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Canoe believe it?
You learn things you never thought you needed to know by reading Backbytes. Last week we asked you for tales of what you have left on public transport. ‘I recently worked on Transport for London’s (TfL’s) “Sherlock” project, which is the database that manages TfL’s lost property office in Baker Street,’ says Richard Steele, at Basemap. ‘There is a huge amount of cash left every day on buses, tubes
and cabs. The biggest single amount I saw was £10,000 left in a cab. There was also a record that someone found and handed in a lost child.’ This, however, is less surprising to us than his other discovery. ‘Sifting through the data one day, I came across a record stating that someone had left a canoe on a London bus,’ he says. This raises so many questions. How do you get a canoe on a bus? How much is the fare? Once it’s on, how do you forget it? Does the canoe’s owner read Backbytes? If so, let us know. More left-on-public-transport stories please.
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