Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
You mean you've never seen anybody get off the plane with two handfuls of stuff, stop at a seat, rearrange the stuff and forget or drop something? I used to travel with somebody who did that every time. If you saw a cell phone sitting on a seat, would you assume it was abandoned?
If I saw something that wasn't clearly disposable (disposable in my view: newspaper, coffee cup, half candy bar or similar) I would assume it to be lost or forgotten, not abandoned.
Fair enough.
I think, correct me if I am wrong, we agree that something truly "abandoned" and without a secondary owner (secondary owner = situation like the airline reclaiming an unused kit after primary owner leaves) is up for grabs.
If that's true, we're only debating when it can be known that something is truly "abandoned" and whether it has a secondary owner.