I'm Just Sayin'

I'm going to try not to have too many rants about Angelinos being in their own little worlds and on their own little islands and isolating themselves from each other, because that would just be playing to the stereotype. I mean, I'm predisposed to think that, so I must be looking for it, right?

Right.

Let me ask you, dear reader, what would you have done?

I was in the middle of what is rapidly becoming a morning ritual, which was a nice hour-long hike to the top of Mount Hollywood and back. And as I neared the parking area at the end of the hike, I crossed this kind of bridge over a crevasse, with a wall along the side. And on top of the wall, someone had carefully placed a fairly new dog collar; the kind with a breakaway closure for safety. And the breakaway was open, so it had obviously fallen off the dog it was formerly attached to.

So, clearly, someone hiking found the dog collar and wanted to "do the right thing" and put it out in the open for the owner to retrieve it, instead of leaving it on the trail where they found it.

Except...

The collar had a tag with a phone number and an email address on it, along with the name of the dog, its owner's name, and the words IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT. Plus, it had a City of LA dog permit tag attached to it. And I'm not a rocket scientist, but maybe the dog's owner is already trying to decide how long to wait before they give up and replace everything. And maybe replacing everything will be expensive and inconvenient for the dog's owner.

Perhaps more expensive and inconvenient than pocketing the collar and making a simple phone call?