Stolen or Lost

Flower calls from Saarbrucken crying her eyes out. She says she had her wallet stolen somewhere between the Neubrucke train station and there and got off the train to call and report it. She was looking for a way to get back because she had no money. I felt bad for her. Poor girl who doesn't speak german lost in the middle of nowhere. So I gave her the staff duty number to her unit and told her to come in and make a formal report when she got back.
She cam in a little while later and, while we only handle lost ID cards, I had the patrol take an additional statement from her, just to make her feel good. She thanks me and leaves.
The interpreter comes into the desk area a couple days later and says that there is someone in the Polizei station claiming that a taxi driver stole their wallet. I asked what their name was and it turned out to be the same flower. The linguist took care of the phone call and minutes later, someone turned in her wallet in a brown paper bag with her name and address on it. I began calling around to get in touch with her. I sent a patrol to her room and told them to tell her that we needed to do some more paperwork on her case. Unfortunately, my coworker was unaware of this and she called in, so he told her that we have her wallet.
Well, we wanted to screw around and have a little fun with the girl that had already wasted our time and accused a German national of stealing her wallet, when in fact she was just irresponsible. She came in and I had her take a seat downstairs and wait while the investigator with access to the property room (me) was called in to get her wallet (found my motivation to pick it up off the desk and give it back). We had her sit downstairs for fifteen minutes or so and then I had the patrol tell her that the investigator was on his way and would be there shortly. She came upstairs and I told her it would be about ten more minutes. Sergeant Marine was off to the side. I told her to wait more and I made up a fake 4137 evidence form. Sergeant Marine played Desk Specialist for a minute and I walked around with the girl's wallet , had her sign for the stuff and sent her on her way. While she checked to see if everything was there, she tore EVERYTHING out of the wallet. Once again, wasting our time. She claimed that there was money missing, but all her IDs and credit cards were there.
We never told her that we knew she was a lying, untrustworthy, conniving little snitch. But we made her wait over an hour for something that usually takes less than one minute to take care of. Needless to say, we all got a wonderful laugh out of the whole situation. Moral of the story is, don't blame your troubles on other people.