A service station just outside Antigonish, N.S, is trying to reunite a lost iPod Touch with its rightful owner.
Manager Matthew Overmars says he recently found the misplaced device in the washroom at Henry’s Service Centre in Lower South River.
“It’s an Apple iPod Touch, the new generation, so it’s fairly expensive,” says Overmars.
“I kinda let it sit on the counter for a few days before I decided, well, I might as well try to charge it up and see if we can get some information out of it, to get it back to its rightful owner.”
However, the device had a lock code, preventing Overmars from garnering any information.
He says it would be wrong to try to guess the code, and after a few wrong attempts, the iPod would lock up and even the owner wouldn’t be able to open it.
Instead, Overmars has posted a picture of the device on the gas station’s Facebook page in the hopes the post will receive a lot of traffic.
“With the unlock code there, I figured somebody can just phone in, we can plug the unlock code in to verify that it does belong to them and get an address and mail it off to them,” he says.
In 2013, a Moncton woman lost her high-end camera in the parking lot of the same gas station. Overmars posted photos from the camera online and the result was swift and positive.
“It worked, yeah, very quickly,” says he says. “That’s why I figured, well, it worked for that and it’ll work for this.”
The Facebook post has already been seen by more than 10,000 people but Overmars has yet to hear from the iPod’s owner.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Dan MacIntosh
