Lost Wallet in Portugal

Geoff51

Geoff51

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I lost my wallet with a few payments and drivers licence and a sim card probably around the Sao Domingos Mine. All cards frozen no problem. My wife uses Polar Steps app on our travels and it showed that we had travelled to a campsite in Marbella (someone had tried to use the (sim card). What are the chances of me receiving my stuff back? I say unlikely my wife has more faith in human beings😀. My address is on my drivers licence. TBC.
 
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Revolvor said:
Years ago, I was going home from work. After about 5 miles, through a town, up a steep hill, and along a reasonably fast winding road I noticed something flying through the air in my rear view mirror. I stopped and investigated, to find it was my wallet which I had put on the roof before I drove off.
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My first driving lesson , change a wheel, how to keep going if a fan belt breaks , basic oil water checks
And NEVER put your bag , purse , keys or anything on the roof,
At 17 all that stuff, I just wanted to drive.
Never did tell father he was right ;)
 
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outside chance that the finder was trying to contact you by using the sim card.
4 hours travel from the mines to Marbella, an easy day drive while they were trying to work out what to do - dropping it at the first police station they came to would have been first choice, but as the mines are a tourist attraction, the finder could well be a foreign holiday maker and Marbella was the first stop they came to after visiting the mines.
You never know, it might be winging it's way to your address right now, or sitting in the lost property room at Marbella police station.
How would the finder get in touch with you from the contents of the wallet?
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(optimism mode off)
 
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PaulW2 said:
The people you can trust don't try to use your sim cards or carry your wallet hundreds of miles away across borders.
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Unless, of course, they are planning on returning the wallet when they get back to the UK and tried the sim in case it might work to connect them to the owner? Unlikely I know, but not impossible.
 
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Many years ago I was biking home from my office and having just left the town when I (luckily) glanced to the verge and noticed something in the long grass. I turned around to find that it was a purse which I put in my rucksack. On getting home (20 miles away) I opened the purse, no identification but £250 cash. Next day I drove to my office and straight away walked up to police station which was in the same street (and manned in those days) and handed it in, the officer taking my name and office address. About two hours later I looked up from my desk to see a woman pacing backwards and forward with a HUGE bouquet of flowers. She came in to explain that she had gone to the bank and withdrew the money ready to take on holiday that weekend and had inadvertently put the purse on the roof of the car. She thanked me and insisted that I had the flowers. Now, I love to see flowers in a garden but there’s one thing NEVER to give me is flowers! She was insistent so I went home that evening with a massive bouquet of flowers. My wife likes flowers but the problem was that we were due to go away the next day too. Mother in law (about 20 miles away) ended up with them. It was a chance in a million that I spotted the purse in the long grass but all ended well-apart from the flowers. A cheap bottle of wine would have been appreciated more.

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TDub49 said:
Unless, of course, they are planning on returning the wallet when they get back to the UK and tried the sim in case it might work to connect them to the owner? Unlikely I know, but not impossible.
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The finder might not come from the UK
 
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My car was broken into when I went for a walk in the Haute Savoie years ago. Wallet was stolen.

Six months later the flying club at Annemasse reunited me with my wallet. It had my flying club membership card inside. No cash though. I have no idea who found the wallet, or where.
 
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My late father was in New York and found a wallet. Took it into a police station. He was recounting this to his American hosts at the hotel and their reaction was “You what?! Handed it to the police??!!. Are you nuts?”

He remained convinced he’d done the right thing. 👍
 
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dalspa said:
Many years ago I was biking home from my office and having just left the town when I (luckily) glanced to the verge and noticed something in the long grass. I turned around to find that it was a purse which I put in my rucksack. On getting home (20 miles away) I opened the purse, no identification but £250 cash. Next day I drove to my office and straight away walked up to police station which was in the same street (and manned in those days) and handed it in, the officer taking my name and office address. About two hours later I looked up from my desk to see a woman pacing backwards and forward with a HUGE bouquet of flowers. She came in to explain that she had gone to the bank and withdrew the money ready to take on holiday that weekend and had inadvertently put the purse on the roof of the car. She thanked me and insisted that I had the flowers. Now, I love to see flowers in a garden but there’s one thing NEVER to give me is flowers! She was insistent so I went home that evening with a massive bouquet of flowers. My wife likes flowers but the problem was that we were due to go away the next day too. Mother in law (about 20 miles away) ended up with them. It was a chance in a million that I spotted the purse in the long grass but all ended well-apart from the flowers. A cheap bottle of wine would have been appreciated more.
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How grumpy and ungrateful!

I love getting flowers, and whenever my widowed father and I visited each other, we’d always take flowers.
Many people don’t drink alcohol, so might be offput by wine?
 
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David M said:
How grumpy and ungrateful!

I love getting flowers, and whenever my widowed father and I visited each other, we’d always take flowers.
Many people don’t drink alcohol, so might be offput by wine?
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Me grumpy? I wasn’t in those days but open to debate now - it was nearly 40 years ago. I would have preferred it that she donated the money to charity. The point was that I didn’t want a reward, thanks was enough.

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Different countries, different times, different stories!

Cyprus, in the 80's. Background, little small crime, when someone was convicted of something, it was reported at length in the Local Papers, along with the Family name of the convicted, his village and the names of all relatives! Apparently the shame and dishonour was a matter of suicides. So minimum small crime.

I was working there at the time teaching Adventure Sports, and part of the safety regime we employed was the use of radios for communication. Somehow the day tended to end beside a bar on a beach and the warm Mediterranean.

On one evening we manage to leave £2000 worth of radio equipment outside the bar!

Major panic when loading up the next day, a quick detour to the bar, all the equipment lying there in a heap in the bar car park!

Japan, again in the 80's. A sporting event which included the use of bulky kit that needed speciality transport and handling. Usually you would have your own car or a rental, but as driving around rural Japan was not recommended for foreigners, other methods were implemented.

Through the media, locals were instructed as to how to handle the Gaijin delicate equipment, how to equip their vehicle to transport equipment and where to deliver it, local railway stations set aside locations, then during the night the railway companies ran special trains to collect the equipment, worth many £000's, and deliver it back to the competition HQ.

As you may imagine, we, the westerners, could not see how this would work! But we were lectured as to how everything would be secure and nothing would be touched or interfered with!

After a couple of days all seemed to work without fail.

But my mate still had doubts. So that afternoon we were at a railway station, we dumped our kit in the 'depot' as instructed, awaited the arrival of our bulky equipment, locals were in competition to retrieve the Gaijin's equipment, there was great honour in doing this.

So as instructed we left everything, even carriable kit, save electronics that needed charging overnight.

Well my buddy still had doubts so he looked at his heaped kit, took out his wallet, including money and cards then placed it in full view, on top of his personal kit and boarded the passenger train. He faced much ridicule from almost everyone.

The next morning when we signed in, there was his kit heaped up and on top? His wallet, money and cards!

Wouldn't the World be such a wonderful place if these stories were universal?
 
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I found one on the pavement down near five ways in Brum. It had a little hand written note asking Jesus to keep him safe. It obviously worked because I handed it in to the police.
 
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I found a wallet early one morning while walking the dog on a Spanish beach, there was no cash but credit cards, medical cards and some medication of some sort. I presumed the cash had already been taken as the wallet lay open in the sand.
On returning to the campsite we were on a couple of miles away I went through the contents and discovered that the guy that owned it had a heart complaint and the medication was for this.
It belonged to German guy and there was an email address in the wallet, I fired off an email, it wasn't his but a woman answered saying the guy was away on holiday in Spain.
Realising the medication may be needed I decided to take it to the local police station in the next village. As I set off and seeing the site owner at the reception I asked if by chance anyone on site had reported a lost wallet, bearing in mind I found it at least two miles away I didn't expect him to say yes. Apparently there were a group of young German guys camping on site and one had lost his wallet.
I sort them out and handed him his wallet. The reaction from him and his mates was great, they insisted I join them for a couple of beers, which I did, only 9am by now though.
The medication was for his heart transplant and was greatly needed. Lucky guy.

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I was out drinking with two friends years ago. Walked down this very dark alley way. Some idiot had left a piece of wood with a nail through it. It went right through my shoe. When I felt the nail start to push against my foot I fell to the floor instantly to get the weight off that foot.

What i didn't notice because it was so dark. My keys had fallen out of my pocket. When I got home I eventually noticed. Then decided to walk four miles in the p###ing rain to my Mum and Dad's home.

The next day I thought I'd pay a visit to the local police station to see if someone had handed them in. I asked if they had a set of keys with a little red dice attached, (like the ones in a casino). Someone did find them and take the time to hand them in. I never did find who that person was, but they have a good heart. Thank you. I could hardly believe they were in my possession again. Fantastic result.

Geoff51 I hope you get your wallet back. Good luck.🤞

Kind regards,

Clewie.
 
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At the age of 18 I was taking my then girlfriend now wife home, we decided to buy some chips and stopped to eat them at a small industrial estate. While I was doing a 3 point turn to park my lights caught a dog standing over what looked like a body, we got out and it was an elderly gentleman so Lorr stayed with him while I drove to police station (no mobile phone). Ambulance came and old guy had had a heart attack, ambulance guy said he’d probably have died if we hadn’t found him. He lived alone so wouldn’t have been missed until next day, thankfully he lived and police told us he was owner of large hotel and business in town and we’re still waiting for a thank you from the family. Ironically we had our wedding at their hotel 4 years later and he was there 😂😂
 
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lorger said:
At the age of 18 I was taking my then girlfriend now wife home, we decided to buy some chips and stopped to eat them at a small industrial estate. While I was doing a 3 point turn to park my lights caught a dog standing over what looked like a body, we got out and it was an elderly gentleman so Lorr stayed with him while I drove to police station (no mobile phone). Ambulance came and old guy had had a heart attack, ambulance guy said he’d probably have died if we hadn’t found him. He lived alone so wouldn’t have been missed until next day, thankfully he lived and police told us he was owner of large hotel and business in town and we’re still waiting for a thank you from the family. Ironically we had our wedding at their hotel 4 years later and he was there 😂😂
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A dreadful tale!
No discount, no chips and no nookie……….😉

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Very similar.

We found a dog (or rather he found us).

Many, many years ago we camped on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly and walked the entire circumference of the island. Half way round a dog joined us and stayed for the remainder of our walk, a couple of hours or so.

When we got back to the main town, we didn’t know what to do with him so we went into the post office to ask. The lady said ‘oh I know him, he’s always doing that’ and telephoned the owner who turned up 10 minutes later in a Land Rover to collect him!
 
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