this is such a bizarre thing, to get the wallet back, but it being a diff wallet but all the right things inside.
been trying to think of theories, but they are all flawed

my wallet here in bangladesh: its been reduced to only my insurance card, my photo ID, and cash. Debit card stays locked at home because nowhere even takes credit cards, so why bring it out.

all right, my best theory: separation of work! the police got several wallets at once returned to them. each was labeled with where it was found. they then emptied them all out and placed each wallets’ contents in separate evidence bags. wallets were placed in different evidence bags labeled with where they were found. meanwhile, the contents were sent to a different office where they determined whose contents it was (even if it was as easy as reading the license.) well once they determined whose stuff it was, they sent it back to the office who was holding onto the physical wallets.
well here’s where the story gets sticky (read: forced) the police had forgot to label which wallet was supposed to go with which contents. they had emptied them quickly and sent them off without matching up tags on both the contents and the wallet itself. so they just figured, well its not the wallet that matters, its the stuff inside. so they just put your stuff in a random wallet and sent it off to you. since they had known how that specific wallet had been found, they figured, “lets tell him how we got it…he’ll buy it. at least its a true story, even if its not his real wallet’s true story.”

anyway, the story is all based on a separation of work in at police HQ, AND a forgetting to label the evidence. i’m sure it happens.

i meant debit/credit interchangeably. but back in the day, crooks would have leapt at a card of any sort and gone on all kinds of spending sprees (probably especially on gas, where you don’t ever have to talk to a person the card transaction). But once people started getting caught by just doing that, the crooks started getting wise (I heard about it on the news too).

But seriously. Pretty intense Ben. Glad you made it out with nothing too serious. I’m kinda shocked it happened in Georgetown! You know what this means now right. TASER TIME. Muhaha.

btw, I looked through your parent’s blog. It’s really good! Great use of photos. Looks like they had quite an nice time in Germany!

Heading home on Saturday.