Three cheers for anonymous cabbie!

[Beebo]

I like a good news story.
I left my laptop on the train twice, back in the days when i used to commute by train. Both times it was returned safe a well.
On my bike, my pannier fell off once, but it made such a noise that I knew straight away.

 

[HLaB]

I used to commute around 17.5miles from Edinburgh to Dunfermline and one sunny night about half way I clipped a fence but thought nothing of it. Got home to find my stem bag with keys and mobile missing and the house unusually empty; it must hace been thrown off when I clipped the fence. The reason the house was empty though my parents had went to retrieve the bag and contents found by another kind cyclist who had used the phone to ring my 'home' number and let them know he had found it.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A friend of mine (Government IT worker) was taking a colleague's personal laptop home to do some repairs on it. He forgot all about it, leaving it on the bus.

He was having a beer at home when the news reported that a suspect package had been found on a bus in Edinburgh's Princes Street. His wife says he nearly choked when he realised it was his mate's laptop.. and they'd blown it up in a controlled explosion.


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[jefmcg]

Lock this thread : @glasgowcyclist wins :-)

 

[vickster]

An ex colleague of mine misplaced her laptop rucksack on a train from Switzerland to Italy or vice versa. She assumed it had been stolen while she popped to the loo or similar. Got a call from Swiss rail, someone else had picked it up by mistake (or realised that a password protected company laptop and some dirty laundry wasn't worth nicking and handed it in, or left it somewhere else on the train to be found (can't remember).

I collected it from Basel lost property a week later at a cost of CHF 20 and brought it home. Lots of hand luggage on the plane that day...of course I packed it myself officer and it never left my sight!

 

[Gixxerman]

What a refreshing change to hear a positive result from this type of incident instead of the all-to-often negative results.
My faith in the human race just went up a few percent.
About 20 years ago, me and my (then) wife (now ex) were in the IOM for the TT races.
I lost my wallet with all my cards and £140 in cash in it.
We had a quick hunt to the areas where we had been and did not find it.
I reported it lost to the police in Douglas and stopped all the cards, and gave little hope of seeing it again.
A couple of weeks later back home, I received a call from the local plod asking if I had lost a wallet in the IOM recently.
I was asked to give a description of said wallet and its contents, and was delighted to hear that all the cards and even the money was all present and correct.
Given how busy the TT is, it found this amazing.
Plod even got it posted over to my local nick free of charge.
Sometimes, just sometimes, things work as they should and you get a warm feeling.

 

[vickster]

I think most people actually are honest...just often no one posts good stuff on the interweb

 

[jefmcg]

Great story and top marks to the cabbie. I'd be tempted to send him a nice bottle of something as a thank you

Trying to track him down. 101 couldn't help me, so I will have to drop into the police station.

 

[alans]

I used to own a Trek folder ( 20" wheels iirc) with an ex-works rear rack fitted to which I used to attach a pair of these

http://www.ortlieb.co.uk/bike/rear-panniers/bike-packer-plus.html

Absolutely no probs..

 

[alans]

It is refreshing when you benefit from the honesty of others.Restores one's faith in human nature to a degree.

I once left a Filofax (remember those) on the train upon arrival at Euston.It contained my entire "business life" as it were plus plastic & other personal/confidential info.
A couple of weeks later it arrived unexpectedly,completely intact, at the office one morning via Royal Mail,sent from Virgin Rail lost property office after being handed in by the finder.

 

[jefmcg]

Slightly off topic, but it's a timely reminder of the importance of good backups. My partner had a Time Machine backup (external disk sitting on a table at home), a cloud backup, his documents all synced with spideroak and of course all his email on google's servers. If we had to replace the machine it would only be a couple of hours to create a new machine that was identical to the lost one.

 

[youngoldbloke]

I once left a camera in a bag in the café at Tate Britain. It was around the time when everywhere was on high terrorism alert. I realised when I'd got about 10 minutes walk away. On returning to the gallery I was surprised to find it completely empty except for one or two Tate employees, who escorted me back to the café, where a large number of security staff were standing at a safe distance from the suspicious object on the café seat - 'my camera', I explained sheepishly. The entire building had been evacuated ........ I was somewhat embarrassed

 

[RedRider]

I'd like to thank another anonymous cabbie who picked me up miles from anywhere* when I got a puncture halfway into my very first commute in London. I didn't have any tools or a clue but he stopped and helped me load the bike into the back before we set off.
He told me he was involved in running a cycling club in Walthamstow and gave me a number to ring in case I fancied joining. I bet you he's known to people on here. I never did ring mainly because I moved south of the river soon afterwards** but my first go back on a bike turned out not as bad as it might've thanks to him, and I rode in the next day, and the next...

* Stoke Newington