Here is my logic. You find a disc with a number or other means of contact, you contact that person. If you don't, you are a dick. Plain and simple. If you find someone's wallet on the street do you think you are just entitled to it? Do you not contact the wallets owner? Furthermore in lots of places having that wallet is possession of stolen goods.
Again, call on found discs. Could be the owner is coming back for it, could be it fell out of their bag and they didn't notice right away. Any way you slice it, calling is the right thing to do.
If you won't, I will. In the day and age of cell phones if you don't at least shoot a text saying "it's at the dugout/under the trash can/etc" you're a dick.
I just love this logic where supposedly...
1. Everyone carries a cell phone on the course.
2. Uses text messages regularly.
3. That cell phones and cell service never malfunction and the recipient of said text will see said text and be able to reply in a timely manner.
4. For the incidental act of finding someone's disc with a phone number (not necessarily taking it) that person is now morally obligated to get the disc back to the person who lost it.
5. That if finder follows through on notifying the owner, that the owner won't be a pain in the ass in getting it's return arranged.
6. That somehow a piece of sports equipment that costs less than $20 is effectively the same importance as a wallet that contains money, bank cards and personal information.
You know back in the old days of these threads, I would be appalled at how some people would shamelessly pronounce "finders keepers", even going so far to tell them about lost, mislaid or abandoned property laws, that pretty much every state has on statute.
But boy anymore, some of you who lose your discs seem to have the same douchey sense of entitlement in getting them back, so honestly, if there's not a convenient means for me to get it back to you like an on course drop box or disc store I can take them to nearby, I'm leaving the damned thing where I found it. The next finder can deal with that conundrum. If you want to call me a dick for that, oh well. I'm not the one who put it there for me to find.