📝 AITAH for trying to return a lost ID

By Scepafall • Score: 1 • April 20, 2025 6:42 PM


I was walking around my college campus when I had found someone’s student ID on the ground. It was clear someone had lost it. I thought about walking away but then I thought about how this person must be worried that she lost it and things on campus get stolen a lot of the time. If this person was a freshman then that would mean she would be reliant on the card to get food. I decided to pick it up and I wanted to get this card to her as soon as possible. I tried looking online for anywhere I could drop it off but nothing came up. I thought about calling the police to give it to them but I didn’t want to call 911 for something that technically wasn’t an emergency. I have found people’s lost phones on campus in the past and would post it on my school’s Reddit account so I figured that would be the best thing to do in case someone knows this person. I also asked if not is there somewhere I can drop it off. For context the student ID had the person’s name and picture. There was no address on it. Within five minutes I had tons of angry comments telling me what did this person do to you and that I was a doxxer. Multiple people had reported my Reddit account and now my account is at risk of a permanent ban. Things like this makes me not want to help people anymore

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