While it's common enough for wallets and phones to be lost on trains and buses, the discovery of items such as vacuum-sealed rats, breast implants and human skulls have proven it's possible to leave anything behind.
The Cityrail Lost Property office in NSW told ninemsn it has received thousands of misplaced and forgotten items, with only around 10 percent ever claimed by owners.
Most items are the more typical bags and phones, some of the more unusual things handed in in recent years have been a suitcase full of $80,000 in cash, multiple prosthetic limbs and two vacuum-sealed dead rats, which were most likely intended as snake food.
But Britain's rail system has a real claim for odd discoveries, according to the UK’s Times today with around 170,000 items handed into the lost and found, included an urn of ashes, two human skulls in a bag and a vascetomy kit.
Also discovered were breast implants, a jar of bull semen, a stuffed eagle and 125kg of sultanas, as well as a misplaced waxwork replica of Paul McCartney's head which disappeared from a wax museum.
One fortunate recovery was that of a $2.9m cello belonging to classical music legend Yo Yo Ma which was absent-mindedly left in the back seat of a New York cab.
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