Good Samaritan at WDW!!

[JenG]

We just returned from a 8day trip to WDW and on the 5th day I lost my purse.

It was raining at Epcot and we were hurrying to get to the monorail and I didn't realize that my purse was missing until we got back to BLT. I had about $26, all my credit cards, ,my driver's license and our annual passes in there. I checked with management immediately but they told me to call lost and found in the am.

I called right at 9am and they put me on hold for 2-3 (LOONNG) minutes and came back to tell me that it was found!! Nothing was missing - the cards, license, passes all there - even the $.35 in change!! Someone had turned it in last night.

Just thought I would let the board know that there are still honest people in the WDW!! Thank you to the person who returned it if by chance they are a DIS'r!!

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

I've also lost things at WDW in the past and was surprised to get them back. One was a hat I've worn for years with at least $100 worth of pins on it. I was in and out of the Lost & Found in five minutes with my hat.

I think the majority of people will do the right thing and turn in a lost item they find. Of course that doesn't mean there aren't still a good number of bad apples out there.

 

[jade1]

Great to hear. I have to ask my DBIL but he left his camcorder on Main Street once. It was never turned in, but about a month later he got a call out of the blue from a guy that had it. Really weird but he was able to figure it by what he had on the tape.

Since then we always take a picture of our return address on our cameras in case we lose them. Although we alreay lost one so it didn't work that time.

 

[jekjones1558]

Thanks for posting this good news. A year or so ago I left a new camera on the safari ride. I realized it within minutes but never got the camera back. Your post helps restore my faith in WDW guests and CMs.

 

[dvcterry]

this is such a nice post. i'm so glad to hear everything turned out well for you. hopefully that good deed won't go unnoticed for that good samaritan too. it's really nice to know that someone did the honest thing.

 

[cvjw]

I found a purse a couple of weeks ago on the Buzz Lightyear ride. Obviously, the person in the ride vehicle before us had left it. I turned it right in to a CM - I would never dream of keeping someone else's property. I would like to think that the majority of other people feel the same way.

 

[donalduck]

that's pretty cool ya know most people now days would just steal the purse.

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

ya know most people now days would just steal the purse.

I know it is just an opinion but I think most people would turn it in. Great news you got it back.

HBC

 

[BEASLYBOO]

Just thought I would let the board know that there are still honest people in the WDW!! Thank you to the person who returned it if by chance they are a DIS'r!!

It's terrible that we live in a world where it's surprising that someone would do the honest and honorable thing without thought of recompense!

Thanks for sharing, it does the soul good to hear stories like this!

 

[Irishmom23]

Oh so glad for your good fortune and kudos to the kind person who turned it in. Last January I lost my new camera and it was never turned in, though I hoped it would be. No one's fault but my own as I have no ides where I misplaced it, but it was the day before we were leaving and had the Osborne Lights and the Christmas decorations on it. Will just have to go back again and take more

 

[WsPrincess]

That is awesome! I am glad people are looking out for each other.

 

[DMKEDM]

My favorite lost-and-found story: my son dropped his drivers license on the floor of the ME coach taking us back to the airport...he didn't discover it was missing until he tried to go through security and couldn't!

That was a time we were VERY happy about the 3 hours from pick-up to flight time!

Ultimately, Security let him through on his Student ID (college), after a lot of sorting and checking and proving...

We got home; he went to our DMV and got a new drivers license. We tried going through ME to see if it had been found, but no luck...

Three weeks later, the license arrived in the mail...a nice person had found it on the bus and mailed it back to us.

It had an unexpected silver lining...you need drivers licenses to prove where you live when you get a DVC AP and typically, at AP renewal time, he was still at school (within a day of being on his way) when I arrived at WDW...but I had his returned drivers license (while he carried his re-issued one), so I was able to pick up his AP at the same time I picked up mine. Turned out to be "the best loss"--from a logistical point of view--ever!

 

[dvc4life]

Very good news for you.

I have been on both ends of this one. Left my purse one time in the dressing room at Typhoon Lagoon. It had everything in it. Thank goodness before we left the park a wonderful CM came carrying it towards the front gates where we were at. I never thanked someone so much in my life.

And then once when we dined at Rose & Crown I went to the restroom and found a wallet on top of the toilet dispenser. I looked in it and there was ID, Credit cards and a couple hundred dollars cash. Wow, I thought someone is really gonna have a bummer vacation. So, I turned it in at the bar telling them where I found it before going back to finish my meal with my family. On the way out of the restaurant I stopped back by the bar to ask if anyone had come back to claim the wallet. They said yes and that it was a CM who worked there and she was so thankful that it had been turned in. It made me feel great.

 

[NollyGirl]

Last February I left my wedding rings in the room safe (don't asK) and we were half way home before I realized it. Thanks to the diligence of the Disney staff and the very honest "new "residents of our former room, my rings were recovered and Disney shipped them home to me.

Now THAT's honesty!

Thank You!

 

[kaitlyn0616]

Last January I was in the laundry room at Kidani Village doing my laundry and had borrowed my son's Ipod touch the next morning I realized I had accidentally left it there, when I went back to the laundry room it obviously wasn't there so I went to the front desk and it was there, there are some honest people out there!!!

 

[moredisneyplease]

amazing!!!!!

 

[Maleficent53]

On our trip with my DGS, his crocs went missing on day 1 from the pool area. We looked every day when we walked thru to see if they were sitting somewhere, but never found them. They were somewhat unusual (MN Wild hockey team logo and color) so we figure it wasn't likely that someone just mistakenly picked up the wrong pair. Good thing we had other shoes for him to wear....

On the other had, I have lost my purse (twice!) and both times had it returned intact.

 

[SamSam]

I left my camera hanging on the hook in the restroom stall, not once, but twice and it was turned in both times. There are plenty of good people out there, we just hear more about the bad.

 

[SEC71]

My husband found $100 at the Main Street bakery earlier this month and immediately turned it in.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I've lost a phone and had gotten it back, mailed to me at their expense!Earlier this year, I left my sunhat at a F&G demo, the hat had my favorite pin on it, F&G from 2011. At first I was disappointed, but the CM found me at another demo with the hat AND PIN! I had felt sadder about losing the pin than the hat, but in the end, I lost neither!