This is a bit of a long shot, but I got a taxi this evening from the Ferry Piers and on the back seat was a small leather purse of a (for me) unusual design. In the purse was a sum of Euros and various receipts from two European cities. Unfortunately there is nothing that identifies the owner.
If you think this was yours please PM me telling me which Euro cities and one or two of the items on the receipts and I will happily arrange to get the cash and the receipts (which could be equally valuable if want to claim some expenses) to you.
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If it was a substantial sum of money I would have taken it to the police, but knowing the HKP it would take hours to file a report and it isn't worth that for the equivalent of a couple of hundred HK$. If no-one contacts me then it will go to charity - probably Unicef on an upcoming CX flight.
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please kindly call the police, i know its common sense and you have prob. done that already. Last time I left a briefcase in the Taxi, I called the cops and it was waiting for me in the Wanchai police station.
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Sorry, but I'm not going to spend a couple of hours of my time going and filling in paperwork for the sake of HK$250 or so... It's only cash and a couple of receipts - obviously if it was documents or anything of any significant value I'd have gone to a police station.
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Just give the stuff to the police. You've done a good deed period. It's now the police's turn to do their good deed and track the owner. Whether the police will do their job is another question but it's going to be on their conscience not yours.
Understandably, you would want to see how the story ends but practically it's out of your powers....
also, it may be a small amount and it may be tempting to just keep the money yourself but remember what goes around comes around.....
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wizbang, I think that last sentence was superfluous. FOTH made it very clear that he has no intention of keeping the money.
FOTH, reading some of the above responses I bet you wish you hadn't bothered trying to help someone via this forum now!
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Hand it over to the police and let it be their problem. The person who left it in the taxi would have gone to the police and lodged a report (if he was interested in getting it back).
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true thames he wasnt thinking of keeping it for himself but there are suggestions that he not bother to turn it in and just keep it for himself.
just hand it over to the police. if the police don't want to have anything to do with it - give it to a charity.
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Not until tomorrow morning actually - then I hope to have the pleasure of trying out CX's brand new business class (only as far as Manila though). Not sure I'll have the nerve to ask for wine at 9am though... but if I get op-upped to First I might just have to check how the Krug tastes in the new suites!
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Devon
19 yrs ago
Well the owner of the purse should've been more careful. I lost a lovely piece of jewellery in a taxi once, but bad luck for me. FOTH is only talking about a couple of hundred, not thousands!
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FOTH of the house is probably already in Manila now. What a pity he didn't bother to just go straight to the police and hand in the purse to them. He had all the time to post this thread and respond to it though...
Devon, I'm sure everyone has lost a belonging at some point. Didn't you wish that the person who might have found your jewellery had taken it to the police or did you not even bother to go to the police and see if someone had found and returned it?
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The sad thing is, that when u leave something in a cab and call the cab lost and found, they normally only deal with around 30% of HK taxis. I lost my wallet in a taxi at the star ferry once, and got given a different number, where they can do a call out to most taxis...but u have to pay them about 800 bucks (cant remember exactly), which can be a bit of a problem when u've JUST LOST YOUR WALLET!
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