QUOTE (Hugh Saskin @ Jun 5 2009, 04:34 PM)
Notice how nobody ever seems to hand stuff back without going to the media first? Years ago, at the height of the Northern Ireland troubles, a briefcase was left on a train at a London terminus and handed in to rail staff, who took one look at the correspondence and saw several letters from the Northern Ireland Office marked as secret and confidential. They did no more than call the police who soon reunited the very embarrassed owner with his property after giving him 'suitable advice'. No news story there....
If people went straight to the police, and not the press, then it would be all hushed up. We've got to expose this sort of incompetence.