The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System 

"hmmm maybe a little too talented"

Just to let you know, I got your thing. No returns though, finders keepers or whatever

Maybe they lost their phone on the subway 😂

​@@stevenb891 lmfao 🤣

Lets make up a story about what happened to them. Because "Amy" didn't reply until a few hours later, during that time, the person who found the journal got arrested for stealing the journal, the journal is now locked up in evidence, and the finder is locked up in jail for 5 years because they can't afford bail and the prosecution is really slow to take a case to court.

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@@izznazhanzur I don't see anything wrong here

@@izznazhanzur If this is a bot responding to a bot then it has my begrudging respect for being actually interesting. If it's not, then what a power move.

@@ShaunCheah If it were a bot, that would make it even more of a power move. Try writing a bot that successfully identifies posts by other bots just to make fun of them.

What's an MVP?

😂

Half a Saxophone is the jazz podcast Sam will launch next

I only feel half as sorry for them though as the person who lost a whole saxophone

I can imagine that half a lost saxophone would still count as a full saxophone to the lost and found workers

@@hamza-chaudhry Nah, losing half is worse the remaining half is a constant reminder of your failure

Works also for stationary, calculators, books etc if you go ask in college labs. You wont believe the amount of people who leave everything when leaving

@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken what is a stationary?

​@@strateeg32Not sure if you're aware and just asking a rhetorical question, but he meant stationery (not "stationary"), which is writing and other office materials.

@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou No it was real question. I did not understand it

@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Thank you for your answer and also for explaining what stationery is.

This is actually a fair point, Sam.

They did that with the 1 that the new Yorker returned to them

This is going to be in a video where Sam roasts you one day

I feel like finding lost items is probably a critical part of the lost and found system. They are supposed to be cleaned at the end points during which those journals should've entered the system.

Look at the big brain on Brad! 🤣👌

You've just lost the wrong 50,891 phones, sorry man.

Shit, my bad

Hahahahah

hey baldbozo i found your 50k cellphones on the 1 line headed to the bronx right now if you want them back

@Nate Wolf sweet man. I'm in hunts point, can you bring them by tonight. Sometime after dark. I've got a big reward for you!

I ran money through an airport and this woman rapidly approached me and the police officers that were escorting me to complain about this suspicious backpack she found left unattended in the bathroom. So apparently she was worried it may be a bomb and decided to take it and bring it to the police herself. So naturally they brushed her off, took the bag, and asked me if I was cool with taking a slight detour to lost and found once we hit the first floor. We get there, and there's this other really nice woman who was waiting by the lost and found ecstatic that we had her bag. I'm imagining a world where 30 seconds after leaving the bathroom she realized what she did and went back to get it only to have it stolen by the crazy old lady. Either way, turns out their lost and found system is pretty decent all things considered, even if the old lady thought it was a bomb. Imagine thinking that and then taking possession of it LOL.

But does it work on wallets ?

That's amazing. I lost my passport in Zurich airport once and had to travel all the way around the airport twice to find it (The people at security recognised me on my second time through and comforted me while I cried from stress lol)

@@violet7773 wow !? How long it took it to find ?

Soon enough, he's going to be publishing papers in journals about things that are mildly worth making a six-minute video about.

Well, if you had done the math, you would have realized there would be 114.5 lost saxophones this year. Then you could have had the discretion to not lose them in the first place.

@@OrangeC7 But if he hadn't lost them, then someone else would have. He was actually doing the world a favour

Sir, this is the New York City _public transit system._ Of _course_ we have more than one abandoned briefcase full of marital aids. Please follow me.

I'm betting it was a salesperson's case. In which case, imagine having to tell your boss that you lost your dicks on the subway.

I think the kind of person who loses a whole briefcase full of sex toys on the NYC subway then actually goes to claim them from lost & found would just take them even if they weren't the right ones.

​@John La Duke definitely not, you don't want someone else's used sex toys, that's gross

@@akariaTXreaper Well you're right, I _don't_ want them, and it sounds like _you_ wisely don't either. I just suspect that the person who goes to the subway lost & found seeking their sex toy briefcase is probably a lot less picky - and hygienic - than we are.

not sure if there’s any amount of money that would make me feel ok with going through a bureaucratic mess

Sam sounds like an intern.

How on earth did you fit that through the postal service?

@@mintcervida6372 You can just mail swords. Even if they're sharpened and totally ready to raid a Miami Chuck-e-Cheese. I've done it. (Posting a sword, not the chuck-e-cheese thing)

@@dabbinghitlersmemes1762 this is The comment of all time

@@dabbinghitlersmemes1762 I have done that twice now!

I'm more surprised that there are people who don't have a password on their phone

If it's an Android phone, press the "emergency" button on the lock screen, this will NOT call emergency services, but instead open a menu that can have medical info etc., Which if filled out can also have other people's phone number in it And if you call those numbers, make sure that you start off with "Hi, I found a phone and you were written as an contact" so that you don't scare their friends

YT won't let me edit my comment, so here's an correction: Pressing the emergency button will open a phone keypad, with an "emergency information" button above it, here's the previously mentioned Information

​@@MrHack4never There is a similar feature on the iPhone, press Emergency then Medical ID to access it.

What I do find annoying is people who come to pick up their lost phone but neither tip nor say "thank you" and kind of blame you for them losing their phone in the first place? (Shouldn't you at least be happy if you are reunited with your lost phone? So why are you angry? At me?)

Im gonna need some details on that first paragraph lmao

@@clethtinthiallor9179 yeah same bro like deadass 'and also i pointed a gun at him' like shit went 0 to 100 real quick

maybe instead of pointing at a gun. You could have just used some reason. Maybe something like why would I ever return a wallet if I stole it?????

@@TheChessRunnerlay off the booze

@@TheChessRunner​​⁠This comment just spews stupidity. You don’t think he tried reasoning with the hostile individual before pointing a gun at them?

Well, it's a fairly small sample size and a narrow slice of the types of items people tend to return, so while it makes for an interesting video the research is relatively weak evidence.

he's a keeper for doing through all this bs to help you.

@@Game_Hero He really is. I deal with chronic pain, and he’s also a champ about that too. He wants to help me do the things I can do, but he also steps in when he sees I could use some help. Tonight, for example, I had to get out of bed after three hours of trying to sleep due to pain, and he was barely awake, but he was suggesting getting up and drawing a bath for me, wanted to know if a heating pad would help, or if I needed to get up and move around. He’s just a stellar man and it shines through in all his actions. I’m a lucky lady. ☺️

True. They should have gotten bricked phones and lost them with custom art on the back panel in acrylic paint including the owner's name. That would have cost 8 dollars a phone, not much more expensive than a journal

Agreed most people dont care much about journals

@@RoundShades Didn't even need phones. Could have dropped just about anything even semi-important. Hell, most people won't turn in a phone (not counting drivers/operators) to a lost and found. A better option would have been to drop something like an ID card (i.e. a fake university ID or something) and track THAT

Someone brought up the biggest brain move that should’ve been obvious but simultaneously easy to not think of. Just give the attendants the item yourself saying you found this and it’s for lost and found, then later check up and see if you can retrieve it officially. It’s the only surefire way to test efficacy of the system itself and not the general trust of NYers which we all know is low ass hell and unpredictable

Wow what a impolite fucked up city, even in London that can be a bit selfish you'd find the tube workers hand in bits and bobs like that most of the time as it's just the respectful thing to do, where is the USAs manners?

Haha! Or 55/100ths.

I imagine many New Yorkers and most tourists don't even bother trying because they think it's hopeless. This stat could probably be much higher.

wonder if there'd be some ethical/legal problems with this to consider.

The production value is really going up I see!

I scrolled so far to find someone who noticed the social security cards! That’s so many for something people rarely carry around!!

Hard to know what someone's current address is

Japan's culture is very good about theft though from what I understand. it'd be interesting to test out leaving a high value item on public transit there and seeing how easy it would be to get back

@@silvaskiproductions3937 High value items are more likely to be returned all across the world. Of course, if they aren't, well, you have lost something of high value. But the chances of getting it back are better. It's all about feeling lucky, I suppose ...

Definitely more. Not just because it's more expensive, it's just that it's arguably the most important thing one owns. Meanwhile a random journal probably wouldn't even be given a second look before landing in a litter bag.

good luck finding it.