Lost and Found

If you have lost or found an item, (after doing the things below), list it here. You should also make tags/stickers reading "Reward for Return email: xxxxx phone xxxx" and place them on all your valuables, ESPECIALLY those things you carry with you or move around alot. Many, possibly most, people are honest and ethical and will return your item to you -for free- if you just make it reasonably possible for them to do so. Make a list of your items with descriptions, serial numbers, and photographs -that way you'll have something to go on when they disappear. Make a photocopy of the items in your wallet and your key ring. That way you'll know what you lost/who to contact and can also remember what keys went where. Don't carry around more than you reasonably use. Make backups and spares, keep them in a safe at home.

• Do you know where you lost it? If so, go there and look for it. Write a note "Lost xxx. Email xxx" and affix it there. Retrace your steps. What is the nearest place someone might have returned it to? Go there and ask if it's been turned in. Leave a contact for them in case it gets turned in. If it was lost in the Memorial Union, see the MU Games Area Desk. If it's very valuable, call the Davis Police Department ((530)747-5400 ext. 4 or (530) 747-5441) and leave a message. If on campus, visit the UC Davis Police Department, they have a lost-and-found. You can also leave a message at (530)752-3272. UCDPD also has a relationship with a commercial website that operates a lost and found website.
  

• If it is a person or a pet there are specific pages where you can post information.
  

• If you lost something in the campus computer lab you can check with the CRC to see if the item is in the computer lab lost and found bin. After a week the lost items in the bin is turned over to the Academic Technology Services Client Services Desk in 1440 Surge II.
  

• If you lost something of value in a classroom or lecture hall, it will be left in the classroom, usually in a container of some kind in the front of the room. If the item is above a certain value (laptops, phones, small children), it will be sent immediately to the UC Davis Police Department's lost-and-found.
  

• Sometimes, people place classified ads in The California Aggie.
  

• Make a post on UCDavis Livejournal
  

• Put up fliers.
  

• Post on Craigslist and/or the Davis Enterprise.
  

• Post it here. If it was a bicycle, post it here.

• Do the above in reverse. Leave a tag at the location saying "Found item, turned in to MU Information Desk" (for example). Turn it in to the info desk, or police department, or such. Sometimes it's actually better to leave the item where it was to give the owner a chance to return and collect it.

You can put down your name and leave your number at the both the UCDPD office and the MU Info Desk, but there is little else you can do except hope a Good Samaritan turns it in while you wait. The majority of people are ethical and will return valuable lost items if they can. It's only a tiny number of individuals who do all the damage in society.

Make sure you have contact information on the items you carry, so if something is lost someone is able to return it to you. If there's no such info, they have little hope of returning it no matter how much they want to. I put my email and phone number on such items (i.e. cell phone). Larger supermarkets have plastic key ring tags which will allow them to get lost keys back to you, assuming you give accurate contact information.

• Turn it in to the Police Department or MU Games Area Desk

2009-10-02: Lost Spanish Al Corriente text book. It's used an written in in black pen (not by me). If found please call 626-622-7165. Thanks!

2009-09-07: Lost orange Olympus FE-3010 digital camera along with about 1000 photos from Europe. I was at CVS (Long's by Nugget), Nugget (Covell), and Strings that day. If found call 707-631-7633

2009-09-01: Lost a car key on the walking path or the soccer fields near Northstar Pond.
It is a VW key, black and folds closed. If found please call 520-219-9774

2009-05-17: lost my cell phone near the Regal Holiday 6 at First and F streets around 1am last night
it looks like this:
please call 408 410 1138 or email stephinary@gmail.com with information

2009-04-22: Lost/Stolen Digital camera Canon Powershot G10 at the Farmer's Market. Please call 530-3043110

2009-04-07: Lost black jansport backpack. I think i might have left it around sci lec 123, but I'm not sure when it went missing exactly. If you have it please let me know!!! Email me at gdu@ucdavis.edu or call me at 925-858-8652

2009-02-08: Lost/Stolen Black Dakine Backpack at Chipotle Restaurant Downtown Davis!!!

Included:
Hp Laptop
Palm Pilot
Textbooks
School Supplies
My Life

If you know the where abouts of this backpack or any information please e-mail nicholasvaldivia@yahoo.com or call
Nick: (530)554-7335
I'm a POOR college student who can't afford to have these belongings gone!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!

2009-01-03: LOST: black cd case full of children's original Disney movies. Probably fell off the roof of the car in the Davis Co-op parking lot in the evening of Friday, Jan 2, or somewhere on G street nearby. If found, please contact cthorman@pobox.com. Thanks!

Found 2008-12-11: Mountain bike at the corner of Cowell and Drew. Yours? email me at kat1628@hotmail.com and describe it. Looks like there may have been an accident and the bike was left behind. Or it was stolen and dumped.

Found 2009-10-4: Wool Cap at corner of Pine and Harvard. Leave a comment on my page with a description and I'll arrange to have it returned. scottmorgan