Return of stolen items

I lost a camera out at the bars one Halloween. I lost it, it wasn't stolen. Anyway I was really ****** because of the photos I lost not the camera (my buddies and I were 80's wrestlers). A few days later I got a message on Facebook from a guy I hadn't talked to since college. He was friends with the guy who found my camera and the guy posted the pics on Facebook inquiring friends on if they recognized anyone. I was recognized in the pics so he reached out to me telling me his friend found my camera. I contacted the guy and got my camera back.

My xbox live account was hacked one time and the person bought 25000 xbox live points using a stolen credit card from Canada. 25000 live points is a little over $300. My account was seized and after everything was sorted out I got my account back (after a month) with a ton of new map packs in various games and various upgrades in FIFA AND 8000 ($100) live points still in there.

My brother lost his wallet in Stephens at my convocation in 2005. Someone returned it to the Iowa State Center with his ID, credit cards and $200 cash in it. They didn't even leave their name or anything, so we just had to abuse an old cliche and pay it forward.

It didn't happen to me personally, but one of my good friends had his iPhone stolen from the gym. He used Find My iPhone to get the location but the phone was shut off. A couple hours later he got an email stating the location of the phone since someone had turned it back on. He called DMPD and had an officer meet him near where the phone was. They both went up to the house and he got his phone back. The residents tried to deny that it was there and my friend told him that if he gets it back now, he won't press charges. If they don't give it to him, he's going to file a report and cops will come back for them and the phone.

He got his phone back right then and all is good.

Wifes car was stolen out of our driveway in Waterloo (I was messing around in the car early in the day and left the keys in it and forgot to take them out overnight.)

We called the cops and filed the report. Had to go through the hassle of borrowing a car from my inlaws and everything but 3 days later the cops called and they had found our car. The theives had smoked some weed (judging by the smell and the ashes) in the car and left the windows down (good and bad) which sucked because it rained. All in all very little damage and they only stole (other than the car itself) a few CD's (this was back in early 2000's before mp3's).

Best thing about the situation was that we were prompted to get the hell out of "The Loo" shortly after this.

Mine is a two parter....

First off I was back home at my parents house. I left Des Moines and went there without cashing my paycheck as I figured I could just do it at the atm in the home town bank. I get thru the drive thru and I don't see any envelopes so out of curiousity I pull forward to the stainless steel deposit area for just deposits. There's a cover that you lift so i did and found an envelope...full of cash. It was sealed but you could definitely tell it was cash and a label "House Payment" on it. They had just set it there instead of putting it in to the actual deposit chute. I went home and told my parents so they could call someone as it was a Saturday afternoon and closed for the weekend. They knew a lady at the bank who took care of it.

3 days later i leave my binder for work on top of my car near the airport in Des Moines and drive off....I get a call an hour later from a guy that drove across town to meet me and return it. He checked my ID first to make sure it was me and then mentioned the show My Name is Earl and paying it forward.

So not stolen but kind of related? /csb

Weird kind of twist for me. Locked my keys in the car at work. Had the locksmith come and get them, paid the $40 by check. Get a phone call from them the next day. Ironically, their van had been broken into and my check was stolen. They weren't wanting another check, they just wanted to tell me so that I could put a stop payment on it. I thought later that they had performed the service, so I drove there the next day at lunch to pay them their $40. I also intended to get a copy of my car key, which has an electronic chip. That would cost $75. Because I came back and paid the $40, they made my car key for free.

Got 2:

Last year, one of my colleagues at work (who works from home) came home from lunch and found his back door broken. He called the police, as he wasn't sure whether he was in the process of being robbed. Sure enough he had been robbed, so he went through the house with the police and noted the stolen items (jewelry, electronics, cash). The police also got a description of a car from a neighbor. A couple of hours later, the police called him and asked him to meet them at the I-20 access road by the Parks Mall in Arlington. The took him up to the trunk of a car they had pulled over, and asked him to identify his stuff, which was all there, except for a small portion of the cash. The police gave it back to him right there...which seems a little odd. The police said they had everything photographed/videoed, and didn't need to keep the physical evidence. Apparently, the robbers were responsible for a number of home robberies in the area.

Back when I was in high school...our farm hired hand called in early one morning that his back was hurting badly and that he was going out of town to see a chiropractor. He did have a back issue, so nothing out of the ordinary there. Our farm buildings were right on the city limits so we lived in the small town. Upon entering the shop that morning, my Dad found numerous tools missing. He then headed to a close-by field where the big tractor (which had a number of big expensive tools) was parked, and found that the tools had been cleaned out. Nothing broken at either location, so whoever did it had key.

Later that day, after word got around that we had been robbed, someone reported to the sheriff that they had seen our hired hand heading out of town that morning (opposite direction of where the chiro was), and the back of his car looked loaded down. Next morning, the hired hand called in sick again and was asking about workers comp stuff. My dad told him about the robbery, and of course he was shocked. In the meantime, the county sheriff and the state police were investigating, and tracked the tools down in a pawn shop about 100 miles away, and (not surprisingly) the hired hand was the culprit. We got everything back.

My daughter lost her Ipod at a track meet. Once we discovered that it was gone, I drove back to the town where she lost it and searched for it with a flashlight. As I was about to give up searching I ran across some members of the local booster club. They told me that a couple of girls from another school had found it on the ground and had turned it in at the concession stand. Very honorable thing for a couple of high school girls to do. We will never know who it was.

OP: Did they get the piece of garbage that did this?

A couple of years ago, I came out to my car in the morning and found the door left slightly open and then my son who was in kindergarten at the time noticed his backpack was missing. I probably wouldn't have reported it because nothing really of value was missing from the car or garage, but I noticed a few cop cars in the neighborhood talking to people. Apparently someone had gotten in to cars over night and taken stuff. So I filed a report and within an hour they had caught the guy because he was walking around with a kids backpack and it still had my son's school i.d. on it. Needless to say he went to jail and everybody got their stuff back.

On a somewhat related note... I found a Jr. Clone Club Pass west of the Alumni Building last Saturday walking to the game and turned it into the ticket office. Hopefully, they can track it to the owner because I know I would be ticked if my kid lost their pass with all of football and bball season left.

Good stuff. One of the better threads, top to bottom I have read in a while. Thanks for sharing all. Restores a little faith.

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Originally Posted by NickTheGreat

OP: Did they get the piece of garbage that did this?

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I didn't ask. I'm guessing he sold it on the streets to someone who "didn't know" it was stolen, but I'm not sure.

In other news, got the iPod back. Unfortunately they had cleared all of the music off of it, so no Kenny G or Justin Bieber.

This story is legitimately cool, pretty crazy that you actually got it back after so long.

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Originally Posted by ianoconnor

I didn't ask. I'm guessing he sold it on the streets to someone who "didn't know" it was stolen, but I'm not sure.

In other news, got the iPod back. Unfortunately they had cleared all of the music off of it, so no Kenny G or Justin Bieber.

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Well THAT sucks. But at least you got it back :smile: