As stated in my home page, I personally make and use my products in the field.  With this in mind, I recently left my custom made citation book on the hood of my patrol vehicle and drove off, leaving it behind.  Approximately one hour later, I realized my mistake and drove back to the scene where I last saw the book.  By the time I arrived, and searched the area, my book disappeared and I was sure that it was lost.  When I completed my search, I received a message from the PD, a citizen found my book and turned it in.  I drove to the station to meet and thank this this unknown stranger, but by the time I arrived to the station, the unknown citizen left without giving me the opportunity to say, "Thank you."  

I had the idea of making custom citation books for this particular reason.  When its personalized, there's a name and agency attached to the book and it will most likely yield the same results in most cases.  When I inspected the citation book, it was clearly obvious that it had been run-over a few times.  The citation clip holder, and the closing snap were smashed and needed to be replaced.  The leather also had a small road marking, but nothing that couldn't be fixed.  I replaced the clip, the snap, and the road mark gave it character.  The book went immediately back to work.