Found a Blackberry Bold on Heuwaage, Basel early hours of Thursday 24th February. Its completely blocked but otherwise looks fine.

how much do you want for it?

Shame you can't see any numbers, otherwise search for " home " or "dad " and let them know you have it..some people are lost without their phones and love to have it back..fairplay for posting it..

Is this something that can be handed in to the Police here?

They prefer IPhones

Okay, they can hand it in to me then, I prefer BlackBerries.

My bets are on it coming from someone in Paddys: drop it into them

I would bring the phone to the Lost & Found office of the Police/City of Basel. That's where I would go in case I would lose something, plus I was told by the Lost & Found Office in Zurich (when my daughter lost her Blackberry) that they can trace the owner by the Serial number of the phone.

Just took a look at the website for "lost and found" in Basel and learned something new: according to the website of the Fundburo, Basel, when one finds something that has a value of more than CHF 10, one is legally obliged to bring it to the Fundburo.

http://www.bs.ch/verloren

"Pfichten der Finderin oder des Finders: Bei einem Fund sind Sie von Gesetzes wegen verpflichtet, den Fundgegenstand beim nächsten Polizeiposten abzugeben, wenn der Wert offenbar 10 Franken übersteigt. Sie können den Fundgegenstand aber auch direkt dem zuständigen Fundbüro (siehe oben) abgeben".

@jobby - Have there been any developments?

@tkn - Now don't you go derailing this serious thread now!