So, my brother is an engineer at a company called ncr (relevant), he works on the self check-out machines in supermarkets. When he was in a store he turned his back on his bag for a second to speak to staff, when he turned back his bag was gone. In it he had an Ipod, one of his phones, some tools and his wallet containing £10 in cash, a credit card and a debit card. About 20 minutes later our mum gets a call from some guy on my brother's stolen phone saying he found his bag with everything in it on the 52 bus. My mum gave the guy my brother's other phone number and he called him. When they're talking he says the bag looks like an engineer's bag and asks my brother if he's an engineer. My brother says yes, and then he asks if he works for ncr, my brother says yes. He wants to return the bag, my brother is still at work so he tells him to bring it round to our flat and give it to me. My brother gives him our home number and address and the guy calls our home, I answer and he explains to me what's happened and tells me he's on his way over. I put some clothes on and wait for him to call to let me know when he's outside. About 30 minutes later I get the call, go outside and start looking for his car. As I'm looking my brother arrives back from work in his van, the guy and my brother are on the phone and my brother tells him he's here now so he'll get it himself, he say's "no, no, no it's ok let your brother(me) get it." My bro tells me he wants me to get it so I go up to his car and get it. He leaves, I look in the bag and the phone is still there (which was obvious by now since he was using it), the cards, ipod and tools were all there. Nothing was stolen apart from the £10.
Now, this is odd for a number of reasons: (3 makes us the most suspicious)
1: How did he know my brother worked at NCR? There was nothing on or in his bag to indicate where he worked, it's a common nike bag containing common tools, nothing specific to his work and nothing with an NCR logo.
2: Who steals a bag only to leave it on a bus without stealing anything inside aside from a £10 note when there's hundreds of £s worth of stuff in there? Furthermore who then picks up an unattended bag on public transport? Since 7/7 (London bus/train bombings) people stay the hell away from unattended bags on buses or trains.
3: The store my brother works at showed him the security tape of the person stealing the bag, he was described to me as dark skinned (pakistani/indian) with black thick-rimmed glasses and wearing dark clothes. The guy I met outside who returned my brother's bag matches this description. He had dark skin, black thick-rimmed glasses and was wearing a dark jumper. AND he insisted on ME getting the bag when my brother was in his sight and he could see me talking to him. Maybe he knew he'd be on tape so he didn't want my brother to ID him.
This is just weird. I mean nothing was taken (apart from cash), but he could of taken pictures of the cards so he'd have the details. Maybe he didn't take the Ipod/phone because they could of had tracking devices in them, but if that's so then why would he return it instead of just ditching it somewhere?
Are we just over-thinking some innocent man's kind actions or is something shady going on?
