My dad taught me, “if it’s not yours, don’t pick it up” Simple. It belongs to someone, just not this turd.
The punishment should be five years of litter collection duty.
That will cure the guy of any desire to “pick up stuff” for a while.
;-)
That solution (don’t pick it up) has value, too. But it would bother me to just leave it there, given that I know there are people in cars behind me that might not be so...trustworthy.
The more I think about it, the only thing is to hand it over to the authorities if there were no identifying characteristics.
Advertising you have it and supplying your phone might put you in contact with people you might not want to be in contact with.
“My dad taught me, “if it’s not yours, don’t pick it up” “
Very good advice if you travel to another country. In most of the world, it’s called the ‘Turkey Drop’ (I think) and you WILL LIKELY regret picking it up, as you’ll be attacked as the perp.
In the US, it’s not too common, yet, but will become common as we transition to a Third World country (thanks to Biden’s Ukraine and Immigration policies), and in Japan, as far as I know if you do pick up a guy’s wallet it’s always to return it to him, at whatever effort or cost to you. But the rest of the world - watch out!
Finders Keepers!😁