Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
Found a purse once. Picked it up and called the lady when I got home (didn't have a cell phone back then.) She stopped by my house and gratefully reclaimed it. Turns out she had set it on the roof of her car while she was loading her groceries, then drove off and forgot it was up there. The funny thing is I found it over a mile away from the grocery store.
I did the exact same thing with a Canon F-1 years ago. Fortunately, the car had a vinyl top so it stayed put, even as I was driving up a curved freeway entrance ramp.
Also fortunately, someone in another car yelled and pointed it out to me so I was able to pull over and retrieve it unharmed...