In Sweden a woman in our group left her purse in an establishment we visited. We went back a couple days later and it was unbelievably still hanging on the back of the chair (as she had left it) in which she had been sitting, apparently untouched with her passport, cards and cash all in it.
In New Zealand a woman on another tour bus left a plastic purse with over $1,500 in cash in a restroom at a tour bus stop. A passenger on our bus discovered it and turned it in to our bus driver who phoned the other bus driver and it was returned. The woman who owned the purse did not want to offer any reward but her bus driver insisted she give the finder $50!
It depends on just who finds it which is statistically related to the moral demographic of the population in the region. In most places in the USA today it would be gone, gone, gone. It is good to hear in The Villages many if not most lost purses and wallets are returned.
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