Have you ever lost anything on a train?

Question

Here in the UK over the past eight months, there have been numerous cases of important information being lost on trains, in McDonalds, in delivery vans, and stolen from parked cars. Most of this information is highly sensitive.

So, would you lose anything on a train, or suchlike public place?

Answer 1

Lost my cherry in train bog, does that count?

Answer 2

Dear Oracle,

The above two answers make me wonder if these are complimentary posts !!!

I typically drive a car ,even if the journey is ~100 miles. For longer distances I take flights. (the pubic transport in USA isn't as good as Europe). However, in public places I typically tend to loose my umbrella if I happen to be using one.

Rehman

EDIT:

I have lost the following:

My sling bag (I don't know when it fell from my coat)

My wallet which I managed to retrieve

My dear father--- when I was a kid--- I rediscovered him when I came back home.

Hotel keys, don't know how many times I have lost these

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I tend to loose things very often at work as well (another public place)

I have often lost my stethoscope

my writing pad

EDIT: I have lost pens on countless occassions, but, acquired many more unknowingly!!

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I have been told by many afflicted individuals that I frequently loose the most important thing:

Myself

But, I assure you I don't qualify as a "Walter Mitty", or the "Baron Munchausen"

Rehman

Answer 3

If my job depended on it....Not a chance

Answer 4

My wife lost her virginity on a train. I know that for a fact because I was there. HAHA LOL ROTL LMFAO. And I lost my lunch once on a rough section of track.

Answer 5

Just my will to live when there was a massive hold-up for a few HOURS

Other than that, no

Answer 6

My virginity.

Answer 7

" lol cant say i have , i like to keep important things under lock and key , now where did i leave my keys ???"

Answer 8

I did  loose some documents pertaining to security threats in the middle east last week. I don't know where they can have got to.

Answer 9

lol. not really, but i've lost my wallet in a taxi. it fell out of my pocket. but it's fine. only had about $100 worth

Answer 10

I have never lost anything on a train or any other place. I am very careful with my things, and check where I am sitting when I get up to leave. :)

Answer 11

Not yet luckily

Answer 12

Yeah my Nine West Pink Handbag: with my cell phone, money, credit card etc in it =( *sniff* *sniff* at a stupid perfume store !! NEVER WENT THERE AGAIN !!

Answer 13

yeah ...my mind when we were delayed for 4 hours (stuck midtrack in summer heat!)

Answer 14

MY MOBILE PHONE

Answer 15

No, I've never been on a train.

Answer 16

No!!

Answer 17

Most of what is found is best described as 'planted intelligence'.  I'm not sure who or why this is done but it may have something to do with how SiS operate, sometimes in open opposition to Government.

If you want more funds for something, one sure fire way of getting them is to hype up the terror threat - which is real anyway and governments know it.

We may think that as taxpayers we have some control over the activities of our intelligence services via the UK.gov, but I don't think so.

My own taken on it is that SiS (Mi5/6 whoever) pretty well operate as they please and what we're really dealing with is an organisation far too complex for anyone single person to know about or even begin to understand.

Secrecy is the operative word - if things were not going according to plan and you were 'M' would you tell the UK.gov?  No and you would probably also arrange for a bag of their docs to suddenly appear lost on a tube train late at night here in London to be 'found' by another 'operative' who then hands the bag of goodies over to the BBC. etc.

News Flash - Stop Secret Docs found on tube.  Blah etc.  Embarrasing for the UK.gov but who cares. . . .?

Answer 18

yes i have done

Answer 19

before my parents lost me on a train!

It was about 10 years ago

we were getting off, my mum was leaving 1st

but then the doors closed before I got through

I got off at the next stop and it took my mum 2 hours to get there by bus after me

I'd never been so scared before