New Yorker gets stolen wallet back after 40 years

That's so cute!

Impressive! So sweet.

I lost a diamond necklace in a hotel in North Carolina last year. Not surprisingly, "no one saw it." I almost vomited over losing that.

@JenMac that's awful I can totally relate ..many years ago at a friends engagement party, I had way too many tequila shots and was a total mess.. that night I lost a big diamond ring of mum's. She didnt say anything to me but I still have regrets about that night..

It always blows my mind that people can do that. I could never steal anyone's jewelry. It usually has some kind of emotional value to even add to the insult of taking someone else's belonging.

I lost a diamond necklace as well - I think I left it in a house where I lived in LA, but none of the roommates ever saw it. Of course. That or my lost passport.

@JenMac,BroadwayBK don't you feel violated when you lose something as valuable as a piece of jewelry?

@uptowngirl It is the worst...especially because there is nothing much you can do about it.

@uptown: absolutely. I find it so much more offensive that someone wouldn't return jewelry than if it were anything else I left behind.
@Broadway: weird. I also lost my passport in the same year I lost the necklace. Except, I actually have no idea where my passport went. It literally disappeared.

@JenMac Passports can be a valuable item to steal, there's a huge black market for them.

@JenMac Same thing here - I had my passport, and then I didn't. And I'm not sure when exactly I stopped having it, so it's difficult to say which side of the country I lost it on. At least I lost it while still in the US. I replaced it, but my new one is so blank in comparison...

@BroadwayBK I would go crazy if my passport was ever stolen..it's such a pain to deal with Indian bureaucracy in order to get it re-issued but then who would ever steal an Indian passport? maybe in twenty years when and if India fulfills its potential as a super power may be then its passports will be as coveted as US passports.

This is almost as cute as that Doberman dog that got saved by dolphins in Florida! I've actually only ever seriously lost something in London. On my way to my Oxford interview (coming into London via Heathrow), I left my purse containing my passport, wallet, phone, "good luck" items, and all my money on the Baker Street Tube Stop. Luckily they picked it up and kept it for me when I returned, frantically, 5 minutes later...

@ajadedidealist Lucky! That is much cuter than any Doberman incidents...

@BroadwayBK indeed ajadedidealist you are truly lucky to have got your stuff back in a city like London where crime is rampant.

@jadeidealist Yes, lucky girl.

Good thing I kept my "good luck" items in my purse when I lost it! (And it seems to have worked - I got in, and spent three of the best years of my life there...and counting!)