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Wallet stolen and trackable - what would you do?
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Not so Rich nowGarrymanilow said:
He's not even called Jimmy! Get him!JiMMy 85 said:
This is promising! It's been next to the Post Office for the last hour or so, so maybe it's on its way home...1 -
I use Apple Air tags and an iPhone. When I open the FIND MY app, I tap on the thing I am looking for, then hit the FIND button it gives me an arrow and the distance to the object. I follow it, like a hi-tech game of Hot and Cold. And then I find the item. I am capable of losing my keys in a bedsit. My house does not need to be big for this to be helpful.PopIcon said:
Which room? How many wings do you have?JiMMy 85 said:
I have a tracker in it to see which room it is in when I can't find it, not to hunt down criminals.valleynick66 said:This will probably sound insensitive but I don’t mean it to be - why have a trackable wallet and then ponder your actions when the scenario you are safeguarding against occurs?
Mine just shows which property it is in, before ringing rather loudly.
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This is so exciting! It's like binge watching a Netflix crime drama.JiMMy 85 said:
This is promising! It's been next to the Post Office for the last hour or so, so maybe it's on its way home...
I can't wait to see what you post on here when, after tracking it through the postal system, it finally arrives in the post at your place, and you open it to find it's just the air tag and a hand written note saying thanks for the wallet and the £200.14 -
I tracked it through the postal service last night. This morning I woke to find it was indeed in in Dorking, and ten minutes ago it arrived at my house. No note. 40 quid missing (I assume a tenner of that was the recorded delivery) but otherwise everything else was in there. A bizarre, but welcome end to the tale of the missing wallet.Chizz said:
This is so exciting! It's like binge watching a Netflix crime drama.JiMMy 85 said:
This is promising! It's been next to the Post Office for the last hour or so, so maybe it's on its way home...
I can't wait to see what you post on here when, after tracking it through the postal system, it finally arrives in the post at your place, and you open it to find it's just the air tag and a hand written note saying thanks for the wallet and the £200.67 -
Could you have spent the missing money?JiMMy 85 said:
I tracked it through the postal service last night. This morning I woke to find it was indeed in in Dorking, and ten minutes ago it arrived at my house. No note. 40 quid missing (I assume a tenner of that was the recorded delivery) but otherwise everything else was in there. A bizarre, but welcome end to the tale of the missing wallet.Chizz said:
This is so exciting! It's like binge watching a Netflix crime drama.JiMMy 85 said:
This is promising! It's been next to the Post Office for the last hour or so, so maybe it's on its way home...
I can't wait to see what you post on here when, after tracking it through the postal system, it finally arrives in the post at your place, and you open it to find it's just the air tag and a hand written note saying thanks for the wallet and the £200.
It does seem odd that someone would only take a bit of the money, would have thought it would have been all or nothing.7 -
No, I didn't spend any money at all on Sunday other than a train ticket and that was before I got the cash out.0
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Thank your lucky stars. Pretty rare these days for someone to pickpocket you, nick 40 quid out of the 200 and then go through the trouble of posting it back to you 👍15
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The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.
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What a brilliant Christmas story ..restores your faith in humankind...its got all the makings of a film ..pad it out a bit ,create some characters and it could rival "It's a wonderful Life " ( you've got to pretend the 200 sovs was your life savings you needed to save your business and you contemplated suicide .An Angel in Royal Mail livery turns up and explains that Charlton Life and Cafc would be lost without you ..you go home to find your friends waiting for you who've had a whip round for 60 quid and the wallet in the post .JiMMy 85 said:
I tracked it through the postal service last night. This morning I woke to find it was indeed in in Dorking, and ten minutes ago it arrived at my house. No note. 40 quid missing (I assume a tenner of that was the recorded delivery) but otherwise everything else was in there. A bizarre, but welcome end to the tale of the missing wallet.Chizz said:
This is so exciting! It's like binge watching a Netflix crime drama.JiMMy 85 said:
This is promising! It's been next to the Post Office for the last hour or so, so maybe it's on its way home...
I can't wait to see what you post on here when, after tracking it through the postal system, it finally arrives in the post at your place, and you open it to find it's just the air tag and a hand written note saying thanks for the wallet and the £200.
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That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.3 -
I am glad this unfortunate episode has come to a satisfactory conclusion.
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Glad you got it back. I had a similar incident a few years ago when i found a wallet on a train when coming to Charlton.
There was a business card in it and when i called turned out to be the guys mother. Sent it back and they rang to confirm it arrived. Ok cost me about 7/8 pounds to send it but the grief the other person would have had made it worth while.19 -
I also have airtags on luggage. If the bags are lost, you at least know where they are in the world. If they are lost in destination airport (as has happened to me) you know they are there and can alert ground staff.valleynick66 said:
That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.
Also can correct Ryanair when they say they are out on the next days flight (they weren't, they were still at stansted).7 -
I was hoping this saga was going to develop into a John Wick style rampage through the dark underbelly of London. Very disappointing.16
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Presumably they offered to pay that and give you a bit extra? You'd like to think so anyway.Chippycafc said:Glad you got it back. I had a similar incident a few years ago when i found a wallet on a train when coming to Charlton.
There was a business card in it and when i called turned out to be the guys mother. Sent it back and they rang to confirm it arrived. Ok cost me about 7/8 pounds to send it but the grief the other person would have had made it worth while.0 -
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Bags get lost, my stuff would go in the cabin baggage.valleynick66 said:
That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.0 -
They did to be fair, but i declined and they did offer if i ever needed help in the future to contact them.Talal said:
Presumably they offered to pay that and give you a bit extra? You'd like to think so anyway.Chippycafc said:Glad you got it back. I had a similar incident a few years ago when i found a wallet on a train when coming to Charlton.
There was a business card in it and when i called turned out to be the guys mother. Sent it back and they rang to confirm it arrived. Ok cost me about 7/8 pounds to send it but the grief the other person would have had made it worth while.3 - Sponsored links:
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This reminded me of a couple of stories from a chap I used to work with. He messaged me late on a Saturday night saying his wife had had her iPhone stolen and he'd tracked it to Turnpike Lane near where I live (it wasn't me btw). Asked if it was worth him coming over to retrieve it and I told him 100% not to, as it was insured! Another story where a rather expensive road bike of his got robbed from his flat in Fulham. He then saw the bike on sale on gumtree or something, arranged to meet the guy, checked it was definitely his (it was) then asked for a quick test drive and stole it back! Said he was living in fear of retribution from the thieves for a couple of weeks, but they never tracked him back down haha!13
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Back in the early 80´s I was having a beer in a pub after work (since demolished to make way for Man Citys ground). I found a wallet outside that had about £20 (a lot back then), plus all the usual paraphernalia to be found in a wallet along with photo ID and his address.
The governor in the pub who I knew didn't recognise him but as I knew where his address was, I decided to take it back especially as anyone living in that area were probably on the bread line and would miss that kind of money. When he opened his door and I showed him the wallet, he burst out crying saying the £20 was all he had to live off for the next few weeks, he was in bits.25 -
I thought they didn't like airtags in baggage as they have lithium batteries. We went to the Galpogos last year, loads of flights. They said that our bags would follow us on. We waited at the carousel in Quito and up they popped. If we had not waited we wouldn't have seen them again.
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At the risk of sounding even more careless, this thread reminded me of the last time I lost something - I lost my iPhone while filming the Hartlepool fans. I left it in a pub. As the game was kicking off and I was working, my friend went up to the pub to see if it was still there, and asked the barman. "Yes we found it, someone handed it in. We gave it to someone who was going to the game, they said they would hand it over." My friend asked who that was, and the barman explained, "He was dressed up like he was in the Blues Brothers!"
There were at least five or six hundred fans dressed as Blue Brothers that day so I had to walk around the perimeter of the pitch asking if anyone had my phone. Shockingly, and almost as luckily as the returned wallet, I found it straight away!
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Kin' ell Jimmy, you should play the lottery more !!!
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He did, but lost the winning ticket.red10 said:Kin' ell Jimmy, you should play the lottery more !!!30 -
I don’t know you, but reading between the lines it’s sounds like you could go in the cabin baggage as well.ElfsborgAddick said:
Bags get lost, my stuff would go in the cabin baggage.valleynick66 said:
That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.2 -
I Think this warrants an experiment. Go to the darts the next 5 nights drop a wallet in the crowd, and let’s see how many times it comes home.0
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Brownie12 said:
I don’t know you, but reading between the lines it’s sounds like you could go in the cabin baggage as well.ElfsborgAddick said:
Bags get lost, my stuff would go in the cabin baggage.valleynick66 said:
That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.
A cheaper ticket that way actually, although not so comfortable.
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Pretty sure ryanair offer this service.Brownie12 said:
I don’t know you, but reading between the lines it’s sounds like you could go in the cabin baggage as well.ElfsborgAddick said:
Bags get lost, my stuff would go in the cabin baggage.valleynick66 said:
That’s an interesting observation. I get the broad idea but again what could you even do once you are on the plane but don’t see your luggage as in the hold?JohnBoyUK said:The airtags do give that piece of mind.
When I'm shooting weddings, I can have 2-3 bags of kit with me and leaving them unattended is the stuff of nightmares when you start to add up the value of the kit inside.
So invested in the tags and got the kensington lock things for them so they cant just be removed easily from the bags. Set the tags to alert you on movement and you know when to make a runner for them.
Also got them in my normal backpack, all our doorkeys (my wife is notorious for losing them). We also stick them in our suitcases when travelling to make sure we know the cases are on the plane, after an incident a couple or years ago.You can’t get off or do anything practical before you leave. Only be able to tell the airline on arrival your luggage appears to be at x location. I’m not sure it would give me peace of mind more than worry me for the whole flight and after whilst you still see your luggage not where it should be. Ignorance is bliss sometimes🙂
I do get it for day to day keeping tabs on keys etc.1
