I thought of that but did not want to open it up.
Sort of like opening someones mail.I figured if you can't trust the police.Oh well my mistake i just hope the poor guy got most of it back after they took out there coffee and dougnut money.

i would have tracked them down myself to... to many dirty cops and people to not trust. I had something similar happen, i found a cell phone outside a movie theater so i looked through the numbers and found one that said "my baby" or something like that and called it they started flipping out cause i had their phone and they started accusing me of stealing it... well they came back into the parking lot and started yelling at me for having it. when they calmed down i still dont think i even got a thank you from them. They would have never found it cause i found it in 8 in of snow in the parking lot

Good job, Avid. With all the law enforcement in the world, nothing can replace basic decency.

You did the right thing...I dropped my wallet while walking in downtown San Diego...after tracing my steps for more than an hour, I received a phone call from my bank. Turns out a pedestrian found my wallet in the middle of a busy sidewalk and walked to the nearest branch. A customer service rep from the bank called me advising me the wallet had been turned in and I could come and pick it up...I only had $20 in it, which was missing when I picked up the wallet--but who cares...the amount of time I would have spent on line at the DMV getting a replacement license not to mention all the phone calls to credit card companies, etc. was well worth it and I would have given the person who turned in my wallet a small reward anyways.

I also dropped my cell phone in San Diego while I was walking (hope alzheimer's is not settling in--I'm only 48) and it was turned into a nearby restaurant. The owner called a couple of people in my personal directory who recognized my cell phone number and I ended up walking over to the restaurant to retrive my phone.

I went to an antique tractor show in Forest, Ontario, last summer with a buddy and lost my new Palm Treo phone on the fair grounds.

I panicked for a few minutes and then it occurred to me that farmers are probably the most trustworthy souls on the planet, having worked on farms in the Strathroy area throughout my teenage years. Within 5 minutes the public address system sparked up with a request for the owner of the Palm Treo to pick up their phone at the customer assistance booth. Very nice.

If I was at the CNE in Toronto, the phone would have been scoped and used.

In London I once found a wallet with about £500 in it ($1000 US?), gave it in to the guard station at Buckingham Palace as there were no police stations near. They looked at me as if i was nuts and told me they'd proccess it.. wouldn't bet on the owner ever seeing that wallet again. Wish I'd have tried to return it personally but with the dense population in London it might have been tough.

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