It turns out people (and animals!) who find phones just can’t help but leave a little memento behind.
And as you probably know, plenty of phones don’t need to be unlocked with a password to take a photo, so anyone can bestow the gift of the selfie upon you.
These 60 photos are ones smartphone owners found in their albums and they KNOW they didn’t take themselves. Some are mysteries while others are anything but.
1. Begin the greatest
But just check out this shot. This is way better than most group photos we’ve taken on purpose!
2. Paw power
We think this pup needs to learn more about flattering angles.
3. Legends
This man did but managed to find two good-natured officers of the law to bring him home.
They left him and his belongings there safely, but not without leaving him a little reminder of the night before.
4. The face of a good samaritan
The good samaritan kindly turned it into lost and found but not before making sure the owner knows who the real hero is.
5. Snip snap
A Redditor explained:
“We went parasailing yesterday and asked someone on the boat to take photos of us. We found this on our camera.”
Someone has a sick sense of humor!
6. Things you’d rather forget
Well, it sounds like this “gentleman” deserved the wake-up call.
“We work at a bar, after closing down (at 4am) we walked out to find this guy; pants down, passed out. We took a picture and then took one on his phone for him. (We also woke him up and put him in a cab) but at least he got a pic when he woke up.”
7. Service selfie
This car owner installed an iPad on his dash and when he went to the carwash one of the attendants couldn’t help but leave this on his camera roll.
8. Purse pursuit
The phone inside contained some fun-loving photos of the purse having a great time without her.
9. Demented dentist
We’re pretty sure that coworker is going to postpone his next appointment for a cleaning!
10. Cluck and click
This person managed to lose their phone inside a chicken coop and found this photo on the camera roll later.
It looks like social media really has corrupted us all!
11. The good people of Walmart
They even posted the photo to Facebook to let her know where to find it!
(Now think about the implications of someone less trustworthy finding your unlocked phone and posting to your social media – yikes!)
12. Why steal when you can prank?
A Redditor explained:
“Just got this picture in a text from my husband’s phone. He’s the one sleeping. I don’t know that other guy.”
We don’t know him either, but we’d like to be his friend!
13. What happens in Vegas…
In the morning, he was holding his phone and this photo popped up.
We’re not sure what happened here, but it sure looks like he was annoying Batman.
14. Geronimo!
Looks like this dog was ready to get revenge against it for getting all the attention. Alas, he was caught in the act.
15. Wild day at the dentist
She didn’t remember taking this photo but found it on her camera roll the next day.
Apparently some part of her wanted a memento!
16. Boyfriend Of the Year
Now the rest of the Internet is ready to marry him.
Hey, most of the time we forget to put toner on altogether – this guy’s really got it down!
17. Police proof
It managed to travel to a different country – and they took a memorial photo to prove they had it.
18. Group effort
And they managed to get it back to him in the same condition he left it – except with one extra photo.
19. Bat phone
Or at least that’s what it looks like since this is what he found in his photo album later that day.
20. We hope she didn’t unlock it with the fingerprint
When this patient was getting part of his finger amputated, one of the nurses decided to commemorate the moment with an OR selfie on his camera roll.
21. Commemorating cuteness
She found it the next morning and we imagine she was feeling MUCH better.
22. We hope she’s wearing gloves on the other hand
Nevertheless, we’re appreciating these fun Nandos employees who left a funny photo before graciously returning the lost phone.
23. Wrong code
This furry felon was caught in the act.
We wonder just how many times he or she tried.
24. Celebrity selfie
And that hero was Woody Harrelson!
25. Public service announcement
26. PSA Part II
They took some more epic shots of their new “cell”mate.
27. Ladies of law enforcement
“Hi, we found your mobile phone. You can come and pick it up.”
How many times do we have to say it folks: Be sure to lock your phones! It doesn’t always turn out this well.
28. Reenactments
He didn’t return it, but thanks to his bad thieving skills he did take a lot of photos with it that she was then able to download from the Cloud.
Afterward, she set about reenacting them with a fake mustache on her Tumblr account, which is epic in its own right.
29. Get my good side
Looks like it made the rounds among airport employees with a mischevious sense of humor.
30. Hamming it up
There was no proof that she intended to keep it, although she was happy to at least take some photos for the owner before he came to fetch it.
31. Forgive me, father
No doubt this young man feels like he dodged a bullet when they didn’t snoop through his photos.
32. Criminal mastermind
We’re not sure how she guessed, but she seemed pretty confident about IDing the thief.
33. Good karma
Not only did they turn in the phone but left a little note (and then some) with a kind messge for the owner.
34. That’s our selfie face too
Maybe it belongs to the one baby animal whose owners don’t take a million photos and this little one was feeling unappreciated.
Nah.
35. Photogenic face
We’d say those are some world-class selfie-ing skills and would be happy to leave our phone in his capable paws.
36. Resting beach face
They returned it along with their best beach selfie.
37. Phones having fun
It played ping pong, got a workout in, and hung out with the team while it waited for its owner.
This phone had a more productive day than most of us!
38. Phone fumble
Luckily, some fans found it and showed their love through the lens while they were at it.
Jones also took a selfie with them when he got it back.
39. Majestic macaques
We’re not sure if they stole this from a tourist in Thailand or just came across one someone dropped, but it looks like they got a surprise when they looked at their photos in the cloud.
40. Toddler terror
Luckily, this one just took an adorable selfie.
41. Victim of vulgarity
To be fair, it would be hard to steal while they were taking naughty photos with it.
42. Typical office Christmas party
But plot twist: The person who lost this phone and got it back at the party later had no idea who these folks were.
Maybe it’s a really big company?
43. Band of blue
Smurf-tastic!
44. Kick-ass concert-goers
They explained the situation:
“Lost my phone at a concert last night. These two kick-ass people found it, kept it, answered when I called looking for it to help get it back, and left a few pictures for me. Thanks to these random strangers!”
45. This is what happens when you schedule too many meetings
“Lost my phone at work and my staff found it before I did. They didn’t exactly give it back…,” said one Redditor.
We assume he got his phone back eventually – or else someone got fired.
46. Selfie of doom
Oh, wait, yes we can: the phone owner had literally no clue whose cat this was.
47. Grandmagate
When your grandma and aunt figure out how to use your phone, things could go a lot worse.
48. That’s bananas
We simply have no explanation for this.
Do you?
49. Perfect strangers
We’d want to sit down with these folks for a beer and a proper thanks as well – they look like a lot of fun!
50. We wanna believe
Who does that?!
How does the phone not break from the beak?
Then again, if the toucan didn’t take this, who did? No one would want to put their fingers in between the phone and the beak at that point.
51. Well that just happened
Alas, they had no idea who this person was.
But our guess is they’ll never forget him.
52. Every move you make
When this guy went out of town with his friends his girlfriend left him a little message in the form of a lock screen photo.
Consider yourself seen, dude.
53. Grocery goofing
Wait, is that the school supply aisle?
54. Stranger danger
After the phone’s owner blacked out at a party (not recommended, by the way), he found a picture of a total stranger looking like this in his photos.
He’s lucky that’s the worst thing that happened!
55. Alter ego
While it looks pretty epic it didn’t take long for his friend to comment: “(Unpictured) friend, here. He played ‘New York, New York’ and he did not play it well.”
Ouch.
Well, the ladies seemed to be enjoying it.
56. Little lemur
Because why not?
We’re not sure if this took place in Madagascar or a zoo or what, but we don’t need answers, just more photos!
And it looks like we might get more because this person isn’t getting their phone back without a fight.
57. Masked menace
“I could not figure out why the bottom half of my sweatpants were missing after a party until i found this on my phone.”
Ok then! Guess that explains everything.
58. Darling double chin
We can’t tell you how many photos we’ve deleted of ourselves looking exactly like this, chins and all.
59. Drinking games
“My friend and I got drunk the other night & found this on my friend’s phone the next day.”
We doubt this will teach them a lesson about anything but it is a most excellent photo!
60. The tables have turned
“I lost my phone near our house, I know that you have found it I can see your photos. I know you live here. Please return!”
Remember the Cloud is always watching, people!
We call this a “thievie.”
Hold onto those phones, friends! You never know who (or what) might find them!
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