Police in Canada have returned a bag to its rightful owner more than 40 years after it had apparently been stolen. The purse contained a school ID card.
"I’m thinking the purse had probably been stolen, and the thief had dumped it in the hole," Lori said, according to the RCMP's news release."Over the years, I probably just forgot about it."
A homeowner was apparently digging a fence post in his backyard and"noticed a very old and crumbly purse," according to police, who eventually found the rightful owner of the long-lost item."The discovery afforded both Lori and Theresa the opportunity to catch up and share a few laughs from a time in their life that had become nothing more than a distant memory," the RCMP wrote.
On April 13, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the discovery and return of a purse that contained a student identification card dated 1981-1982. The purse had apparently been buried in a homeowner's yard. Earlier this month, Lori, who currently lives in a community south of Nanaimo, a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, visited the RCMP department and received her
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