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Gardai reveal lost and found’s weirdest items
THESE are some of the most unusual things being held by gardai who are looking to trace the original owners.
Thousands of items both lost and stolen are being kept in storage by the force who have been keeping them safe in case anybody comes to claim them.
As you imagine, the majority of space is taken up by bikes, phones, power tools, and jewellery – but we’ve done some digging and picked out some of the stranger things to be left sitting in stations.
The photos have all come from the Garda flickr account, which was set up to help reunite owners with their missing treasures.
But you might be running out of time as any lost and found items that go unclaimed for more than a year are sold at auction with profits going to the State via the Central Exchequer.
While such items will go under the hammer, others recovered as part of investigations into thefts can be held for longer.
So here’s some of the weird and most wonderful from the piles.
These wonderful brass ornaments would look good classy on the bonnet of a car, or equally atop the mantelpiece.
We’d like to think that this was flying somewhere it shouldn’t have been and a giant magnet was used to catch it.
Quite ironic that whatever was in it wasn’t safe in the end wonder if anything is still inside? Malahide gardai are looking for the owner of this lovely old-fashioned timepiece. They look like they’ll go to dust if opened. Possibly used on set of Raiders of the Lost Ark... Some lovely gems still inside this bright pink box.
Not seized in Swords, Coolock gardai are looking for some Samurais to come and claim them.
The head, being held in Shankill, appears quite old and could possibly be made from ivory.
This guy has been held for four years despite not being charged with anything.