To think that if you are at Legoland and find a bag with a brand new lego set in it...

[Blu]

...that someone had obviously just bought and then mislaid, you would hand it in?

And that if the person who took DS's new Lego set (bought with his saved up pocket money) is a Mumsnetter, they might return it?

DS knows it was his responsibililty, and is very upset, with himself and the loss of the bag with the box in it. He put it down to have his picture taken by a Lego figure, got distracted and didn't pick it up again. The legoland Customer servioces have been realy helpful, but have not found it in the shop or lost property.

Was this mean - or is it strictly finders-keepers out there???

Well, I am reminding myself that on the whole, we have benefitted far more from extreme generosity and kindness, often from relative strangers, often quite random, than we have suffered from the meanness of the minority....and yes, of course, much too soft hearted and have replaced from Argos...had he whinged and demanded another and not taken responsibility for having left the bag, we would not have relented. But one way and another he has had enough tough things to come to terms with. oh, all right, I'm a walkover and I'm trying to justify it!

You win some, you lose some, mostly people are kind and generous.

might people think that whoever left it has long gone,and might not even bother driving all the way back to get it. and that better lego has a new home that languishing forever in lost property?

just an alternative view!

people tend to hand in purses etc as they know that they have ID etc

I dont have it by the way!!!!! no lego in my house!!!!

Not nice for the little boy who lost his Lego, but, to be honest, if it was handed in, chances are that it would have gone back on the shelf anyway.

Vile- I could never live with myself, and as for parents who would let their child keep something that another child has lost they need a slap upside the head.

I certainly would have handed it in.

I don't agree though with the posters that said lego land should have offered to replace it, just lays them open to too many people wanting "replacements" for items they "put right over there by that tree/on that table/honest, that £150 train was there one minute and now it's gone."

lottie - sloney is making an observation to the Mum not the child. How is that mean to the child? I don't think it was mean - anymore than learning that 'shit happens' is mean.

I'd always hand stuff in yes & your son must be feeling bad bless him. So much to take in on a day out like that - lots of distractions & excitement so it's probably now unusal.

I like the habit have of leaving lost kiddies stuff hanging on fences or lamposts where they are found round our way. Scarves, shoes, teddys, gloves etc. But lost new toys would probably be snapped up & taken home if found on the street, I'd say. You would expect Legoland to be different from the street though.

how much was it? cant you just replace it just this once?

She did replace it, porca, post at 8:58.

Your son sounds lovely, Blu. Sorry about the added expense to the day.

Very mean thing to do. Even if it was a child who took it, the parents must have realised someone else's ds or dd has lost it.
People are unbelievable though. A friend of mine lost her engagement ring in the changing room of a department store. The next girl (an adult) to use the room just took it and brought it home. Luckily her mother saw it, asked her where she got it and persuaded her to bring it back. But what a cow to take it in the first place.

So mean - sorry for you and your DS, Blu, poor thing.

People are unbelieveable. At swimming last week DD managed to somehow cut her toe but didn't realise til she'd got out of her costume - cue hysterics, I went looking for the first aid box, came back with plaster and gauze, bumped into woman with similarly-aged little girl in tow, carrying off DD's sopping wet Charlie & Lola swimming costume -

"Oh" says me innocently "has your DD got the same costume as mine? It looks just like the one she's just taken off"

Woman shoves it at me and mutters "well it was just lying there" and buggers off out the changing room!

Brand new Lego and engagement rings you can just about think - well, they're obviously worth something, but a sopping wet cozzie?? What's wrong with people?

Some people are just mean - I'm the sort of person who picks up lost socks/mittens and props them on railings in the hope they are found, and would certainly hand anything valuable to the nearest shop/customer services.

Unlike the thieving sod that stole DD1's (obviously worn and even a bit grubby) coat from the hook on a toilet door in Asda - it was in the potty training days, I'd been so relieved to get her there in time that I forgot the coat and went back to the car, turned around as soon as I got out of the shop door and went straight back but it had gone. Even a tannoy announcement didn't help (I was staring very hard at everyone for the next 20 minutes before I gave up...)

Oh, and the person who nicked DD1's toy beanbag obviously-home-made frog from a ride in Sainsbury's just before one Xmas (supermarkets again) which meant that I was up till the early hours of Christmas Day making her another one from Santa. OK so a child may have picked it up, but if I were that child's mum I'd take it straight back in the shop.

And the total shite that nicked DD1's iPod on the train between Southampton and Basingstoke (she is 17 now, I don't leave toddlers on trains lol!)

To be fair there are some honest people - there were 6 iPods handed in that day at SouthWest Trains but none matched hers

Don't Lego land have cctv in the shop - lost property is there for property, it doesn't matter how you spin this - it was stealing from a store there are so many people and staff around that the bag could have been handed to. There was no excuse for keeping it. They must have measures in the store to prevent shoplifting so why can they not find out what happended to your son's lego?

at the wet cozzie lovecat. What is wrong with people?

DD's brand new Brownie jacket was stolen, the first night she wore it. Yes I can understand that it's easy to take the wrong one home but it never came back, and did have her name sewn and written in. A very battered old jacket did turn up though

madhairday - I am To think someone would go to the trouble of unpicking the name tape all for a (stolen) new jacket. Horrible. And if you did steal it, I suppose you hide the fact that it's stolen from your child and just tell them you got a new one?! Unbelievable!!

Someone I (unfortunately) know found a book in a WH Smiths carrier bag lying on a shelf in Woolworths, complete with receipt for £16.99. They took it back to WH Smiths and got a refund of someone else's money !!

Not only did they do that but then had the audacity to boast about their 'luck'