Stupid Police

[canman]

Last week we thankfully got a few warm days and some of the huge amounts of snow that was dumped on us started to melt. I came home and parked and looked in the yard and saw a set of car keys. The keys were for a Toyota and had an engine starter remote attached. At first I thought they were my wife's keys, but after a better look I could tell they were someone else. We took them to the police box nearest my house to drop them off, and ask if anybody had inquired about them. They said no, but took our name and information. Then they said after 60days if nobody comes and claims them we can have them. So ineffect they were telling me that if nobody claims the keys, I can go back pick them up and then randomly start to try and find which car they belong to and use them. What the hell do I want with some strangers keys? I know they were thinking about found money, but use your head, you keystone cops.

[Doctor Stop]

Are there house keys or even a chastity belt key attached?

[kurohinge1]

. . . The keys were for a Toyota and had an engine starter remote attached. At first I thought they were my wife's keys, but after a better look I could tell they were someone else. We took them to the police box nearest my house to drop them off, and ask if anybody had inquired about them. They said no, but took our name and information. Then they said after 60days if nobody comes and claims them we can have them. . .

How exciting - buried treasure!

The possibilities are almost endless:

<insert annoying commercial music>

1. Rip out the batteries and stick them in your own car key remotes (or watches!) - saving up to hundreds of . . . yen]Rip the circuits out to possibly replace your own remotes should they ever fail;
2. Use it as a paperweight;
3. Keep it as a dummy key for the next time you get car-jacked - just throw 'em the dummy key and run. By they time they work out they've been duped, you should be a difficult target to shoot. (Keep ducking and weaving as you go);
4. Put a "Lost/wasuremono" add in the paper, and meet new people!;
5. Use it as a coffee stirrer;
6. Run around the mall pretending it's a Star Trek phaser and pretend to stun people - more than they'll be stunned anyway;
7. Wrap it in a box and give it to your wife for her birthday;
8. Bury it in the yard as a "time capsule" to show people (or evolved cockroaches) in hundreds of years' time what lost car keys looked like in 2009;
9. Sell it back to Toyota - ring them first for a quote to replace that exact type of key (from experience, some car companies can charge over $100!) then tell them you'll sell one back for the same price; or
10. Mail it to me

It's like winning the lottery, except not.

[ChoCpoC]

My fav....

[*]Wrap it in a box and give it to your wife for her birthday;

How exciting - buried treasure!

The possibilities are almost endless:

<insert annoying commercial music>

1. Rip out the batteries and stick them in your own car key remotes (or watches!) - saving up to hundreds of . . . yen]Rip the circuits out to possibly replace your own remotes should they ever fail;
2. Use it as a paperweight;
3. Keep it as a dummy key for the next time you get car-jacked - just throw 'em the dummy key and run. By they time they work out they've been duped, you should be a difficult target to shoot. (Keep ducking and weaving as you go);
4. Put a "Lost/wasuremono" add in the paper, and meet new people!;
5. Use it as a coffee stirrer;
6. Run around the mall pretending it's a Star Trek phaser and pretend to stun people - more than they'll be stunned anyway;
7. Wrap it in a box and give it to your wife for her birthday;
8. Bury it in the yard as a "time capsule" to show people (or evolved cockroaches) in hundreds of years' time what lost car keys looked like in 2009;
9. Sell it back to Toyota - ring them first for a quote to replace that exact type of key (from experience, some car companies can charge over $100!) then tell them you'll sell one back for the same price; or
10. Mail it to me

It's like winning the lottery, except not.

[kusai Jijii]

[quote="kurohinge1"]
It's like winning the lottery, except not.

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