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SCOTTISH GENEROSITY

Canadian traveller gets help and his wallet back

SCOTTISH GENEROSITY: Canadian traveller gets help and his wallet back

20 MAR 2012: Canadian Art student Ryan Butt was on holiday in Scotland when he lost his wallet.  Stranded in Fort Augustus without a penny, Butt was concerned that he would be unable to get to London for his flight home a few days later.


He was surprised when generous locals and fellow tourists gave him enough cash to make the journey, and stunned when Stagecoach travel assistant Stacey Robertson, phoned to tell him the wallet had been found by bus driver John Dickson

Days after his return to the city of Corner Brook in Newfoundland, the wallet, complete with credit cards and £100 ($157.50) cash arrived in the post.

Ryan had arrived by bus at Morag’s Lodge hostel at Fort Augustus near Loch Ness.

When he realized he had lost his wallet he said, “I panicked. All my money and credit and debit cards were in it.”

He spoke to Robertson in Inverness who called the police. Butt was on a train to London’s Gatwick Airport when she phoned to tell him the driver had checked the bus and found it.

Scott Armstrong, of VisitScotland, said: “This is a fantastic example of how the warmth and honesty of the people of the Highlands make it a wonderful place to holiday.”

Butt was thrilled.  He told the CBC, that he was “astonished how everyone helped so much, especially Stacey.

“You hear so many horror stories of people travelling and never getting back lost possessions but to get it back from another country is wonderful. I couldn’t believe their kindness.”



Above  Image:  Stagecoach travel assistant Stacey Robertson

3 comments

  • Comment Link Stephen Fountaine Tuesday, 20 March 2012 10:32 posted by Stephen Fountaine

    Yes it is wonderful when things like this happen. In June 2009 I was I attended ATE in Melbourne (thank you again Tourism Australia) and I dropped my blackberry under my seat on the Qantas 747. Having settled in for the night I decided not to pick it up till the morning, which I forgot to do. It was not handed in to lost & found so I gave up on it. 2 months later my blackberry arrived at my home address. J.C. Fournier from Como NSW, a Qantas airline mechanic found my phone and as he did not know how long it had been there he mailed it to me at his expense rather than put it into lost and found. There are great people in the world and Qantas employs one of them. I continue to have my name and address clearly visible on my phone and laptop. Thanks again J.C.

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  • Comment Link teresa maceroni Tuesday, 20 March 2012 10:19 posted by teresa maceroni

    i am a travel agent and so happy to hear about such utter kindness from the heart of the scottish citizens how wonderful to hear nice news teresa windor ontario

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  • Comment Link Tom Douglas Tuesday, 20 March 2012 09:20 posted by Tom Douglas

    My wife and I were pleasantly surprised at the honesty of Londoners a few years ago. We were at Victoria Station on our way to Dover and across the Channel to France. When I didn't have enough English money to pay for the tickets, my wife reached into her purse for the required pounds. Unnoticed by both of us, her passport got pulled out with the currency and landed on the ticket office floor. It wasn't until we got to Dover that we discovered the loss. We had no choice but to buy a return ticket to London where we expected we would have to go to the Canadian High Commission to get a replacement passport. On a whim, I checked at the Lost and Found at Victoria Station and learned to our delight and amazement that some kind soul had turned in the document - when we had suspected that by then it would have been sold for big bucks on the black market.

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