'Have some faith in humanity…20 tales of good deeds'

JimmyTheWig

Denando wrote: »

My new phone doesnn’t have this home screen function. Think I need to find a way to have it displayed … just in case!

Write the numbers on a piece of paper and selotape it to the back of your phone?
Does your phone allow a photo as a backdrop / wallpaper? If so, take a photo of the relevant phone numbers.

Or just ensure you store a relevant number as "Home" in your phone and anyone who wants to return your phone will manage to find it.

Denando

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Write the numbers on a piece of paper and selotape it to the back of your phone?
Does your phone allow a photo as a backdrop / wallpaper? If so, take a photo of the relevant phone numbers.

Or just ensure you store a relevant number as "Home" in your phone and anyone who wants to return your phone will manage to find it.

Thanks. I've added my boyfriend's number to the photo (of my dog) I have as wallpaper. And added 'HOME' to his contact details. That should guarantee I never lose it again!

And I have my 2 main contacts listed as ICE in case the emergency services look for that.

postingalwaysposting

I was on holiday in the south I think and parked by the seaside. Upon returning back to the car on the hatchback next to us was a very full wallet, just left on the roof. I couldn't find the people so I wrote a note and stuck it under his window wiper and took the wallet into tourist information about 20 steps from the car. They took our details but thought nothing more of it... A week after being home we recived a lovely card and a £10 note

If I find anything I always hand it in or try and find it's owners. I hope one day someone may do the same for me.

pinmoney

Hmm - i have mixed feelings. A few years ago (before mobile phone, on-line banking etc) on our return from holiday i had to run to the bank the next lunchtime to pay lots of bills and draw out the weeks spending cash. Also that day i had to leave work early for an appointment. I rode a motorbike to work at the time and i was in such a hurry that i forgot to secure my bag onto the back rack properly and when i got home it had dropped off. My place of work at that time was not in the nicest part of town (lets put it this way i would not want to wander the streets if i did not know exactly where i was going by daylight and definitely not at night on my own) so i was resigned to losing cash, bank card,cheque book and bills with our home address - basically our life!!! Of course i reported the loss immediatly to the bank and the police and crossed my fingers hoping for the best (i also let my neighbours know in case any strangers came calling during the day when the house was empty). The following weekend as we lay in bed thinking about getting up a car with a loud exhaust drove slowly up and down the street. when we got up and looked out of the window there was my bag on the front grass! they had treated themselves to my cash and tried to use the bank card because it was out of place but otherwise everything else was in tact. I cannot believe how lucky i was and i put it down to alerting bank and police as soon as i realised the loss and the fact that identity theft at that time was virtually unheard of - you would have been laughed out of the cop shop if you had talked so daft!

It was a real kick in the pants though and such a horrid feeling when i realise how careless i was and what could have happed - i am now SOOO careful about my purse and how i use my cards and dispose of documents with any personal details.

Would i hand in a wallet containing cash and cards? Yes i would because i know what it feels like and the stress and aggravation that it can cause!!!!

Tinks74

I used to work in a club that occasionially had stolen cars dumped nearby, unfortunately they were often burnt out. On one occasion the car had not yet been set alight (it was a nice area /), from experience I knew if we waited for the Police to deal with it they would be dealing with a wreck and not a car that could be repaired (broken window, steering clumn and replacement radio). I could see in the car that the glovebox was open and there was an envelope with an address on it, I took the letter traced the address and telephoned them, after explaining myself to a slightly distressed lady and her husband, it turned out they had been burgled and the car had been taken. They came to pick it up and bought me a big box of chocolates as a thank you.

Stryder

What a fail for Martin

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18. I leave my wallet and keys on the kitchen table every night. My wife nicks the change every morning. "(Mine too – ML!)""


If you leave your wallet and keys on a table, on view, some insurance companies will not compensate you if you have it stolen and then used to drive your car away. Keys should be kept secure and out of view.


Not only is Martin paying for insurance he is invalidating, but inviting burglers to take things which may not get replaced...


Unless he is on a New for Old insurance scheme and is planning to tempt someone into stealing them :eek: I am certain this is not the case, !!!! up before conspiracy. Still, maybe Martin will want to change his policy and protect his home from all the burgler who know where to get his car keys.

2sides2everystory

If you leave your wallet and keys on a table, on view, some insurance companies will not compensate you if you have it stolen and then used to drive your car away. Keys should be kept secure and out of view.


Not only is Martin paying for insurance he is invalidating, but inviting burglers to take things which may not get replaced...

Good gawd ... which insurance companies do you know Stryder who think like this?

An Englishman's home is his castle - he can leave whatever he damned well likes on his own table

Please do tell which insurers have now extended their perception of leaving valuables on view in an unattended parked car in the street as an irresponsible act, to the concept of leaving valuables on view for anyone pressing their snotty criminal nose against the back garden windows of the house?

Come on old son, we need to know so we can avoid these so-called "insurers" like the plague.

aeromint

Hi,

I am glad I have a chance to share this with you.

I had just made a large cash withdrawal, and it was not until I got home that I realised that I didn't have my purse. I live in a small market town and hoped it would be returned. I was contacted by my local library, informing me that my purse had been handed in the local police station. I collected my purse and found that everything was there - credit cards; money etc. The person who found my purse left me his contact details, so I sent him a thank you card enclosing money.
I considered myself extremely lucky.

Thank you again, to that person, and to all the others, who have returned missing personal property.

Olokia

I dropped £20 and went back to all the places I'd been to in the hope I could find it. I had dropped it in Subway and someone decided to keep it by the till in case I returned that day.

He was surprised I did turn up and thanks to him, I got my £20 back. The other staff in Subway had said that no one will come for it and just to keep it.