Weirdest things left on London’s public transport
Hundreds of bags are forgotten every day on public transport
The volume of lost items each year on London buses is huge, and very few of them are returned to their owners.
Hasty like the Londoners, living in a city that is constantly running to catch something, they leave behind all sorts of objects, amounting to 340,000 a year.
Every day, London’s public transport officials estimate that 300 forgotten bags, 110 mobile phones and much more are collected in a daily total of 1,100 items on a daily basis. They come not only from the metro and buses, but also from the railways, even taxis.
According to a video posted by the American website Business Insider, the lost of the public transport are collected in a huge warehouse with a detailed record of contents, time and place of collection, so that anyone can go there to find what he lost, upon electronic request.
On average, Transport for London receives around 1,100 lost items pic.twitter.com/ditVaQrdDs
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) December 15, 2020
About one in eight items have the holder’s details on them, allowing Transport for London (TfL) to locate him.
The lost ones are stored for three months and then most of them are donated to charities. However, if any of them have a significant resale value, they are put up for sale online anonymously and the revenue boosts the Loss Office budget, along with the cash that is found and not sought.
As for the strangest lost object, the people in charge end up with a. Parachute that they found forgotten (closed). Apparently the owner thought he only needed it on a flight, not to get off the crowded red double-decker bus in the British capital.
Source: Business Insider