It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen filling in for Brian today.

Now we're going to change gears and end today's show with your lost and found calls.

The MTA Inspector General's office just published the results of an undercover

investigation into the system's lost property unit. Last year, the office handed out over 24

lost items across subway stations and buses to MTA employees to test whether the objects

could be retrieved.

The results?

Only one out of the 24 items made it back to the Inspector General's office, a keychain with an address on it.

20 of the items were never even logged in the Lost and Found database, suggesting misconduct

within the ranks of the MTA's personnel.

All this is to say, if you've ever retrieved something you lost on the bus or train, you are very lucky.

So listeners, we want to hear your local lost and found stories.

Have you ever left something on the subway, bus, or other public transport vehicles and actually gotten it back?

Did you go through the MTA's lost and found service? How long did it take to get your item back?

Give us a call. 212-433 WNYC. That's 212-433-9692. You know, often it's other New Yorkers who step up and take matters into their own hands

when an item is lost. They're the ones who call a recently dialed number when you forget your

phone on the bus or send your wallet back to the address on your ID card, drop it off at a police

precinct. Who needs a lost and found when you've got neighbors as good as these?

But jokes aside, if you ever have gone out of your way to return a valuable item to its rightful

owner, first of all, thank you very much, but we want to hear from you.

Listeners, do you have a miraculous story of retrieving a personal item you never thought you'd

see again thanks to a good Samaritan?

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