Ever since I started my new job, my morales are on par with a christian that goes to church every sunday without fail ...

I say take it to the station 100%

Something I've learnt with age, having morales is a highly attractive trait to have.

Yeah it's phone locked.

The phone was literally placed on the middle of the seat, almost like a it was meant for me.

For the most part I do have high morals since I think it should be the norm to have it, anyway I'll sleep over it since I can't be asked to get out of the house for the remainder of the day.

Gym kills >.<

Meh.. then the chance of finding the owner is almost 0%... go to a shabby phone shop and let them reset the firmware and lose all the personal information of the previous owner... don't forget to buy a new charger while you at the shabby phone shop..

In the interest of making sure my advice is in the proper context I need to explain my feelings towards police. I hate them all. Inevitably they are corrupt, and abusive more than helpful. Turning it to the police would probably result in it being "lost" and one of the people in the chain of custody getting a brand new phone. By complete coincidence of course.

See if you can get some contacts off the sim card. After that you are more or less in the clear. You cannot reasonably be expected to find the owner, and thus are not morally wrong on the action. So long as you take all reasonable steps to try and track down the owner then you have done nothing wrong.

That's absoloutely absurd you brand ALL police officers like this, my ex was a police officer and he would never have done anything like that.

@Gnizmo: Like Nikkom said it the phone is actually locked, the only way to unlock it is  guessing the code which could be 4-8 digits, but I will take your advice and take appropriate steps of tracking the owner.

@Nikkom: If all fails I'll turn to that

You must ask yourself, "What would Kenshiro do?"

Talking about Kenshiro have you even watched Hokuto No Ken 2? if not please don't talk to me since I think even Kenshiro wouldn't dare to look at you! (;P)

Kenshiro doesn't need a phone innate telepathy FTW!!!!

I'd return it, but I don't know how you can do it. Maybe turn it over to the bus company?