Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Items lost on L.A. buses include mother's ashes, prosthetic leg

This reminds me of Jim Rome. I don't know if any of you listen to his show, but there was a running joke on there about a guy that got his prosthetic leg stolen, not once, but twice. He did several parodies on the thief such as trying to sell the leg in a gas station parking lot like someone would sell a stolen watch. Funny stuff.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than one million people a day ride Los Angeles' trains, buses and subways, and as diverse as they are, so are the items they leave behind - everything from cellphones and wallets to a prosthetic leg and a human jaw bone.

The items will sometimes end up at a two-room, lost-and-found operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that is set to reopen Wednesday following a US$137,000 renovation.

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