Okay, so I left my student ID in one of the computer labs because I was using it as a straight-edge. First off, I realize it was 100% my fault for leaving it there, so don't bitch at me for that to satisfy your e-penis growth impulses. What I don't understand is, not 10 minutes later I realized I had left it in there, I went back to check and it was GONE. Nowhere to be found. Nobody turned it in to lost and found all afternoon and I haven't gotten an email from a good samaritan saying "hey I found your ID."

Somebody, please, tell me why the fuck people like to hang on to other people's IDs for no fucking reason at all? What do you want my ID for? Do you want to stare at my surfer hair I had several years ago? Is that the deal? What does one person have to gain from simply collecting stupid fucking student IDs?

I'm not the only one this has happened to before. I can't count on both hands the number of people who have told me this same story. So here is what I have to say to you, you anonymous UMR student ID bandit: LEAVE IT THE FUCK THERE. Seriously people, where does this impulse come from to simply snatch all IDs you can find and hold onto indefinitely for your own unknown purposes? What is so hard about seeing something and just not touching it, unless you plan to directly get it to the rightful owner?

I don't care about the fucking student ID. It's the principle of the whole thing. Yes it's my fault for losing it, don't tell me that, and anyone who even bothers to flame this thread can simply be considered a douche bag. All I can say is this: to anyone who has ever let their student ID out of their sight for 10 minutes, never to see it again, I feel for you. I know what it's like to be struck by the UMR student ID bandit. I feel your pain. I don't know what this bandit is using them for but it surely can't be to do good. We must press on.

In closing I would like to repeat my point: if you see somebody's student ID lying out somewhere and you don't plan to toss it in lost and found or somehow get it back to the person, then for Christ's sake, leave it there. It's not that hard. Save yourself the trouble of putting it in your collection. Fucking student ID bandit.

Why don't you leave it lying out then watch for who takes it? Then you caught the bastard...

Well if I had an ID to do that with then I wouldn't have made this thread, now would I.

Aren't they really anal about the computer labs? I know of two for sure that has cameras crawling all over them. If you really wanted to, I wonder if you could see the video (though that really wouldn't help you much to identify the bandit)?

Often someone picks it up and gives it to a secretary, who after a few days will send it to Laura in New Student Programs, who will email you. It seems that the secretaries are so desperately busy, they can't be bothered to open outlook, click new, click to, and type in your last name and a 2 second message....

Well, I don't think the cashiers at Chartwells or the bookstore have ever compared my picture to me, so someone could be using it to buy shit. You may want to check your student account in JoeSS and make sure no one's charging anything.

Thanks for all your advice everyone. Those are good ideas. I will follow up on all that stuff.

well i lost mine for sure once, and it turned up several days later in the TJ cafeteria (trust me - it wasn't there before). apparently somebody just left it there after i got a new ID and the old one wouldn't swipe anymore.

and a side note - i don't know what the fuck is up with people at Havener not accepting student numbers if there is no line. they say its because they want to verify my picture, but some friends and i actually switched IDs once (we look nothing alike), and they said nothing, so i don't buy that "we need to see the picture" bullshit because they don't actually look. why go through the trouble to memorize someone else's 8 digit ID# when they can often be had sitting out in the TJ cafeteria, among plenty of other places. Plus - it comes up with the name of the person on the Food Court computer systems - i have my drivers license, just forget my ID sometimes because i take it out of my wallet for one reason or another.

If they did allow that and someone memorized another number they would be liable. At least now they can claim that they check IDs.

if i stole Jeff's ID and used it without them noticing (trust me - they wouldn't notice) Jeff could hold them liable. Besides - the Secretary in the food services office in 104 norwood is really nice. when my id was stolen i just went and talked to her and she set everything straight.

now if they actully enforce their "we check pictures" policy i'd be okay with that, but if i provide my student number AND another form of picture identification (such as a drivers license) i don't see why that should be a problem. I think its just because they're too damn lazy to type in the number.

Sorry, I missed the part about secondary ID.

have you checked with UMR PD? Whenever guards or officers find something like that, they are supposed to pick it up and turn it in at the station. Though they are pretty good about e-mailing people who's name is on something like student ids or wallets.

On a side note, too bad I didn't get your id first. It would've put the finishing touches on my shrine to you. *sigh* I guess someone else's shrine will be better now.

Someone might have turned it in to the ID office...I don't know if you checked there or not. When I lost mine, I went to get a new one months later and they had supposedly sent me an email saying they had it-if they did, I never received the email.

Same here. I gave my roommate, who is about a foot taller then I and wears glasses my ID, they took it without question.