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[shyboy]

I'm feeling quite uplifted by this.
Last Friday my daughter-in-law took two of her daughters and grandchildren for a short family break in a cottage in Yorkshire, which they use every year, and made a stop at one of the motorway service stations en route. On arriving at the destination she suddenly realised that she didn't have her purse, containing £200 cash, but thankfully no credit cards or other critical stuff.
She rang the service station immediately, giving as much detail of her movements as possible, but as expected they had no information, and she wrote it off as irrevocably lost, and despite my son's philosophical approach to this she was obviously very upset.
She returned home yesterday in time to fly today for another pre-arranged short break to stay with friends in Spain with her husband, and they arrived there an hour ago.
My grand daughter has just rung to tell us that the service station have telephoned their home to report that the purse has been found, with its contents intact, and she's got the pleasant job of texting her Mum in Spain to give her the news.
We don't yet know how it was discovered, but obviously one or more people have displayed great honesty here.
It is so nice to know that these people do still exist, and it's really bucked me up.

[Andy B]

 

[TheBoy]

Always good to hear

[New POD]

When I was a lad, a mate of mine found a wallet with cards and 30  x one pound notes in it, and a couple of business cards and 2 jonnies.  He put a pin through each of the condoms are returned it all to the rightful owner who didn't offer him a single £1 note as a reward.

It always amused me that somehow my mate knew he wouldn't get a a reward so decided he'd attempt to opps up the guys life as karma in advance.

[Olympia5776]

There is a Facebook page for our little town over here which was originally a buy/sell/exchange forum . Over time it's morphed into a sort of local community news page too.
The times I see pets ,wallets ,purses,debit cards ,keys and expensive telephones being posted as found is amazing and quite heartwarming.
There are good people out there .

[omegod]

Aye we have one of those pages but Saturday/Sunday morning it's full of "I lost my handbag last night, possibly in " followed by a list of 5-10 pubs. Amazing how little care people take care of £800 worth of phone, passport + purses when bladdered.

Some do get reunited though which is nice

I believe Police don't deal with lost property anymore but I guess if I walked in with 10k cash I'd just found they would change their tune   

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

There is a Facebook page for our little town over here which was originally a buy/sell/exchange forum . Over time it's morphed into a sort of local community news page too.
The times I see pets ,wallets ,purses,debit cards ,keys and expensive telephones being posted as found is amazing and quite heartwarming.
There are good people out there .

But that's County Kerry Don. A different (and altogether nicer) place to much of the rest of the world. 

[shyboy]

A little more info. now about this.
My son has gone off to Huddersfield today to collect the purse, having learned that the delay in contacting his home address was due to the fact that it contained no detailed personal information apart from a bus pass.
Whoever is dealing with this in the motorway services company used this to contact the issuing authority by phone, who supplied a contact phone number on hearing the circumstances, and enabled the finder to contact my son's home.
I have no doubt that there will be noises made by some about the correctness of a phone number being given out, but my opinion is that someone has used a lot of that rare commodity, common sense, to secure a very satisfactory outcome to an upsetting event.
When identified they will be thanked appropriately by a very grateful lady, who happens to be a local magistrate, and sees the other side of the coin all too frequently in her work.
 

[BazaJT]

Good outcome with a bit of common sense by the issuing authority of the bus pass.That's very refreshing indeed