*snort*

I hereby declare Jeff the comment champ. IMHO, of course.

Yikes!

In January of this year, my wife and I happened to be strolling through the East Village on a visit to New York. We came across a large wallet/cellphone pouch in the middle of the sidewalk. As luck would have it, the owner had “Home” stored in his cellphone, so I dialled the number and – long story short – we met up with the owner and his partner later that night in a Village bar.

Turned out the poor guy was an artist who had just had his best ever day selling his artwork on the streets of Soho. I hadn’t even looked in the wallet, but he reckoned he had over $600 in cash inside it, along with pretty much his entire life (credit cards, driving license – all the usual stuff).

I’m very glad I hadn’t heard about Operation Lucky Bag prior to finding this bloke’s wallet. But then, if I had – I STILL would have picked it up and made efforts to return it.

Nice police state they’re building down there in NY.