Originally Posted By: gbeer
On another note. Sometimes it's best to just leave the item where it is spotted.

An iPad was left on a shelf in a room at work. The owner returned for it a few mins. later. There wasn't large risk of it disappearing from that location. Except from the employee who wandered by and picked it up "for safekeeping". That person was almost accused of theft.

An excellent point. However, this was early in the morning and I spotted the watch in the gutter. I only dared touch something in a Washington DC gutter because I was pretty sure someone would miss it, so I grabbed a napkin out of my glove box and threw the watch on the passenger side floor until I could wipe it off.

As for the rest of this thread, I think things might have gotten a bit out of hand here. I took John's post as tongue in cheek, but it seems some buried resentment might have boiled up here. I'm sorry to hear you were feeling that way, Tom, and encourage you to stick around. I'm looking forward to your post in the FBI thread.
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Matt