BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 03:19 AM

Bonnie has a point.

The bride to be should be told. She has a right to know the kind of guy she is marrying. This gets down to basic honesty and integrity.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 04:23 AM

She has a right to know the kind of guy she is marrying

I suspect she's probably cut from the same cloth. They'll go far together.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 09:17 AM

Hmmm,I can't help thinking "One Ring to bind the pair"...

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 11:51 AM

I suspect that taking this farther than the discussion going on in the office is too far. He has to live with himself, he hasn't murdered someone, the stone is apparently faux, life will go on. Enough time has been spent mulling this lapse in judgement.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:30 PM

I'm not exactly sure of the sense of trying to return money in small denominations or any singular amount of money unless it was part of the contents of another package. Unless that owner is plainly obvious.
How do you actually determine the rightful owner of something that almost everyone would have on them from day to day? Ask them for the serial number?
I can see it for a large amount that the authorities could then ask the person exactly how much they lost but after working at the mall I know people that will come to lost and found every few days and ask if a ten, twenty, etc. was found.
I also find the instance of the authorities charging the finding party who honestly turned something in a percentage to claim it after the owner failed to do so pretty crappy!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Slag
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 05:52 PM

If the amount of money is nondescript you don't announce the amount or the location, just that money was found. The police usually handle this aspect of the search. If it is a common bill, like a twenty (then) or maybe a hundred (now) you wait for someone to come seeking. If no one seeks it out then it may be an amount they didn't mind losing or perhaps the don't have the imagination to consider that the police may have it. At any rate you have taken reasonable steps to locate the owner. No more can be asked of you than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 04 Jun 08 - 11:41 PM

Sins -- I am shocked about the office's reaction -- what a bummer -- I still believe heart and soul in karma - what goes around, comes around.....

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: GUEST,caitlín
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 08:57 AM

Ever think of showing him this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 11:11 AM

And have him discover Mudcat? That would be casting pearls before swine. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: GUEST,caitlín
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 01:15 PM

Hmmmm yeah, I see your point. Pearls. Worth a bit. He might keep them.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 07:41 PM

While I don't approve of automatically keeping something so valuable, I wouldn't necessarily recommend handing it over to the police.

I once found some tools on my property that didn't belong to me. I remember there was an electric hedge trimmer, a boom box, a pair of gloves, and I don't remember what else. They were spattered with flecks of paint, which made me think they probably belonged to a house painter or handyman. I suspected they had been stolen off a truck or off a work site and then abandoned by the thief who either didn't want them or got scared while trying to carry them away. I figured, even if the stuff wasn't very valuable, it might be useful as evidence.

I wanted to do the right thing, so I called police. When they came to pick up the stuff, I could tell by the careless way they handled it that they weren't planning to dust it for fingerprints. (I had been careful not to touch it myself.)

I asked what would happen if nobody claimed it. They said the stuff would be auctioned off and the money would go to the police retirement fund!

They didn't even give me a receipt!

I was rather disgusted. I could have used that hedge trimmer!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 07:46 PM

Wait a minute. There's another possibility that never occurred to me till now. Maybe the stuff was worthless junk that the owner wanted to get rid of! I never turned on the boom box, or plugged in the hedge trimmer, so I'll never know!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: meself
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:09 PM

Once I found an accordian on my property ...

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 12:01 PM

Well, my house guests have outdone themselves this time. While straightening up the post-holiday mess, I found a laptop in a back pack (along with a rough amethyst crystal and a stale cinnamon bun). How could anyone be without a laptop for over a week and not notice?

Anyway - who belongs to this thing?

I still haven't mailed out the leavings from the Gordon Bok concert.
SIGH

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 12:26 PM

dibs on the cinnamon bun!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 01:00 PM

Too late - I tossed it. Wonder what Apple laptops are going for on ebay?

How long do I have to wait before it's mine?

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 01:08 PM

I think the laptop's mine. You can keep the crystal.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 02:07 PM

I think you're full of crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: meself
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 02:28 PM

Jeesh - how many "houseguests" did you have? How big is your house, anyway? What was going on? And most importantly - why wasn't I invited?

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 02:38 PM

They have been coming and going like a bad case of fleas for two months now. The last left on Wednesday. But no one is missing a laptop. Go figure.

Consider yourself invited, meself. Clean towels are in a bin at the bottom of the stairs.
Two house rules:

1. The cats can do anything.
READ THIS CAREFULLY. I really don't care if Alice peed on your suitcase. You were warned.

2. I do not snore.

Maybe this laptop is my SecretSanta gift??? But why a Mac?

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 02:43 PM

Or to quote Chico Marx: "Why a duck? Why a no chicken?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 03:28 PM

So Mary says, 'I think you're full of crap.'

I'm WOUNDED to the very soul!!!

Seriously, where did you find it and when. It might not have been that recent. I'd try to guess who might be Mac geek and like amethyst and backpacks, but I don't know. ClaireBear, Lisa Null, Cindy/Grey, Peter/Joanne. If a persons moving around a lot, they might not notice the computer's gone or they might not know where they lost it or they might think it had been stolen elsewere.

Or maybe Alice peed on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 03:40 PM

I do clean occasionally, Jeri. All of the furniture was moved for the Gordon Bok concert and later returned to its proper place. So the laptop arrived during the ice storm at the earliest.
HARUMPH!
Everyone has been heard from except Becca. Hopefully it is hers. Otherwise, I am rally confused - but that's par for the course.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 04:36 PM

You mean Micca DIDN'T leave anything this time?! Blimey, that's a first!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 04:43 PM

You're joking, right? He left a fleece coat at my house and some other stuff at Jacqui's (formerly, Kendall's house lol). I haven't been upstairs yet.
But he also left a bottle of Taittinger's, some incredible single malts and a warm glow.

Wonder if he took his shoes???????

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 05:05 PM

Mary, if you turn the computer on, you may be able to access stuff like an e-mail account or other personal things. It's like looking in a wallet to find out whose it is. Just leave their porn alone.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:01 PM

The mystery may be solved and when I get my hands on the addle-headed guest who picked up someone else's luggage at the bus terminal...

I emptied the case and found some receipts. A bit of Googling turned up the owner who (unbelievable) is a folkie fiddler.

I can only pray he doesn't have me arrested for stealing the damn thing.



You guys are a lot of work!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:25 PM

Update - it was stolen from a local restaurant by that ne'er do well....Tami!

Innocent eyes - HAH!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jeri
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:55 PM

So it was stolen from a bus station then stolen from a restaurant by Tami? Did she steal it from the thief or did somebody just forget it? Need the whole sordid story, before lawyers get involved.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Alice
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 09:51 PM

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One of the testimonials on Mozy.com is from a man who had his laptop stolen.

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Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: meself
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 11:09 PM

"READ THIS CAREFULLY. I really don't care if Alice peed on your suitcase. You were warned."

Alice is a cat - right?

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 11:20 PM

No, Alice is Alice (Flynn) from Montana........As the result of a monstrous urinary tract infection, Alice lost any ability to control her whizz and now accidentally wets down any object lying about. On a visit to the White House, she turned the Blue Room yellow. She cannot be trusted for more than a brief moment before she soaks down your favorite slippers which you were wearing at the time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: ranger1
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 11:50 PM

I go out of state to visit the relatives and peek in on Mudcat and what do I find? False accusations smearing my good name! As if I would stoop to stealing a laptop, especially an apple product at that! Hmph! See if I ever give you a nice Christmas present ever again!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 09 - 11:50 PM

Oh, Spaw, I think Alice in MT is pickier about where she actually pees and I don't think she has a thing for suitcases at all!*bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 07:37 AM

I wasn't going to comment on the "finder's" character - most of you have done so already. However - I am very superstitious about rings. I would never try on someone else's ring, and I would never

let anyone else try my rings on.

This will only bring him wafeti bokt. What kind of piker would give the ring of another to his future missis, as an engagement ring ? It defies understanding, for me.

In England & Wales (and for all I know, the other two Jurisdictions of the UK) this is stealing by finding, a section 1 Theft Act 1968 offence.

Were the artefact to be handed over to the bogies - and a receipt obtained - then, if the ring were not claimed within a given period of time, ownership would vest in the finder.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 08:28 AM

The young man kept thanking me for returning his computer. I feel lucky he didn't call the cops on me.

Tami - you owe me big time. AND your Micca privileges are revoked. Apparently the three of you need a keeper. The world is upside down - I am now the voice of reason. SIGH!

I could accept a luggage mix up at the bus terminal but picking up the kid's laptop at the Crooked Mile - something is very wrong there. Although I can see the three of you all babbling at once. You over poison ivy, Micca over wine. And Jacqui over the lack of proper tea. Just imagine if he had caught you on the way out the door with the laptop...

Bryn, I feel the same way about jewelry. Most of mine was stolen. If it were ever returned I wouldn't want it. Jewelry, like instruments, take on a part of the user. Plus I put a curse on all of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 05:03 PM

Sigh. I am not responsible for limeys who pick up other peoples' luggage in cafes, be they laptops or suitcases. And how the hell would I have noticed one more item amongst all the bags Micca had? He bought out the wine shop, fer cryin' out loud!

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 05:37 PM

I just got a phone message from Mary about the laptop. Apparently the phone is having some sort of WTF-itis. I'm glad there was a happy ending and the guy got his laptop back.

Tami, I have an idea. Will PM.

Subject: RE: BS: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers??
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 09 - 07:59 PM

And I got a hug from a big handsome 20 something. He was very grateful.

You are all on double secret probation!