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Perhaps next time he loses it with all pin numbers etc somebody will not be so honest and will lift his money from his bank account.

How rotten,,,,,,hope nothing awful has happened to him or his family that at present that its taken priority!!!

What an ungrateful man ! Your husband IS well entitled to a thank you.

Mind you...I'm a believer in karma......maybe next time he won't BE so lucky and will appreciate your husbands actions more with hindsight x

Maybe he had something to hide!!!! ;-)

28 yrs ago when my son was 6 he found a £20 note in the doorway of a shop. We took it into shop , but they did not want to know. So we took son to nearby Police Station, officer winked at me and said to son "if someone comes in and claims that bank note number we will give him your address" needless to say son was able to keep money. A lesson learned that has kept him in good stead.

Carol

Many years ago son found a £20 all folded up on the floor of one of the village shops. He thought it might belong to an old person and handed in to the owner of the shop and said he would check if it had been claimed. A few days later he asked owner who denied all knowledge of the money.
Son was furious. I cancelled our papers and from then on we all used the other shop but I made sure everyone I knew was aware of this behaviour.

Your husband deserves a thank you.I once lost my purse off the shade of my pram.My children were small and i never had any spare money.I was devastated.Phone the police on the off chance it MAY of been handed in?It had been handed in by a elderly man.I picked my purse up from police station and went around to see the gent.He was a lovely man that lived with his daughter.I had flowers sent to his daughter to say thank you as he would not accept anything.It made me believe that everyone is honest? I found a purse a few weeks ago in a cafe and handed that over to the staff.I doubt now after this amount of time he will get a thank you.Sad society we live in.
Annie

Absolutely, but there are some very ungrateful people out there. Yes, a thank you would have been lovely x

maybe he did ,but if i had lost about 1,000 pounds of phones,credit cards(some with pin num)driving licence with photo,date of birth ext,and cash,in this day and age i would be bowing at the feet of the person who took it into the police station,if that had got into the hands of a criminal(and we have our fair share here in angelsey)it could have been very bad,my husband never wanted any reward,but a thank you would have been nice.x :-0

That is so sad, it makes you lose a bit of faith in humanity. I was a bit disappointed not to have a personal thank you from the guy that lost his wallet outside a neighbouring golf course (apparently he placed it on the roof of the car before driving off). That's when I found it fluttering in the breeze. However, he probably had to be catching his flight home.

At least your husband can hold his head up knowing that he did the right thing :-)

Ann - he could always have rung the police station back to get them! Hope he loses them again and for good next time.

Words fail me. What a miserable ungrateful person. I'd feel like writing to the local paper saying something like 'pleased that the gentleman who lost his bag retrieved it from the police station, be nice to get a thank you' etc. Maybe he lost the contact details.

That is so disgusting.

hubby went to police station today to ask about the bag,he was told that the owner picked the bag up from the local station 3days after my hubby took it in(nearly four wks ago) his details were gien to the owner and now over four wks later,not even a thank you phone call. x

I was once driving past our local golf course and saw something fluttering on the edge of the road. I was sure it looked like bank notes. I backed up to find an open wallet containing £720 in notes and a flight home ticket. I took it to the police station. The following week a lady turned up with a bottle of wine and some biscuits saying the the gentleman from abroad had given her £10 and asked her to get something for me.

I was wondering about "the bag story".

Perhaps the police no longer contact people in cases like this, but wait for THEM to report it lost or stolen....in which case, how would the chap know which police station to contact if he's not local, ie a travelling salesman or someone on holiday, and didn't even notice the bag gone until the next stop when it was needed.
What if he'd stopped to get petrol, filled up and then on going to pay, realised he no longer had his bag.....oooops!!!!!!! :-0

If he has got the bag back, and doesn't know who handed it in, then he may (if he's a nice person) place a notice in the classifieds of your local newspaper, so keep your eye out!!! I've seen notices on similar lines in our little freebie weekly paper ...."many thanks to the kind person who handed in my purse which I'd dropped when I was in town last Saturday"....type of thing.


K

We found a purse on the pavement about 2 yrs ago now
we handed it into our local police station and we had to give our name and address in case the owner wanted to thank us ...which she did by sending a card with a cheuqe , but we never cashed the cheuqe .
Hazelx .

Sounds like the sort of bag a taxi driver uses (my husband,son and friends all cabbies) use a bag like this. So glad someone honest found it, we have so often found things left by accident in back of cab, and I remember once having to go to the bakers for a large cake box to return a man's fur hat to Germany, he had left it in the cabin on the way to the airport, we received a lovely letter in return + a reward.

I,m not sure whether the Police would have contacted the owner. As far as they are concerned it is up to him to get in touch with them.

As for giving him contact details for the person who found the bag. I doubt they would have done that either. As for saying thank you. If the police didnt give him any contact details he couldnt say thank you.

The only way you will know if it has been collected is by ringing the Police yourself.

Jane

I hope the bag is returned to it's rightful owner & he is lucky that your husband found it. Last year I had to drop a prescription in at our doctors on my way to work. It was about 5.45 am as I start work at 6am. It was dark but I noticed something laying in the carpark, went to have a look on my way back & it was a small leather bag, very damp & quite heavy. I picked it up & took it to work & told my boss. We looked through it & it belonged to one of the dr's at our pacttice. Inside was a copy of his passport, money, his checkbook, lots of other bits but also blank prescriptions. We called the police & they came to my work place & picked it up. We think he put it on top of his car as he unlocked & then drove off, so could have been there for hours. Well I never heard a thing, did'nt want a reward but was annoyed that I did,nt even get a thankyou from him. I still would hand things in even knowing I might not get a thankyou.
Hilary