Finders Keepers?? AirPods

Ew, putting a stranger’s air pod in your ear 🤢🤢 just no. Also agree it’s not finders keepers.

@DaisyHaites

maybe, but they are only 10 miles away, so totally irrelevant and they are quite likely to have been wrecked left down at the beach.

It's not just the fact he thinks it is fine to keep it without trying to find the owner, it's how much he is belittling you for trying to do the right thing. That's really, really unattractive behaviour.

Is there no local Lost & Found FB group in your area? If there is, put up a post mentioning where they were found and see if anyone makes contact.

Sorry OP, you've got a far bigger problem going on here than the AirPods. I'm sure you're aware of this 😕 good luck.

DH dropped his phone and didn’t realise for a few hours.

When we tracked it it was hundreds of miles away.

We called it and the guy answered saying he was on holiday at lost location and had just driven home.

He sent it through the post. All very innocent. And very nice/good of him!.., I gave him £60

Wouldn’t it be a shame if your husband’s phone fell out of his pocket and he never got it back from whoever found it because “finders keepers”. On a serious note though he sounds like he has little to contribute to raising a kid with good morals. Why are you sticking with him?

I think I’d be arranging for someone, iPhone in hand, to knock on the door asking about the AirPods. Then they can give them to you and you can report them as found (easily done online).

Yes. Do the right thing! And take your DS! Ignore the horrible man with no morals.

Please don't let your son turn out like your husband. You still have time to teach him the right thing, even if that means taking the airpods and handing them into the police (or lost property etc) yourself despite his protests.
Screw what your moral black-hole of a husband thinks.

What a horrible example your DH is.setting to your DC. I once found a wallet stuffed with cash in a car park just before Christmas. I obviously handed it in to the local police station. The owners of the wallet were delighted and came round with a bunch of flowers. Which was unexpected but made me feel lovely. A win-win all round!

Well the only moral thing to do with finding anything is to turn them in. X

I have found a few things before and helped the owners locate them by posting on local Facebook pages. I also left at a child's phone at a local hotel and joined and posted on a local Facebook site (I didn't know it was a child's phone at the time). I didn't want to take the phone back with me as I was 30 miles from home.

The 2 occasions when it was a mobile the owners were so relieved to find the phones. Both belonged to children. The parents said they were very distressed. I think your DH is being very selfish and I'm sorry he didn't listen to you. Hopefully the owner will be in touch. I would be tempted to post on local pages anyhow and hopefully the owner will be in touch. I would also be taking the AirPods off my DS and explain the reasons why.

Your DH is leading a bad example and you are trying to lead the right example. Well done :)

Report it online as found property to the police... They won't insist on you physically handing it in, and if no one claims them after a month, you can keep them guilt free.

You definitely can't keep! It's stealing, legally.
Also, if theyre legit, they DO have tracking, a very intimidating man showed up at my house last week, claiming his stolen jacket with airpods inside the pocket was pinging GPS in our street. Which house it thought they were in kept switching, but ours was one of 3 it showed in multiple times. He was out there for hours, watching the house, and my dad had to literally tell him we'd told him multiple times we didn't have his stuff, and if he didn't move from parked outside our house he was going to call the police.
You have no idea who they belong to, or what they'd be willing to do to get them back.

For some reason, this thread has really upset me. They could have been lost by a 13 year old lad, his Xmas pressie perhaps.

Your husband is a twat.

My DH once had a fungal infection in his ear. He wears AirPods…

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My son has found 2 phones on the beach. The first one I took to the beach cafe and managed to call the owner. They were tourists, so well out of the area, but I left the phone at the cafe for them to return to collect. The other time, we found a man looking for his phone and gave it to him, he gave my young son £5 for finding it.
YANBU your DH is teaching your son poor morals.
When my DC was around 5, they left their brand new Nintendo DS, that they had been given for their birthday, in the swimming pool changing rooms. It can’t have been more than a few minutes before we realised and rushed back. It was nowhere to be seen, someone had stolen it. I reported it to the staff and rang a couple of times in case it turned up. My DC was heartbroken and, as a single parent, I couldn’t afford to replace it. Some people are just awful and have no morals. They took it knowing that it belonged to a young child, it had stickers on it.

Feel really sad reading this, your DH really has low standards and it’s so sad he’s passing this message on to your son 😞. Feeling very sad for the poor person (maybe another child/teenager who saved up to buy them). Imagine if your DH lost his phone/wallet and someone just swiped it.

He’s a real shit.

Haha same wavelength as me 🤣

How will he deal with something that can't be traced?
Say he found a bracelet on the path... was one of those ones made with a loved ones ashes. You can't track that... and it is clearly a sentimental item that can't be replaced. Would he be ok pulling the 'finders keepers' crap?

I’d seriously hide one of your partner’s important possessions and not say a word. Make sure your DS hears him being annoyed. When you’re alone with DS say ‘do you think that’s how the owner of the AirPods might feel?’.

Also he is an abusive twat talking to you like that in front of your son and I wouldn’t stand for it.

If I lost them on my local beach and they were now 50 miles away, I’d be pretty annoyed with whoever moved them!

I would slowly and stealthily lose every single thing he owns.

Christ your DH sounds like a proper tramp trying to get a child to pocket something like that. How embarrassing.
Put them on the local fb page- we didn’t a phone we found and located the owner quickly