Astonishing. I've never had a desire to keep something that belonged to someone else.
No name or number in it, fine. Find it in the trashcan or at the city dump, safely assume the owner no longer wanted it.
I've spent an hour swimming in water looking for my disc, only to find it next time I went swimming. Hardly abandoned. I've thrown discs in water or briars and intended to come back after the round, or the next day. Hardly abandoned. I've found discs and called the owner---who was still on the course, clearly not abandoned! I've had discs returned to me that were found at a course I didn't lose them; someone had found them, played with them, lost them somewhere else. How can you know how it came to be there, without calling the owner?
As I was typing this, someone walked in my office and handed me a disc I lost on a course 100 miles away, almost 2 years ago. Karma! I've got another disc on a course right now, 100 miles away, that they found and called me about; I've made arrangements for a friend to pick up and bring to me next time I see him.
You don't have to go to great effort. Just call the owner, tell him you've got it and where you are. He can make the effort to get it if he wants. He can offer a reward, if he wants. He can tell you to keep it, which frequently happens. You've done the honorable thing.
I'll misquote Mark Twain here, but it's close enough:
Always do right. This will please some people, and astonish the rest.
No name or number in it, fine. Find it in the trashcan or at the city dump, safely assume the owner no longer wanted it.
I've spent an hour swimming in water looking for my disc, only to find it next time I went swimming. Hardly abandoned. I've thrown discs in water or briars and intended to come back after the round, or the next day. Hardly abandoned. I've found discs and called the owner---who was still on the course, clearly not abandoned! I've had discs returned to me that were found at a course I didn't lose them; someone had found them, played with them, lost them somewhere else. How can you know how it came to be there, without calling the owner?
As I was typing this, someone walked in my office and handed me a disc I lost on a course 100 miles away, almost 2 years ago. Karma! I've got another disc on a course right now, 100 miles away, that they found and called me about; I've made arrangements for a friend to pick up and bring to me next time I see him.
You don't have to go to great effort. Just call the owner, tell him you've got it and where you are. He can make the effort to get it if he wants. He can offer a reward, if he wants. He can tell you to keep it, which frequently happens. You've done the honorable thing.
I'll misquote Mark Twain here, but it's close enough:
Always do right. This will please some people, and astonish the rest.