Your walkin' down the street when you look down and notice a knife...............

I don't know about anyone else's town, but our local police department has a property and evidence department. I would turn it in as found property, keep a copy of the report, and check back in 90 days to see if the rightful owner had claimed it. If not, then that dude is mine.

Of course, around here if I found a $300 knife laying around, odds are it was mine to begin with. Like Cougar, I've lost way more dollars worth of knives than I have found.
 
Interesting answers... one must make a decision early in life on how to handle these little temptations. Handling them with integrity prepares you for the big ones later in life.
 
I'd snatch it up and just post a lost/found here, I'm sure most anyone owning a high end knife would be on various knife forums. Hell they'd probably make a "hey guys I lost my CR" thread.
 
I also have never never found knives worth the ones I have lost (never lost a 300 bones knife of course).

A while ago, I found a day planner with a 500+ PDA/phone, and a wad of cash too boot (not to mention the credit cards and checks).

long story short, I had already called a bunch of the numbers in the Phone/pda to try and track the owner on my way to the lost and found at the university. I noticed a frantic looking kid coming from the direction I was headed, and recognized him from his ID in the planner. stopped him and gave it back. I told him I had already called some of the numbers to track him down. No thanks from the kid, but at least I felt good.

I hate when I loose stuff, and hate even more then some one steals my stuff (my brother's friends used to steal my knifes, and I would get them back a long time later with broken tips or broken locks when my brother would stumble on them).

I misplaced over $1,000 of my own money for more than a year. Luckily my mom had filed it in the filing cabinet under M for money (she did not remember ever touching it)

Another time I lost $10,000 for almost a month (which was not mine).....that was stressful . So I know how it feels to loose something important.
 
Quite frankly, I wouldn't necessarily touch a knife I found lying around on the ground. In the worst case, someone had just "used" it on someone, and I'd just get my prints on it by touching it. Now, if it was in place where children would be likely to walk, then I'd have to pick it up, and carefully, and take it somewhere else. But I have no desire to keep anyone else's knives.
 
If it happened to me, I'd keep the knife, as a gift from the "Knife God". However, if someone ever called me on it, i.e., someone ever says, "Hey, Troop, that's a nice knife....I lost one a couple of years ago just like it...", I'd give it to him, right away...no questions asked.
Let me ask you guys something.....If you found a 20.00 bill laying on the ground in the parking lot, with nobody close to you that just may have dropped it, of your local supermarket or Wal-mart, what would you do then? Go to the courtesy desk and say, "Did anybody just lose this 20.00 bill?" No, right? "That's different", right? ......Horsecrap. It's the same thing.
However, if I actually saw the bill fall from someones pocket or hand, I would tell them about it immediately.
Same with a knife.
 
Here's something an old gullah woman once told me....

Never pick up a knife you find by chance.
Knives are not like other things in this world...they have a powerful spirit in them.
If that spirit is foul it could harm you and bring you great misfortune and misery.
 
allenC said:
Here's something an old gullah woman once told me....

Never pick up a knife you find by chance.
Knives are not like other things in this world...they have a powerful spirit in them.
If that spirit is foul it could harm you and bring you great misfortune and misery.
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How about if it has a "good spirit"? I mean, I just found a $ 300.00 knife.
So, far, things are looking up!:D
-All kidding aside, I've heard of this before, and I believe it may be true.
 
Troop said:
If it happened to me, I'd keep the knife, as a gift from the "Knife God". However, if someone ever called me on it, i.e., someone ever says, "Hey, Troop, that's a nice knife....I lost one a couple of years ago just like it...", I'd give it to him, right away...no questions asked.
Let me ask you guys something.....If you found a 20.00 bill laying on the ground in the parking lot, with nobody close to you that just may have dropped it, of your local supermarket or Wal-mart, what would you do then? Go to the courtesy desk and say, "Did anybody just lose this 20.00 bill?" No, right? "That's different", right? ......Horsecrap. It's the same thing.
However, if I actually saw the bill fall from someones pocket or hand, I would tell them about it immediately.
Same with a knife.
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I would fall into this category, if someone told me they were missing a knife on the forums or around I would obviously let them have it if it were there's.
 
If I found a Sebenza on the ground I'd drive it to Reeve's shop , in my fair city, and tell him what happened. Chances are he might know who the owner is.
 
Get the knife back to the owner.
Restore someone's faith in humanity,
I know how I would feel.

Doug
 
yablanowitz said:
I don't know about anyone else's town, but our local police department has a property and evidence department. I would turn it in as found property, keep a copy of the report, and check back in 90 days to see if the rightful owner had claimed it. If not, then that dude is mine.

Of course, around here if I found a $300 knife laying around, odds are it was mine to begin with. Like Cougar, I've lost way more dollars worth of knives than I have found.
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That was pretty much my reaction on reading the thread. I knew that Police departments do the Found Property thing, but wasn't aware you could keep a copy of the report.

Good info for future reference.

I've had a few things I set down or dropped 'disappear' forever. An expensive pair of sunglasses, for instance. I wouldn't want to do that to someone else.
 
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