# Fuck the dishonest people among us. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187 "2011-02-22T02:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/21 "2011-02-22T23:14:57Z")
Huh. Today I found a set of keys, including car keys and a magnetic key pass, on the sidewalk today. I didn’t want to just leave them on the phone so I took 'em home and put up an add on Craigslist. Nobody’s responded yet. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/22 "2011-02-22T23:17:29Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Huh. Today I found a set of keys, including car keys and a magnetic key pass, on the sidewalk today. I didn’t want to just leave them on the phone so I took 'em home and put up an add on Craigslist. > > Nobody’s responded yet. ☹ Are you being very subtly facetious, here? Or do you actually think an ad on CL is enough? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/23 "2011-02-22T23:18:37Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > Are you being very subtly facetious, here? Or do you actually think an ad on CL is enough? Dunno, what else am I gonna do? Wait on the corner? ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/24 "2011-02-22T23:21:40Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Huh. Today I found a set of keys, including car keys and a magnetic key pass, on the sidewalk today. I didn’t want to just leave them on the phone so I took 'em home and put up an add on Craigslist. > > Nobody’s responded yet. ☹ I would never even think of checking Craig’s List if I lost my keys. And I’m under 40. Is there any info on the magnetic card? You’ll probably have more success that way. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/25 "2011-02-22T23:24:39Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Dunno, what else am I gonna do? Wait on the corner? turn it into the police? leave it where you found it, since that’s invariably better than taking it, posting about it on some obscure website that no one (edit: 99.99% of a given population, unless that population was located inside craig’s headquarters) would think to check, and calling it a day? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/26 "2011-02-22T23:32:27Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I would never even think of checking Craig’s List if I lost my keys. And I’m under 40. Is there any info on the magnetic card? You’ll probably have more success that way. Sadly only whatever is magnetically encoded. > [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > turn it into the police? > > leave it where you found it, since that’s invariably better than taking it, posting about it on some obscure website that no one (edit: 99.99% of a given population, unless that population was located inside craig’s headquarters) would think to check, and calling it a day? Leaving them on the sidewalk would be a bad idea for multiple reasons. I’ll probably give the police a call when I get a chance, but I really don’t expect much assistance from the CPD. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/27 "2011-02-22T23:42:16Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Huh. Today I found a set of keys, including car keys and a magnetic key pass, on the sidewalk today. I didn’t want to just leave them on the phone so I took 'em home and put up an add on Craigslist. “On the phone”? ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/28 "2011-02-22T23:43:35Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Leaving them on the sidewalk would be a bad idea for multiple reasons. Such as? (I mean, how is it worse than some random stranger picking them up and posting an obscure advertisement as to their whereabouts) ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/29 "2011-02-22T23:44:16Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > “On the phone”? Heh, weird typo. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/30 "2011-02-22T23:48:17Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > Such as? > > (I mean, how is it worse than some random stranger picking them up and posting an obscure advertisement as to their whereabouts) Being picked up by a random stranger who stole their car? Being picked up by a random child who just took them for the key ring? Being crushed under a plow blade? Stuck in a snowbank for who knows how long? Being picked up by a Chicago politician? ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/31 "2011-02-22T23:57:44Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Being picked up by a random stranger who stole their car? > Being picked up by a random child who just took them for the key ring? > Being crushed under a plow blade? > Stuck in a snowbank for who knows how long? > Being picked up by a Chicago politician? How is any of that worse than you picking them up and removing them from where someone lost them? You basically are removing the possibility of the keys ever being recovered by the owner tracing his steps because you were overly concerned with someone else doing something bad to them. I mean, I hope i’m not coming across as too critical since your heart was in the right place, but to me leaving them would’ve been better than taking them “from the scene” and making a post on craigslist ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/32 "2011-02-23T00:02:39Z")
Did you try the car fob to see if the car was nearby? You could have put a note under the windshield wipers then, if it was. Sorry about the Nook, **Cartooniverse**. I hate it when, through my own actions, something like this happens. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/33 "2011-02-23T00:19:52Z")
I took a day trip from Portland to Seattle for business recently, and realized I had left my book in the seat back. Later that night on the return flight I found it in the same spot, with my outbound boarding pass still doing bookmark duty. Granted, I always book the same seat and there aren’t many routes for Alaska to be using this particular tiny plane, but still…thanks non-diligent plane cleaning Alaska employees! ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/34 "2011-02-23T00:26:51Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I took a day trip from Portland to Seattle for business recently, and realized I had left my book in the seat back. > > Later that night on the return flight I found it in the same spot, with my outbound boarding pass still doing bookmark duty. > > Granted, I always book the same seat and there aren’t many routes for Alaska to be using this particular tiny plane, but still…thanks non-diligent plane cleaning Alaska employees! I don’t think planes get thoroughly cleaned anymore when they aren’t “parked for the night” - like if the plane is sitting at its non homebase airport waiting for the return flight to go to its home base. When there’s a late inbound aicraft, and a turnaround to get the plane out, the cleaning crew is in there for 5 minutes, tops. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/35 "2011-02-23T00:40:44Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I don’t think planes get thoroughly cleaned anymore when they aren’t “parked for the night” - like if the plane is sitting at its non homebase airport waiting for the return flight to go to its home base. > > When there’s a late inbound aicraft, and a turnaround to get the plane out, the cleaning crew is in there for 5 minutes, tops. That’s this route for sure. There’s ~25 one way flights from PDX-SEA / SEA-PDX per day. I wonder how many different planes they use? Also, I should’ve thanked Horizon - they operate them all. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/36 "2011-02-23T02:17:03Z")
> [@xoferew](#): > > I always assumed the flight crews went through each seat pocket between flights to make sure everyone had their crappy skymall catalog and vomit bag and emergency exit card that shows the plane floating perkily on the surface of the ocean. You are very wrong. If the OP was flying coach, if my experience is anything to go by, the Nook is probably still in the seat pocket. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/37 "2011-02-23T06:19:13Z")
> [@Rumor\_Watkins](#): > > I mean, I hope i’m not coming across as too critical since your heart was in the right place, but to me leaving them would’ve been better than taking them “from the scene” and making a post on craigslist Maybe a bit critical. I got an e-mail from the owner an hour or so ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/38 "2011-02-23T16:11:38Z")
> [@j66](#): > > You are very wrong. If the OP was flying coach, if my experience is anything to go by, the Nook is probably still in the seat pocket. I was up front in First. Interesting, that this would make a difference. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/39 "2011-02-23T16:16:04Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Man, this is **SO** the thread I didn’t need to see. I left my iPad on a plane yesterday. Here’s hoping Air Canada is a bit more on the ball. I left my iPad on a plane about a month ago. I flew in to Kamloops in Air Canada and didn’t realize it until about 11 pm that night. I called the only number open at that hour (Cargo) and they knew exactly what I was looking for as soon as I said I left something on the plane. I was able to pick it up the next day. Also, I recently found out that there is an App you can download to your iPad that you can access remotely from your computer. It locks the screen and displays a message saying it’s lost/stolen, etc. The best part is that you can see on a map exactly where it is! I’m assuming this only works if you have 3G though. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187/40 "2011-02-23T16:30:26Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > Also, I recently found out that there is an App you can download to your iPad that you can access remotely from your computer. It locks the screen and displays a message saying it’s lost/stolen, etc. The best part is that you can see on a map exactly where it is! > > I’m assuming this only works if you have 3G though. No it will work on a WiFi network as well. You may now point and laugh at the insurance broker who chose not to purchase this app for his iPad.:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-dishonest-people-among-us/572187.md?page=3)