To be so annoyed that someone has found something of mine and not handed it in?

[Placeanditspatrons]

I mean, yes, I am. I know I am really but I'm so fucking annoyed.

In a shop right by the way out and dd was in her pushchair. There was one of those little car ride things by the exit so took dd out and the pushchair fell over. My bag was nearly - but not quite - zipped up as I'd just got my purse out and I presume this must have been when I lost the item as I hadn't taken it out anywhere since leaving home.

It's of no value to anyone else, although at first glance may appear to be a phone or MP3 style player. It is actually a self funded piece of medical equipment.

I'm so pissed off. This is proof if ever it were needed that karma does not exist. I've handed in everything I've ever found, right down to the £2.50 left behind change in a self serve last week.

Obviously it's my fault (and I'm cross at myself) but I'm also very cross at whoever has picked it up and kept it. It will go in a bin once they realise it is of no value to them. It happened right by customer services and the tills so would have been very easy to just give it in to someone.

Cocobatter, have you tried phoning it again? He might be waiting for your call!! Call the office and ask them to ask the drivers too x

Pansy if you find something on the street, there is no longer anywhere to 'hand it in'.

Even if the police still accepted lost property, our nearest police station is nearly 10 miles away and only open part time

When I found cash I called 101 and registered it that way.

I lost a purse at Centre Parcs...had a fair bit of cash in it so it was kinda my own fault what happened but it still really annoyed me. Someone handed it in, but not before they emptied it of money (left 1p...which also took the piss) and bank cards. Handed in a purse with nothing but 1pence and a costa coffee card. Fuckers. I was so happy when the guy said it had been handed in, then quickly deflated when I realised nothing was in it. A photo of my grandmother had also been taken.

How mean. Taking the photo was particularly unkind.

My confidence in the human race is regulalry shaken I must admit!

place could you use the app for now? Or is it too late? How frustrating .

monkey I bet someone emptied it and dropped it, and then someone else handed it in.

A bus driver once looked at me like I was insane for handing in some money I'd found.

monkey I bet someone emptied it and dropped it, and then someone else handed it in.

Yeah I like to think thats what happened, otherwise its just downright cruel IMO.

I found some keys a while ago outside my house I took them in to hand in - 3 months later I had done nothing with them. I managed to text the workman who had been at my house that day but they were not his.

Maybe a child picked it up or it got kicked a distance, someone picked ir up and got distracted.....or it was stolen

It is always easiest to think the worst but 9 times out of my 10 it's simply human incompetence.

Eightlegs could you swap the battery out for a different one and see if it turns on then? If it does then just write down a few numbers stored in it and call them.

starry it's difficult to replace an iPhone battery

Ah I see. I've only ever bought Samsungs, didn't realise that Iphones were sealed units too. What about swapping the sim?

re the iPhone - I think you can report it using 101 and there is also a website used by my local police force called Virtual Bumblebee where people can report lost and found items (though it says you have to report to the police as well). It must have a serial number on it - which you can use as an identifier. However if it has been out in a wet field for a while it may well be completely broken.

How nice of you to try to reunite it with the owner. And I also found absolutely heart warming the story from the poster who gave £10 to the young lad. It would have made his day.