News,NEW YORK, Odd Items Found on City Trains, Buses. (phone, daughter)

[John1960]

NEW YORK (AP) -- When transit supervisor Eulette Stewart-Graham received a letter from the parent of a distressed child, it wasn't the boy's lost bag that was important - it was the contents: his goldfish, Slurpy. The boy's pet never turned up, but Stewart-Graham responded to the letter anyway. As station supervisor of New York City Transit's lost property unit, she and her staff are used to questions that range from the mundane to the quirky and even bizarre.

Take, for instance, the woman who called to say she lost her daughter.

"She was serious," Stewart-Graham says. "She wouldn't get off the phone."

More of this subject below,

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SUBWAY_LOST_FOUND?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE =DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-03-17-04-25-47 (broken link)

[dandevder]

How can you possibly leave some of those things they mention behind? I think the wheelchair would be hard to forget...or maybe the computer moniter or the daughter!

[Cosmic]

It gets even better in taxis. Especially the ones like in Boston.

One trip I came back via the airport, got a taxi home. On the way, I had him stop by my girlfriends place to take her too. She had this retriever dog, so the taxi guy said it would be alright if he went too.

On the way home, the dog disappeared, he was no longer in the taxi, tho nobody had opened any doors. That dog was an escape artist, had gone into the trunk thru a hole in the back seat.

We looked for that dog everywhere, finally the taxi guy said the only place left is the trunk. Sacked out next to my bag.

One of these days, one of those places will have found what is left of Jimmy Hoffa, in a brown bundle under a seat.