Really nice person

[Shawnee123]

Woman tips a cabbie 30 cents on an 11 dollar fare. He finds a BAG of diamond rings she had left behind in the trunk. He goes crazy trying to locate her to return her goods. She gives him a hundred bucks. Story here.

I call bitch.

OK, maybe that's not fair...let me put it this way:

If I were the woman, I think I would have been much more appreciative that someone returned 31 diamond rings to me. She was a jeweler...whether she owned the diamonds or a corporation did...someone would be hurting for that money.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Cheap bitch at that.

[deadbeater]

Maybe she didn't carry around so much cash on hand, for safety reasons, and perhaps will thank him more formally and more generously in the future.

But then she could be a bitch.

[lumberjim]

cash karma will get you
it's gonna knock you right on your ass

[tw]

Sound like a story from "My Name is Earl". Was her name Carma?

[Guyute]

Similar thing happened where I live last week- Student finds $10K, gets a $500 reward, then gets home to find out the gov't retracted most of his student loan...what a way to end the day.
QUOTE:
It’s not $10,000 but honest student rewarded



For any student who has struggled to pay for tuition while dining on macaroni and cheese, finding an abandoned wad of cash would be too good to be true.

But when Jaime Hawkins stumbled upon a "loaf-of-bread-sized" stack of $20 bills next to a bank machine at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the student immediately decided to return the cash.

The $10,000 stack was mistakenly left behind by two security guards who were refilling the machine in the student union building.

Hawkins, who handed the money to a student union employee, says he "feels good" about his decision, though he now finds himself strapped for cash.

Last month, about a week after he found the loot, the 29-year-old discovered his New Brunswick student loan had been reassesed, meaning he’ll receive nearly $6,000 less than he initially thought.

However, Toronto-based Group 4 Securicor, the firm that misplaced the money, says Hawkins and the student union worker will each receive $500 rewards.

"It’s nice to know there’s honest people in the world with integrity, whose mother raised them right," said company spokeswoman Robin Steinberg.



articel: http://www.herald.ca/Search/557465.html

[monster]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

whether she owned the diamonds or a corporation did...someone would be hurting for that money.

What if...

her company owned them, they were insured, would not cover a reward but would happily sack her for losing them....

she's not so much a jeweller as a jeweller's gofer who's cab fare but not tips and certainly not rewards are paid for and who's salary is not registering on the astonishing scale

It could be that the tip was all she had, or perhaps the driver was unpleasnat on the ride. It could be that the reward is coming out of her own pocket and she isn't loaded, or it's the maximum her company would pay. Who knows? Why judge?

All one can really get from this story is that the cabbie is honest. And attention-seeking. I doubt very much the jewellers instigated the press coverage on this.

[cowhead]

Maybe she didn't carry around so much cash on hand, for safety reasons?

thirty one diamond rings.... kinda voids the safety rational..

and I hate to be a dick, but... even if she were just a gofer.. she left 31 diamond rings.. in a bag.. in a cab.. she perhaps ought to reconsider her career choice.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Guyute

But when Jaime Hawkins stumbled upon a "loaf-of-bread-sized" stack of $20 bills next to a bank machine at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, the student immediately decided to return the cash.

Or he was smart enough to know if he got anywhere near that machine it took his picture.