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A goldfish, hamster and a Japanese teppanyaki grill are among the ten strangest items that have been left in cars by Uber passengers in the past six months, the ride-sharing service has revealed.
More than 5,000 items have been handed in to the company’s lost property centre in east London, with mobile phones and keys the most commonly forgotten items.
But Uber’s list has also revealed some of the more unusual items that have been left behind by users of the service – commonly known as riders.
Dentures, a bag of human hair, 50 mozzarella balls and five sombreros all featured on the strangest lost items list.
Uber’s driver centre manager Rosie Craig said: “We receive new items every day and each one tells a story.
“It can be very seasonal; over Halloween we see an influx of masks, in summer its sunglasses, winter sees umbrellas, hats and gloves and last year we had a carnival headdress come in on the weekend of Notting Hill Carnival.
“Over the past year we’ve been able to reconnect students to their laptops, children to their toys, people to their reading glasses and one driver even returned a family heirloom that had been left on his car boot direct to his rider.
“It’s amazing to be able to reunite people to their items and the thanks and gratitude we get makes it all worthwhile.”
