Do as you're told

Item: Parking Ticket.
Description: Plastic, paper.
Location: Turner Street.

Us English are law-abiding citizens (the policeman I posted about earlier was a one-off). So I’m fairly sure there’s a good reason for this being on the floor. I mean it even says the words ‘do not ignore’ on the front of it.

Travel Yellow Pages

Item: Yellow Pages.
Description: Tattered.
Location: Sidney Street.

Who carries a Yellow Pages around with them? I mean unlike the dictionary I found earlier, it doesn’t really slip into the pocket unnoticed does it?

CSI Manchester

Item: Ruler.
Description: 30cm, white.
Location: Major Street.

Was this ruler used by a forensic team to highlight the scale of a key piece of evidence? If so it needs to be claimed quickly because lives are on the line. I’d have returned it myself if it weren’t for all the pictures I have to take for this site.

Have a go hero

Item: Policewoman’s Hat.
Description: Black and white.
Location: Peter Street.

The owner of this hat was obviously caught drinking on duty and so had to make a sharp exit – leaving her hat behind. What kind of example is she setting? If I saw her in the act, I’d have carried out a citizen’s arrest.

Not newsworthy

Item: Medical glove.
Description: Rubber.
Location: King Street.

Yet another glove, but this time of the medical variety.
I did check the local paper the day after finding it, to see if a baby was delivered or open-heart surgery had taken place on King Street, but I couldn’t find anything. Just the story of a woman, who used her nose to roll a pea down the high street for charity.

Burning rubber

Item: Hubcap.
Description: Plastic.
Location: Oxford Road.
This must’ve flung off in a Fast and Furious style chase down Oxford Road in the early hours. But in the Manchester version, the race was probably between two overfilled Magic buses headed for Fallowfield.

Sauce rationing

Item: McDonald’s sauce tub.
Description: BBQ.
Location: Oxford Road.

If you’ve ever asked for some sauce at McDonalds you’ll know that they give you a tiny pot with hardly anything in. That’s why this one has definitely been lost, because there’s more than a good few good dips left.