Originally Posted By 4Disnee I think that if you see something that is not yours and its on a ride, the ground or anywhere and you know that its not yours darn it do not keep it! Hello its not yours. Turn it into someone at lost and found or at DL a CM. We are teaching our son that who is 10. If a ball is in our front yard and we know that it is not ours we can not keep it. We live at a bottom of a hill so hello it must belong to the boy who lives at the top of the hill. So we had our son walk up the hill and put the ball back into the boys yard. Yeah I know its only a ball but just the same it did not belong to us so we cant keep it. I am thank full for honest people I had lost a bag at DL that had some nice jewelry in it and I did not know until I got home and went to wrap it for a gift. I called Lost & Found and they had it. I was so happy. I would have lost two gifts and $70.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy My daughter who buys her children very nice clothes - some name brand - some too spendy for me. Anyway my grandson about 6-7 and his nice shirt, little logo and all. It was hot so we took it off or it dropped off the stroller. We went to lost and found for a few days, left our address with Disney. I couldn't believe someone keep it. My goodness. Is it that serious to take people clothes....used at that. It surprised me. Back to this thread....I didn't know she took the phone home, got 3 text messages, had your family picture on it. YES - that qualifies as THEFT.
Originally Posted By mickeynewe >>>I am thank full for honest people I had lost a bag at DL that had some nice jewelry in it and I did not know until I got home and went to wrap it for a gift. I called Lost & Found and they had it. I was so happy. I would have lost two gifts and $70.<<< My daughter was very happy too...since one of the presents was for her! An adorable pink bracelet with a jeweled mickey hand! LOL..she definitely loves her Auntie/Godmother! On the serious side, I agree wholeheartedly with 4Disnee! We are a religious family, happy to proclaim it, AND we teach our daughter very strict morals. If something doesn't belong to you..return it. If you go to a store and you aren't charged for something...take it back and pay for it. Only by leading by example for our children can we properly teach them. In the end, I'm glad you were able to get your phone back. Also, in my mind, I would consider what happened theft and I am happy you were able to recover your phone. BTW...the same thing happened to my husband in a Target store where we live. His cell phone fell out of his pocket (or he was pick-pocketed, who knows) and each time my husband called his cell the guy that answered just laughed at him. It made my husband really mad especially since it was a work phone. He never got it back and the company had to cancel the number and supply my hubby with a new phone. Very aggravating to be in that position so we understand how you feel.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 ^^As stated in post11, my husband has been through this too. And for a worthless phone at that. This is a true story. I will make it as short as possible. When I was living in Hawaii, a boy's soccer coach accidentally left a case with $10,000 of the teams money by his rubbish can. When this hit the news someone called to say they had seen a trash collector going through something and it looked suspicious. When the police caught up with the men they had spent about $3000 of it already. One had bought a boat. Then, the disc jockeys who had followed the story did a call in poll. Neither they nor I could believe that 60% of ADULTS who called in believed in "finders keepers losers weepers" and only 40% felt it was theft. Your cell phone was stolen! I am happy she thought better of it when she realized she could get caught.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I gotta remember not to take my son to "Our Lady of the Sticky Fingers". She knew it wasn't hers, she took it home and only turned it in when she discovered she'd get caught... She STOLE the phone. And it was stolen the moment she realized it wasn't hers and didn't return it (at the time of the first call at the very least).
Originally Posted By MadMadameMim My little sister (10) went with her friend and her friends mom once. She left her fanny pack with the mother while she went on a ride. Inside the Fanny pack was a Nintendo SP, two of those light up spinny things that they sell at night, An Autograph book (that was almost completed!), Money and a pen. The mom went into a store and accidently left her fanny back at the table- right next to the table was another mother with a stroller full of bags. When her friends mom returned- it was gone but the other mother was still there. When asked if she saw the fanny pack- the lady Denied it. and said "Aww. that's sad. Poor kid."...Then immediately left. The nerve. At least you got your cell phone back. I just don't understand how people can find more pleasure in keeping these things than returning them at the lost and found. Just sad.
Originally Posted By Ursula Having worked a few years at Knotts' lost and found, I've learned a few lessons. I put my business card in the case of any expensive camera I have, also in eye glass cases. We would get so much stuff daily in L&F, and we had no idea how to find the owners. We did have lost reports to match up daily, and sometimes the descriptions were close but not enough, so we'd call the lost report's owner for further descrption. (Grey Rx glasses on the report when the glasses found were the same shape, but in dark blue, etc.) I've had very upset women pleading for me to help them find their whatever they lost. I can say that we tried really, really hard, even calling leads of rides to have them take a look all over. I think what drove me the most nuts was when people would lose very expensive cameras and NOT come in to fill out a lost report. We had some very nice things come in unclaimed. Guess what happened to the stuff? We sold them to employees once a year and the profits went to children's charity. This was before cell phones were out, but we did get our fair share of beepers (remember those)? We'd call the beeper number, in hopes that it was a business greeting that we could then use 411 to find more info on. We got lucky a few times. Still, I couldn't imagine what one would do with a stolen phone??? Do you give out the number to friends? How do you know the number? Long distance is practically free now, so what's the point in using it to call out of town friends? It would be good until the phone company shut it down, so why cause another human grief?
Originally Posted By RAM1984 Those are good tips Ursula. I will try to impliment some in order to retrieve articles if I lose them.
Originally Posted By ploeb909 Well the deal on "stolen" phones is that, you can remove the "Sim Card", replace it with a $30.00 purchase- sighn a new contract, and Ta-Da!!! You very own $200. phone. Thats whats so nerve racking about this stuff. Also upon removeing the Sim it erases all recently called numbers. I actually got a phone call from the woman,today, I had given her my daughters cell #, and she told me her niece had made a few phone calls and wanted to repay me. Although it was a jesture(not sure how I feel about that yet) it still is crazy! I am glad that I got the phone back-its a company phone( and those that know me on this thread, know I am the company)I still would need to replace it and pay whatever! The lesson however, is that I need the insurance! I have now contacted my cell company and added it for $4.99 a month! Thanks everyone that comented, its good to hear people on this thread know right from wrong! I have always felt the finders keepers idea was wrong and would never allow my children to keep items they found! And by the way...when I was filling out the paper work for my phone at lost and found there was a girl that lost what sounded like an expensive bracelet. I only mention it because someone said they lost one.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy plobe909 ~ oh ~ I couldn't understand for the heck why someone wanted to steal a phone unless they poor broke. I am very untechnology up to date. At least the sim card thing explains, BUT wrong as heck to do. Well when the pastor have a refresher course on Thou Shall Not Steal - she will probably slide under the pew. :O)
Originally Posted By drawbridge ploeb, I am so sorry that happened to you and glad it worked out in the end. How strange that they have called you again. I find the whole thing pretty creepy. I totally agree that keeping something you find is stealing. You are supposed to turn it over to the proper authorities, no matter where you are. My son bought one of those $6 character pens and left it on a table at the Plaza Inn. The family that was sitting there when we returned to get it had it laying there and when they saw us coming they slid it over under a plate. My heart was racing now, over a silly pen, but just the confrontation of it, I said - that is my sons pen I think. The mom said it was not and would not give it up. Her child that was sitting there looked upset over this. Nice parenting! We just left it at that. A harsh lesson for my son as I felt I should not replace it for him as he was careless about loosing it.
Originally Posted By ploeb909 Wow!! Ok, whats up with parenting skills?? Poor kid! Thats a bummer that your child lost their pen, while its "just" a pen to you and me, he feels like I felt about me phone! And that poor baby sitting there while his mother flat out lied!! That child will ALWAYS remember "the time Mommy stole a pen, at DisneyLand". Ugh...Karma will get her though.
Originally Posted By GreenMother ^^ True, Ploeb, but most of those types that get theirs back thru karma I have found have no idea that's what is happening and just think "O poor me, I always have bad luck"! And I totally agree with the parenting skills - how do you face your children and try to help them learn right from wrong? And how can one possibly exprect their kids not to pull the same stuff on them in the end?
Originally Posted By tiggertoo Sorry you had to deal with that ploeb909. I had to deal with missing cell phone on Autopia on a daily basis. It was extremely sad how people would try to claim phones that weren't theirs. I always managed to trap these scoundrels. I would pull out my cell phone (yes, on-stage) and ask, “Okay, if this is your phone, what is your number?†If they actually gave me a number and the phone rang, I gave it to them. Usually the people turned green and walked away. Anyhow, it’s sad how little integrity some people have.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 I find cell phones on a fairly regular basis in the locker room at the gym. It would never even occur to me to try to keep it. My husband found one laying in the street by our house. We fiddled with the menu and finally called a number in his phonebook. It was one of his friends and they called him and he called us. He was so grateful. That is a great way to keep 'em honest Tiggertoo.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy tiggertoo ~ That is amazing. Oh I would laugh - they must have been so embarassed. That is a good one. LOL
Originally Posted By stagemomx3 Hey it took me several months to learn what my cell phone number was, I can see people not knowing their own cell phone number.
Originally Posted By grumpster stagemom - I'm even worse, don't know my number with the exception of the area code and prefix. I keep my number in my phone contacts directory - just in case anyone asks.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy stagemomx3 ~ you better write it down. LOL I think if it was those people real phone ~ they wouldn't have turned green and walked away.
