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Author Topic: Strange Lost and Found Items Chris Mosel Film Handler Posts: 74 From: New Braunfels, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-06-2008 08:48 PM                     Two weeks ago we found a (fake)cell phone that is actually a stun-gun. This has got to be among the oddest items found in my 17 years. No one has called or come by asking for it yet. Has anyone else found anything this far out of the norm?  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-06-2008 09:35 PM                     Off duty cop lost his gun here on Sunday night about 7 years ago during the 7.15 show. He discovered it was missing around 10.45 and came back to look for it at closing---11.30 or so. The cop and 3 theatre employees looked for it for 30 minutes before it was found, far from where he had been sitting.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2008 09:48 PM                        I've come across a 45mm automatic that a guy found uncomfortable in his belt so he put it on a baseboard heater behind a curtain; a number of bindles or other containers of cocaine (ah, the 80's!), underware, a bra, all forms of lost bills (highest was $65), wallets with up to $400 and credit cards, cell phones by the scad, etc. Luci says the strangest is over the years how many glasses (reading and prescription) she's found that have not been claimed that she's taken to the Free Box. (Telluride has this place where you can drop off things you don't want for others to glean.... it's the Free Box.)  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-06-2008 10:10 PM                     Underwear, mens and women is found often and frequently together(no surprize). Most money in a found wallet, $1200. What is truly amazing is the stuff that they don't come back for.  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 01-06-2008 10:26 PM                        A wallet with $9,000 and no id. Handed it to the police station where it was claimed a week later. Many sets of keys, including car keys ... do they walk home and forget that they once had a car?  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-07-2008 02:35 AM                     Yep $8000.00 in a wallet. It belonged to a guy that was working for my father.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-07-2008 06:19 AM                        Back in 1996 I found an FBI I.D. wallet. I thought it was fake for about a day and a few of us went around acting like we were Mulder from the X-Files. Then the FBI agent who lost it showed up and we realized that it was real!  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-07-2008 06:36 AM                     At a theater I worked at 25 years ago, some assistant to the India ambassador left $12,000 in a briefcase after watching “Gandhi”. He claimed it the next day, but in the meantime the staff was going a little crazy deciding what to do with it!  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 01-07-2008 09:58 AM                     Just the other evening we found a purse with quite a bit of cash inside. There was an ID but we couldn't cross reference it to a local phone number. The theater manager realized the address was not far away and he stopped there on his way home to return the purse. On Sunday the woman baked a big chocolate cake and brought it in for all the theater staff.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-07-2008 11:38 AM                     I remember one of my old managers finding a sex bag (including some butt plugs).  |  IP: Logged Christopher Crouch Expert Film Handler Posts: 128 From: Holywood, ca, usa Registered: May 2006 posted 01-07-2008 11:38 AM                  A prosthetic arm. The guy came back for it the same night, but how in the world does one forget their arm? I've also found dentures several times. Again, how do you forget your teeth? And, why would you remove your teeth in a theatre to begin with?  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-07-2008 11:49 AM                     We had a box to keep eveything found in the cinema for three months, cheque books,credit cards, keys, hearing aid,and the all time favourite of ours was the left stilleto shoe. Worked at the place for nigh on 20 years, and we never got rid of it,just in case.  |  IP: Logged Alastair Comrie Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: May 2007 posted 01-07-2008 03:10 PM                     At my other job (non theater) I found an entire dead lobster in the parking lot. A little strange considering it is a theme park in the middle of the city..  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-07-2008 03:25 PM                     One of my employees found a dead chicken in the parking lot. Still had feathers and a beak. Likewise, we too get a lot of sunglasses and prescription glasses. When a customer returns and tells me they lost their sunglasses a week or so ago, they seem quite astounded when I bring down the large box we keep the sunglasses in...  |  IP: Logged Mike Sellars Film Handler Posts: 34 From: Robertsdale, AL., USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 01-07-2008 03:45 PM                     Better false teeth question is... why would one take out their uppers and only leave those? That's the weirdest thing I ever found!  |  IP: Logged

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