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Old 12-23-2006, 02:32 PM   #11
Stuey
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I agree - you did the right thing. It might have been possible to find out who the owner was, but Windows probably has a password login, and I doubt Dell would have given away the user's telephone number and address.

Another MTA story: My father went into his bag once and randomly saw a phone in there. He asked the guy standing next to him if he had dropped his phone. The guy patted himself down and said he had lost it, so my father gave it back. People forget all kinds of stuff on the train - wallets, keys, and supposedly laptops hehe.

I found a cell phone in a parking lot during a heavy downpour once and later called Verizon. They said that the serial number would allow them to track down the owner and call them up, so I dropped it off at the nearest VZ store. Unfortunately, when my father lost my mother's phone and my sister lost hers, two people did NOT do the right thing.
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