Posted on 04/14/2015 7:16:42 AM PDT by TexasCajun
Think the people at Chick-fil-A are honest, upstanding folks?
This story will confirm your hunch.
A civil rights lawyer in Decatur, Georgia, made a huge mistake when he dropped hundreds of dollars on the floor at a Chick-fil-A while eating breakfast, but a restaurant employee saved him from losing the cash, WXIA-TV reported.
Attorney Victor Long had $1,200 in cash on him — money bound for the bank — on April 1 when he ate breakfast at the restaurant, he told WXIA.
“I didn’t even think about backtracking, because I figured anybody who found the money, the way people need things now, it probably never was going to come back,” he said. ”I hoped that whoever got the money would need it. And I was satisfied with that. And I thought that if someone who found it needed it, it would be a blessing to me.”
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Great kid, wish him the best of luck. I know he'll do well.
Have a great day, FRiend! :-)
My first thought too. A trap that backfired.
Whoa, back the turnip truck up there, Jasper! You mean to tell me we've had a Republican in the White Hut these past six years?
Doin’ right aint about race, it is about character.
God bless the employee, Jacob King for his honesty and example! I love what he said:
“You only really have two ways to go about things,” King said, “there’s the right way and there’s every other way. And that’s pretty much all there is to it.”
Jacob King may be working in an entry level job right now, but I predict that his future is bright.
As for Chick-fil-A, God bless the management there and their efforts to get the money back to its rightful owner.
There’s a standard theory that larcenousness is tied to material want.
It doesn’t hold water all that well in real life. For each person who steals for bread, there have to be 50 that steal for some frivolity.
"Allow me to expound on your behalf... Self-identified "need", although usually only rooted in desire, is sufficient justification to this lawyer to take what doesn't belong - and he believes it's okay!..."
Um, no. Actually, he was saying that the Obama economy sucks.
This is a true story.
I was trying to deposit my meager checks in an ATM and there was a piece of paper blocking the slot. I happened to have some tweezers and I pulled the paper out, and it was a check from a some kind of real estate transaction. Made out to “CASH”. For $10,000. (That is NOT a typo).
Since I was armed, I could not go into the bank, so I drove over to the line for the drive-up teller.
I waited in line for about ten minutes, and then, suddenly, the person in front of me started BACKING UP. She caught caught up on the curb and was blocking the lane.
There were now people in back of me, so I was a sitting duck as she wiggled the car back and forth. I was starting to have evil thoughts about “no good deed going unpunished” etc.
She finally disengaged her car without hurting mine, and drove off without making any transaction with the teller.
Then I pulled up and gave the check to the teller, explaining how it was stuck in the ATM.
“Oh she said, “the guy is here right now, and so upset. Thanks!”
She took the check, went away, and didn’t come back to the window, nor did the guy seek me out to thank me. I just shrugged my shoulders and left, happy that I had overcome temptation.
God saw it all, and that’s all that matters.
It may have been a “Sucker-Trap” but goodness won! LOL!
I had someone look at me like I’d sprouted tentacles and extra heads when I told them “you dropped this” and handed back a Benjamin.
This story is not over, I’m sure.
People will recognize Jacob’s honesty in huge way.
I think it’s part of the left’s more general rejection of objective morality.
They can excuse “situational dishonesty”, because it supports their more general rejection of objective right and wrong.
re: Perfect. Let’s hijack a good news thread and put the focus on the bad things we can throw in.
Exactly.
What the hell is it with Freepers thinking $1200 in loose cash is such a large amount of money? Many, many people deal in cash, not unusual at all. Just because someone might have several thousand dollars in cash they are suspect of doing something illegal?? Get a grip folks!
It’s “walkin’ around money”.
I’m just as certain it was never going to see a bank. My guess is it was headed for strip club.
Jeez!..... What a cynic the last 6 years has turned me into!
It’s a grudge, anger based world view.
There’s virtually no excuse to starve in America, between standard welfare programs and charities.
If mere poverty of the material were the problem, the war on it would have whipped it long ago.
But our dear lefty pals do not want to approach these issues in any sensible way because they too, carry the grudge and anger.
God will not brook being robbed, but He will generously give.
You never know when tweezers will come in handy.
Keep in mind this is a “civil rights” lawyer.
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