A Chainsaw, Harry Styles Concert Ticket & More Weird Shit People Have Left In Ubers This Year

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I’ve left a few things in Ubers during my time — phone, earrings, vomit — but Uber’s Lost & Found index has arrived to make me feel like the most basic of all bitches, with these backseat bandits forgetting some seriously weird shit.

Like how do you forget something that is the same size as yourself? I will never know.

You ready? Neither, but here goes.

The weirdest things people have left in the back of Ubers:

  1. A girl’s number on a piece of paper who “might be the love of my life”
  2. Wedding dress
  3. Adult toys
  4. Rabbit’s medication
  5. Harry Styles concert ticket
  6. Olympic gold medal
  7. Taxidermy cat
  8. Segway scooter
  9. A painting of Marilyn Monroe
  10. Harry Potter wand
  11. Nduja (sausage paste)
  12. False teeth
  13. Cockpit trainer poster
  14. Wedding band
  15. Cattle whip
  16. Chainsaw
  17. A lectern
  18. Number plates
  19. Birth certificate
  20. Tray of lasagne
  21. DJ decks
  22. Hair extensions
  23. Jock strap
  24. Robotic pool cleaner
  25. Leather bunny ears

I want to be friends with so many of the people these things belonged to. As for the person forgetting a dildo — I just have questions. Where were you going? When did you realise? Did it ultimately ruin how you saw your night or self-care ritual playing out?

I digress. The index also found the most commonly left behind items, which included: clothing, phones, wallets, jewellery, makeup. Makes sense. As for the most and least forgetful cities? Brisbane was the most organised and left behind the least amount of things, while Perth was losing shit left, right and centre.

I’m not sure if everyone knows this considering people are leaving such mammoth objects behind, but you can retrieve items if you leave them in the back of an Uber (unless it’s vomit, which you will be paying a cleaning fee for — or so I’ve heard).

Go into the Uber app, and then your trips, selecting the ride where you left something behind. You can then tap “find lost item” and “contact driver about lost item”.

Good luck and don’t forget your brain next time you get to your destination.

Chantelle Schmidt is a freelance writer. You can follow her on Instagram or TikTok.

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