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Author Topic: Strange Lost and Found Items Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 01-07-2008 04:07 PM                     Most random thing we've found is a map of Germany printed on crushed velvet. I don't know where one would get such an item, why one would need it, or how one would forget in in a movie theater, but there it was.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-07-2008 05:04 PM                        We find a variety of items almost every weekend, everything from shoes (Hey.. no Tennessee shoeless people jokes!!), cell phones, shirts, socks, lawn chairs (my favorite), flash lights, assorted car parts, toys and action figures (my boys love those!), cigarette lighters (we have a popcorn bucket full of lighters now), bungy cords, cargo nets, golf balls (have a bucket of those too - seems someone can't read the No Tresspassing signs), and the list could go on. We generally don't keep the shoes unless it's a matched pair. The clothing and underwear get tossed in the dumpster. With the cell phones we try to scroll thru their stored contact list and see if they have a contact for HOME, and we'll try to call them from their phone and let them know we found it. Phones that have been crushed by cars get tossed. Every lawn chair we have at the theatre for the employees to use have been "donated" by the last 3 1/2 years of customers. Flashlights, bungy cords, and cargo nets all end up in my truck. Any money that's found goes to the person who picks it up. The most I've ever found was a $5 dollar bill that ended up as 2 - 2 1/2 dollar bills while I was mowing the grass! The best find for the 2007 drive-in season was the pillow case left on the grass on Screen 2. I found it while cleaning the lot that night, and inside I found assorted girls clothes (t-shirt, underwear, bra, etc... and the best... a fully charged Nintendo DS gaming system with a Mario Karts game cartridge , all in a neat little zippered case. I held it in the office for 3 weeks, but no one ever called or showed up to claim it. My boys love that thing!  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-07-2008 05:18 PM                     quote: The most I've ever found was a $5 dollar bill that ended up as 2 - 2 1/2 dollar bills while I was mowing the grass! Ha. The most I found was $100. I turned it in to the manager on duty and about a month later I got it.  |  IP: Logged Kelly Skaggs Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Springdale UT Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-07-2008 05:57 PM                        Watch out when checking purses for IDs. About a dozen years ago an assistant manager open a purse to check for a ID and almost stuck her hand in a pair of mens underwear, that was full of crap . I am not kidding on this one.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 01-07-2008 06:40 PM                    while cleaning the womens toilets at the end of the night i found a HUGE stash of gin, vodka and bacardi 'travel-size' bottles hidden behind the pipework.... just caught the edge of a label in the corner of my eye and in the end we uncovered about 50! of the things. all empty!  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-07-2008 06:44 PM                     quote: Watch out when checking purses for IDs. About a dozen years ago an assistant manager open a purse to check for a ID and almost stuck her hand in a pair of mens underwear, that was full of crap [bs] . I am not kidding on this one. Once had a guy exit a movie and say "One of the stalls in the men's room needs to be looked at." I go in there and see that the toilet is clogged with a huge pair of athletic underwear. I get a rubber glove and chunks of fall out. Apparently someone (likely the guy who mentioned the problem) crapped his pants and tried to flush the evidence.  |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-10-2008 03:20 AM                        I kid you not but i used to work at the wedgewood cinema in texas and one day before shutting down the theater for good i was cleaning up the booth and i always wanted to see what was up in this room that nobody had keys to and for the time ive been there and had new managers nobody has ever open the door so i figured well im not going to get in trouble so screw it i have to know whats in the room so i went home got some tools to crack it open and what i found was some old popcorn bags and old signs of the theaters named before it and then in this small little closet i found and old box with reels to DEBBIE DOES DALLAS and BLAZING SADDLES now im not sure what they are worth but im happy i own the movies. oh and old old posters for movies like starwars and superman and some other stuff ive never heard of but its all mine now.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-10-2008 05:46 PM                       Someone's little brother.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-10-2008 06:05 PM                     When I was working at a Drive-In for the first 5 years in the industry, I used to also do everything at this place, including yard cleanup. and finding money on the yard grounds and along the fenceline was quite the treat ... like finding $400.00 in one week from blown away money from a windy night before.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Kara J. McVay Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Delaware, OH Registered: May 2002 posted 01-10-2008 08:01 PM                        It was back in 1990 with the release of "Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles" We sold out the first 4 shows at 320 people per show and over 200 for the 5th. So needless to say it took a very long time to clean. We started cleaning from the back of the theatre about 11:30 and reached the front row around Midnight, just picking all the crap up off the floor. When we got to the front row, I kid you not, there was a 4 year old boy sound asleep in the front row. The police were called and arrived very promptly, to find a "mother" sitting out front of our totally DARK theatre in her car just waiting on the child. I am sure CPS showed up at her house the next day.  |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-11-2008 02:07 AM                        whooaaa thats missed up ok you won this one  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-11-2008 08:09 PM                     quote: while cleaning the womens toilets at the end of the night i found a HUGE stash of gin, vodka and bacardi 'travel-size' bottles hidden behind the pipework.... just caught the edge of a label in the corner of my eye and in the end we uncovered about 50! of the things. all empty! Just an idea, but have you suspected they may belong to the cleaners?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-12-2008 05:32 PM                        Maybe a flight attendant just cleaned out her purse?? Louis  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-12-2008 09:33 PM                     See this thread.  |  IP: Logged

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