do you evr find handbags when out?

[fish]

so do you folks find peoples handbags,purses or wallets when out? We keep finding them when we are out and about,usually rural areas and have usually been stolen and dumped.

last December we found a handbags contents in a stream near salisbury a week old,it had been stolen in the city ,using a bit of detective work we traced the surprised owner on facebook.
last month we were foraging up on whitesheet hill and found another bag with all its contents including drivers id,mobile phone,make up i-pod etc we traced the owner by using facebook,the bag had been stolen some 9 years previous and had sat in the hedgerow since.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8118/8660742508_0b72f1705d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9228131@N07/8660742508/)
found bag March (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9228131@N07/8660742508/) by fishfish_01 (http://www.flickr.com/people/9228131@N07/), on Flickr


Today we found another back on a rural roadside whilst walking the dogs,we will be doing some detective work as a school project,we think from the membership cards in the purse that it has been in the hedgerow for about 3 - 4 years.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8119/8659625297_718874932b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9228131@N07/8659625297/)
found hand bag (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9228131@N07/8659625297/) by fishfish_01 (http://www.flickr.com/people/9228131@N07/), on Flickr

not one reward from the tight buggers though! lol

thanks for looking.

[butchthedog]

It's good of you to go to all that trouble and rude of the bag owners not to acknowledge your honesty in a small financial way. You get a thumb's up from me though for being a decent and honourable person. T^

[paulthefish2009]

Strangely enough it's womens underwear I seem to find?? And no I haven't got any photos:p

[Silverback]

err.....I have found allsorts of stuff or to be more precise the dog has...it is what he's trained to do after all

[Stamp]

I found a create of vodka in a small wood in town, the local kids must of stashed it there. Not being much of a drinker i took it home and poored it away, the next day I took it back refilled with water. Would of liked to see the kids faces when they started drinking it... After the next weeked I found all the bottles smashed around the wood, I felt a little guilty so I cleaned up their mess.

[OakAshandThorn]

Never run into anyone's purse, but I find tons of plastic water bottles, old pop cans, and little plastic bags filled with dog ****.

[Ehecatl]

I once found a wallet in Boulonge - does that count?

[Silverback]

i know someone whose dog found and returned with a rubber 'marital aid' bouncing about in its mouth !

[David_JAFO]

hello,
Paul was it thrown at you from your loyal fan club :oops:
Regards
David


Strangely enough it's womens underwear I seem to find??
And no I haven't got any photos:p

[Wardy]

Never run into anyone's purse, but I find tons of plastic water bottles, old pop cans, and little plastic bags filled with dog ****.

Same here seems the local woods is full of cans bottles and bags of $*^#.

[Blade7]

Same here! Always try to take with me as much as I can when I'm leaving the woods, but usually it's too much..

[OakAshandThorn]

Same here seems the local woods is full of cans bottles and bags of $*^#.
Do they sometimes use green bags? The fools here think that they can fill the green bags and then carelessly throw them off the side of the trail into the bushes so "no one will find it". If I saw someone do it, I'd be tempted to make them pick it up and eat it. :mad:

[Sar-ian]

I seem to find door keys, must have magnets inside my boots (LOL), on first name terms now with our local CSO (plastic-police-person)....

[saxonaxe]

For many years, whenever I've had the chance and whatever season, I've walked the South Downs Way from Winchester to where I live in Sussex. About 6 years ago I was walking Eastwards towards home and stopped to camp in an isolated place high on the Downs.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/026-1.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/026-1.jpg.html) http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/028.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/028.jpg.html)

Tent up, finished eating and just enjoying watching the last of the daylight fade. Northwards down on the low Weald the lights of the farms were coming on and Southwards the scattered lights of shipping out in the English Channel. I was just about to zip the tent up when I saw a Roe Deer standing close to a Thorn tree about 25 metres away! I'm fairly familiar with Roe so I was surprised to see it so close, and I'd been there some time so my scent must have been all around. I tried to get the camera out but the deer slowly walked away.
Why was it standing by the tree? Wrong season for a Fawn to be laid up there. I had to look, so getting a torch as it was now quite dark I went to the Thorn tree.
I have to say what showed in the light of the torch at first startled me but I went back to the tent and slept well that night.

I took this photo from the tent the next morning
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/030.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/030.jpg.html) http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/lacorunacopy012.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/lacorunacopy012.jpg.html)

I went to the Thorn tree and took these photos..
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/031.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/031.jpg.html) http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk136/highandry_photos/ccad6f2b-8da7-4f82-aefc-24732a519eb5_zps9cee0f27.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/highandry_photos/media/ccad6f2b-8da7-4f82-aefc-24732a519eb5_zps9cee0f27.jpg.html)

She was heavy 2 kilo plus at a guess, made of a fine stoney material and probably a garden ornament. Why was she there? Someone had carried her all the way up onto the high Down deliberately. She wasn't dumped..too far from road or vehicle access. Perhaps she marked the grave of a loved pet's resting place? Maybe she was a memorial to a lost child?

A garden ornament maybe but some of you know the Thorn is a sacred tree and to me at least she was like a spirit of the Downland. Perhaps the Roe thought so too?
I broke camp and walked away, leaving her undisturbed, sleeping under the sacred Thorn in the warm Sussex sunshine.

[Silverback]

wonderful story Saxonaxe...

[OakAshandThorn]

T^ Very touching, indeed.

[fish]

cool!

[freedom]

Besides the usual rubbish left behind by people , I have found empty ATM machine.

[Sar-ian]

I have found empty ATM machine.

Liverpool, ummmmm no surprise there then (LOL)