丟失錢包18年 分文未少歸原主大綱

A British expat has been reunited with his leather wallet and passport – nearly two decades after they were lost during a train ride across Switzerland.

英國男子柯林·門多薩18年前把錢包丟在了瑞士的一列火車上，18年後的今天竟然意外找回。

It appears no one stole anything during the 18 years that CoLin Mendoza’s wallet was missing as it still contains the passport and his long-expired credit cards, driving licence,receipts and an identification card from an old job.

而且令人驚奇的是，雖然過去了18年，但錢包和丟失的時候沒什麼差別，裏面的護照、信用卡、駕駛證等一切東西都保存得完好無缺。

But where it was all this time and how it was discovered remain a mystery that may never be solved.

但是丟失期間錢包的去向以及如何被發現的目前還是一個謎。

Colin still isn’t certain how he lost the wallet while travelling by train from Zurich Airport to Geneva in 1996.

科林至今仍不確定1996年在蘇黎世機場開往日內瓦的火車上他是如何把這個錢包弄丟的。

He fell asleep on the train and didn’t realise it was missing until he was getting into a car in Geneva. He reported it missing to police and then went through the hassle of getting a new passport and cancelling and ordering new credit cards.

當時他在火車上睡着了，直到坐汽車進入日內瓦的時候才發現錢包丟了，於是他報了案，然後辦了新的護照，取消了舊的信用卡，辦了新的信用卡。

Years passed and Colin, who now lives in the US state of Connecticut, forgot about the incident until he received a surprise eMail from a police officer in the tiny Swiss mountain town of Chur.

這麼多年過去了，現在住在美國康涅狄格州的科林早就忘記了這件事情。直到前不久科林收到一封讓人驚喜的郵件，郵件來自瑞士山地小鎮庫爾當地的警察。

It turns out someone found the wallet on the floor of a shopping centre in Chur – more than four hours by train from Geneva and 90 minutes from Zurich – and handed it in to local police.

原來有人在購物中心的地板上發現了這個錢包，然後撿過來交給了當地的警察。而錢包被撿到的地方距離日內瓦有四個多小時的火車車程，到蘇黎世也要坐90分鐘的火車。

After a quick search online an officer found his LinkedIn profile and tracked down his email address.

警察立即通過在線搜索系統，找到了科林的檔案並跟蹤到他的電子郵件地址。

Colin, 50, told MailOnline Travel: ‘There was a little bit of shock and surprise when I received the email. It was an “Oh my God” kind of thing.

50歲的科林說：“當我收到郵件時十分驚訝。天哪，居然還有這種事情。”

‘I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. The fact that everything was intact and it was found in a supermarket, that’s weird.’

“我不確定我該怎麼處理這個錢包。一切都保存得很好，而且是在購物中心被發現的，我覺得這太奇怪了。”

Colin said the wallet itself – a gift from his wife – is in good condition and showing few signs of additional wear and tear.

科林說這個錢包是妻子是送給他的禮物，它保存的非常好，幾乎沒有磨損。

‘I’m amazed at its good condition and that it had all my old ID – my passport, driving licence, old company ID and all my credit cards. I’m not sure if at the time there was money inside or not, but I think not.

“我非常驚訝這個錢包在過了18年後還可以保存的這麼完好，而且裏面的護照、駕駛證、身份證、信用卡等證件都在。我不記得當時錢包裏面有沒有錢了，但我想應該是沒有的。”

‘My wife even remembered the wallet as she gave it to me.’

“我的妻子甚至還記得，這個錢包是她送給我的。”

Colin, a married father of two who runs his own media business, said the police haven’t figured out how the wallet ended up in Chur.

科林現在擁有自己的媒體事業，同時還是兩個孩子的父親。他說庫克當地的警方也沒搞明白這個錢包是怎麼回事。

A police spokesman told Switzerland's SDA news agency: ‘We have no idea how it found its way from the train to a shopping centre.

警方的一位發言人稱：“錢包是在火車上丟的，可最後在購物中心裏被