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Stuff you find on streets

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eastie
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by eastie »

put mail through a house before and the door swung open with a rottweiller staring at me from the end of the hall and started running towards me and I slammed the door quick
templek
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by templek »

I saw a fiver in someones front garden on an estate. I knocked on the door and told them. The lady said she has not been outside yet so it was not her's so i could have it!

Not long after i started, I once saw a £10 note in in someones front garden. I did not pick it up in case it was a 'plant' and someone was watching!
Glyno
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Post by Glyno »

bertie wrote:Keys in doors - have you ever had any thanks ? I usually get ' yes I know ' - thanks a lot.
loads of times.

I once knocked on a door to hand over a huge bunch of keys only to get an earfull from this bloke who I'd woken (he'd come in off nights and left the keys in the door).
If it happens again at the same house I fear the keys might find the nearest grid!
arnold cheshire
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by arnold cheshire »

templek wrote:I saw a fiver in someones front garden on an estate. I knocked on the door and told them. The lady said she has not been outside yet so it was not her's so i could have it!

Not long after i started, I once saw a £10 note in in someones front garden. I did not pick it up in case it was a 'plant' and someone was watching!
yes the ib would have put it there to test you
krussel
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by krussel »

templek wrote:I saw a fiver in someones front garden on an estate. I knocked on the door and told them. The lady said she has not been outside yet so it was not her's so i could have it!

Not long after i started, I once saw a £10 note in in someones front garden. I did not pick it up in case it was a 'plant' and someone was watching!
Ive found wallets, purses and mobile phones on the driveways of customers and always knocked and handed them back.

I once found a bulging purse near xmas time,which had been out all night on the pavement , i opened it and it was stacked with cash and i reconised the name on a credit card so knocked on their door and handed it across. To my surprise the women barely made any comment but went on to have a moan about a parcel she was waiting for, i was gob smacked :left:

Another time i found a nice mobile and handed it to my dom. He rang the owner and they came down and collected it. They came back the next day with 2 bottles of wine and the tight git kept them both. :confused

If i find any cash on the street then its straight in the old sky rocket but over 20 odd years that prob does not even add up to a tenner. :sad:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
ApuChunk
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by ApuChunk »

A peacock right next to someones front door! I didnt think it was real either until I got right next to it and it moved. Scared the sh*t out of me hahaha!
Astrapuss
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by Astrapuss »

It's so satisfying when you find £20 on the drive of a customer you don't care for. :dance
Midnight+13
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by Midnight+13 »

Found several expensive mobile phones over the years, took them back to the office and phg called a number in address book. All got claimed by the owner. Never even got a thank you. Will keep any I find from now on. Ungrateful feckers. :no no :no no
Zootsuit
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by Zootsuit »

Most dissapointing thing i found on the streets recently was me, soaked to the skin delivering nuisance mail on Christmas Eve.
I can hardly wait to find me doing the same again on 2 Jan.
royalmailslave
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by royalmailslave »

templek wrote:
Not long after i started, I once saw a £10 note in in someones front garden. I did not pick it up in case it was a 'plant' and someone was watching!

Are you mad? It's not like you've stolen anything?
royalmailslave
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by royalmailslave »

I reckon I've found just over £100 in the 15 yrs I've put n
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

royalmailslave wrote:
templek wrote:
Not long after i started, I once saw a £10 note in in someones front garden. I did not pick it up in case it was a 'plant' and someone was watching!

Are you mad? It's not like you've stolen anything?
The law would beg to differ:

Theft by finding

Theft by finding may be considered as a type of theft by appropriation. A person does not steal goods merely by finding them, even if he retains the goods for some time after the discovery. Such a person may, for a reasonable time, be presumed to possess the goods with the intention of returning them to their true owner. Once that reasonable time has elapsed, however, it may be presumed that the finder has appropriated the goods to his own use, and at that point, theft has occurred.
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by mandelsons_toenail »

A few years ago I was delivering a town round, a lady stopped me in a disability scooter and said there was some money on the floor a few yards up on pavement and she couldn't reach it. She scooted off, so I was expecting a quid or so.

£25 just sat there :Very Happy

So I did the decent thing, picked it up and scarpered :Applause

:dance

Cheers lady
Lounge Lizard
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by Lounge Lizard »

Astrapuss wrote:It's so satisfying when you find £20 on the drive of a customer you don't care for. :dance
- A £20 note probably 'planted' by the IB ? :shock:
bunkerland
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Re: Stuff you find on streets

Post by bunkerland »

Two twenty pound notes in a bank bag(got back after 8 weeks from police station) A flute in a case and a golf club(new).
One old timer in our office found a severed hand in a pillar box some years ago,just ordinary stuff really! :shock: