http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So what happens to all the lost and found items at an airport? All the luggage, iPods and video games? Does it fall into some mysterious, invisible black hole, along with all the world’s lost socks? Well, at the Miami International Airport, all those lost and found items go up for ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/airport-lost-and-found-items-auctioned/ Chip McGee of Murfreesboro, Tennessee lost his red Siberian husky, Ginger, in December. She dug under the fence, escaped and became a lost dog. But not for long. Chip and his wife Karen searched for their lost dog and filed a report with the local sheriff’s department. Just 10 days later, ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/lost-dog-leads-to-lawsuit/ A lost dog tag from World War II was found at the bottom of a public park pond in Ipswich in the UK. And it led to a transatlantic search for what turned out to be an American serviceman. The lost dog tag belonged to Edward H. Cunningham of Westville in ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/lost-dog-tag-leads-to-search-for-serviceman/ You should think twice before you start distributing posters of that lost dog you found! Why? Because some unscrupulous individuals must just falsely claim that the lost dog is theirs -- then turn right around and sell it to an animal testing center. If you tack up posters of a lost ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/don%e2%80%99t-distribute-posters-of-lost-dogs/ A walker. A film from a brain scan. A pair of dentures. It’s amazing what turns up in the San Diego County Fair Lost and Found! Workers in Guest Services, which operates the lost and found, are downright perplexed about some items that show up. Take the walker, for example: How ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/strange-items-in-county-fair-lost-and-found/ They say bloodhounds have the strongest sense of smell. And a trusty bloodhound named Lincoln proved that to be true when he helped find a lost dog named Bandit near Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Bandit is a 16-year-old black lab who belongs to local Deputy Sheriff Bob McFetridge. Every morning, Bandit takes ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/bloodhound-follows-nose-to-lost-dog/ One lost dog is in Maryland, and the other is in Virginia. The lost dog in Maryland is a Yorkshire terrier named Reilly who disappeared from a hotel in White Marsh near Baltimore on Monday, July 23. Reilly’s owners are bound and determined to find their beloved doggie. They’ve gone to great ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/search-for-two-lost-dogs-continues/ In Sydney, Australia, a lost dog was found 2,000 miles from home! Rusty, an eight-year-old Maltese-poodle mix, disappeared in May while his owner Shirley Lowry was in a shop in Woy Woy, which is about 25 miles north of Sydney. Shirley publicized her lost dog in the local media. And fortunately, ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/2000-miles-and-dognappers-wild-lost-dog-stories/ If a forest researcher gets lost in the woods and yells for help but nobody’s there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Well, the answer doesn’t matter; all that matters is that the researcher was lost, and found. U.S. Forest Service researcher John Capuano became lost in the ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/forest-researcher-lost-and-found/ No, it wasn’t a leggy brunette in a red dress that had traffic in a tangle in Downer’s Grove, Illinois--it was a lost dog! About half a dozen pedestrians worked together for nearly half an hour on Friday, July 13 to lead a lost dog wandering along Ogden Avenue to safety. ... http://www.thefoundbin.com/blog/total-traffic-stopper-lost-dog-that-is/