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Wallet stolen and trackable - what would you do?
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I'm going back 40 years and found a wallet/purse on the train on the way to Bellingham. As I lived opposite Catford police station it made sense to hand it in there.I was then asked to fill a form in, which I was happy to do.A few weeks later I received a letter from the owner of said wallet/purse, they were very grateful and said some very nice things.Fortunately we never did meet as they may have retracted their comments!It's nice to be nice.6
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valleynick66 said: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 -
PragueAddick said:valleynick66 said: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.
My point was it my worry me / frustrate me as much as anything 🙂
On a related note I did once work with someone who had their 2 week holiday cases mislaid for several days with 2 young kids. Taught me the value of mixing your contents when travelling as a family and not an individual case of just your own clothes.0 -
There was a discussion about this very topic on the James O'brien show today. If you haven't heard it, it's well worth a listen just for Adam in Kent's story about driving up to Manchester to recover his stolen phone.0
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O-Randy-Hunt said: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 👍
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MrOneLung said:O-Randy-Hunt said: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 👍5
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IdleHans said:MrOneLung said:O-Randy-Hunt said: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 👍0
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valleynick66 said: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 -
JiMMy 85 said: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?3
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eaststandmike said:valleynick66 said: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.You may then worry about it all throughout the flight. As I said ignorance may be better sometimes.I’m not suggesting tags aren’t a clever bit of kit just not sure about the peace of mind thing when an airport is involved.0 - Sponsored links:
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I've handed a wallet I've found on the street to the police, and in return I've left a wallet on the train and it's been handed in, no money taken either time. I also got really drunk once, left an award (not even my award) on the train and got that back. Only thing I've ever lost was a popcorn maker (but did get bag with all my uni work back)... You'd think I'd learn. I asked the guys at the station what the strangest thing left on a train was. Answers include a child in a pram and an artificial leg6
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Living on the route to the beach it's surprising how much stuff gets left behind when the grockles load up at the end of the day to go home. And the amount of rubbish the dirty buggers dump deliberately. Loads of beach stuff, camping seats and whatnot but I reckon i've reunited at least 5 people with the mobiles that they've dropped over the last few years and a couple of wallets.
Only 1 person has ever offered me a reward - a fiver that I obviously turned down. If someone saved me the hassle of dealing with the fall out from the banks, etc. I'd offer them a kidney if they needed it, but each to their own I suppose.4 -
In a similar vein the most interesting/strange thing I've ever found was a copper's utility belt. Everything on it, cuffs, CS spray, first aid kit, everything a crime fighter needs. Baffles me how they didn't know they'd lost it but, being the honest citizen I am, I handed it in at the local nick.
For my sins I got treated more like I'd nicked it than found it lying in the road and even though I insisted they take my details I didn't get so much a courtesy call of thanks from whichever numbnuts had lost it.
Unlikely to ever happen again but it's finders keepers next time.6 -
I used to live in a basement flat on Plumstead High Street, opposite the Nick. One morning as I left there was a knife on my steps. I took it across to the Police station to hand it in. The geezer behind the jump said 'what do you want me to do with it'. I suggested police type stuff and walked out.11
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Slight tangent but a colleague of mine who was decent in jujitsu was at the end of Fenchurch st where they had those police booths, bloke got out of a car holding a hand gun and ended up flat on his back in a goose neck wrist lock. My colleague shouted over to the old bill manning the booth for help, they said let him up, he's one of us. They then took up the rest of his lunch hour questioning and giving him a hard time coz he had shown one of them up.
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BalladMan said:valleynick66 said: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).
When we went out to Mexico a couple of months ago, the cargo door on the plane didn't open for 2hrs due to a technical problem. So we stationed ourselves in a cafe until the cases actually started moving. Think standing around for 2hrs like everyone else on the flight did would finish the kids off!
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I found a wallet containing £40, a driving licence. a couple of cards and a business card that enabled me to contact him via his company. I found the wallet in the gutter of a road I was walking along en route to a sports centre.
I didn't really want to hold onto it or have him come to my house, so I told him that I'd hand it in to the receptionist at the sports centre (saying I found it in the car park). He seemed happy enough with that, but said he'd like to meet me. After he picked the wallet up he called again to thank me and say he'd like to meet me. I told him I was happy that he was happy and that was the end to it.
Quite unlikely I know, but it crossed my mind that had he been missing more money he might have taken me to task for it0 -
A few years ago I found a wallet near to where I live.
I started to go through it to see if anything had a local address on but all I found was around £200 of tightly folded up notes put in different compartments, a bank card and bus pass.
The bus pass had a photo on it and it turned out it belonged to the bloke who regularly travelled on the same bus as I took to and from work, but had continuously bugged my journeys by constantly whistling.
My other half persuaded me that tracking him down and offering a settlement of ‘no more whistling’ in return of the wallet wasn’t an option so I handed it in to Eltham Police Station, filled in a form, then was contacted a few days later saying the person had collected it and left me a tenner.
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JiMMy 85 said:Stig said:I suppose calling the cops would be a stupid answer.1
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I lost my wallet in Locksbottom Sainsburys car park a few months back. I returned home and within 2 hours a guy knocked on my door to return it.
There are some good people around, you generally hear about the bad ones.15 - Sponsored links:
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PrincessFiona said:JiMMy 85 said:Stig said:I suppose calling the cops would be a stupid answer.4
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charltonkeston said:I lost my wallet in Locksbottom Sainsburys car park a few months back. I returned home and within 2 hours a guy knocked on my door to return it.
There are some good people around, you generally hear about the bad ones.5 -
We had AirTags in 4 suitcases and we had a flight cancelled from Chambery and put on one from Lyon I think and we were told there wasn’t time for the cases to come on board cos the staff were limited on time to work .
The next day I knew they had arrived at Heathrow but BA were saying nothing .
I went to the Airport and after Two hours of fannying , they initially claimed from the airport that they were still in France, I was eventually let through to left luggage to get to them .
Without AirTags I’m not sure how long the whole process would have lasted because BA were beyond useless in the whole situation .11 -
JiMMy 85 said:PrincessFiona said:JiMMy 85 said:Stig said:I suppose calling the cops would be a stupid answer.
And worth clarifying you wouldn't have called 999 ordinary, but thought it worth it due to the proximity to the police station1 -
Back in July a young meet & greet driver at Gatwick left his mobile phone in our car after he’d brought it back to us at the terminal, we didn’t notice it until it started ringing as we reached the M25, he’d left it in the middle console.
I wasn’t going to turn around at that point (I’m nice but not that nice) but asked him for his address and posted it back to him recorded delivery the next day, he did offer to pay me back but I declined.4 -
RalphMilnesgut said:I used to live in a basement flat on Plumstead High Street, opposite the Nick. One morning as I left there was a knife on my steps. I took it across to the Police station to hand it in. The geezer behind the jump said 'what do you want me to do with it'. I suggested police type stuff and walked out.2
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With a recent software update on my Apple watch when I'm away from home I get an alert when I walk a certain distance away from my iPad. It tells me where it is1
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RaplhMilne said: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.
Helsinki came out as the most honest city, followed by Mumbai and Budapest.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-000-wallets-around-the-globe-can-teach-us-about-honesty
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-000-wallets-around-the-globe-can-teach-us-about-honesty2 -
Crusty54 said:With a recent software update on my Apple watch when I'm away from home I get an alert when I walk a certain distance away from my iPad. It tells me where it is5