Posted on 09/12/2024 8:56:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Everybody who returned the wallet could imagine how the person missing the wallet would feel. Some people had a sense of pride in being an honest person. But they all had that basic empathy.
“Finns are naturally honest,” he said. “We are a small, quiet, closely-knit community. We have little corruption, and we don’t even run red lights.”
The type of nice, clean, boring country I’d love to live in. Don’t need the “vibrancy” of gunshot sounds, rap music, drugged out bums lying and shitting on the streets, constant racial upheavals...
If I want “excitement” I’ll go visit it somewhere else... and then come home.
It does make me wonder though - rather than comparing major cities, what about comparing them to small towns in various countries? I suspect the overall return rate would be much higher in the latter. Suburbs I suspect would be no better than inner cities, and maybe worse.
Left my wallet on the check out stand in a small market while visiting Santa Barbara, CA. Across the street from a baseball park where some homeless hung out.
Traced back to the place where I probably left it. The store manager looked at the video. Saw the guy behind me put his wallet on top of mine and walk out. Manager knew who the guy was. He was one of the homeless guys in the park. Store manager and I confronted the guy while perp was in the park. Guy finally gave up the wallet...intact...but no money (was 62 bucks). Cops were notified but never showed up.(Other more pressing matters).
DMV rep. Laughed when I told her I wanted a new numbers Drivers license.
Later on,SB cops told me the guy was habitual criminal and wanted me to testify. Cops couldn’t guarantee a court date, and I was a caregiver for my brother. So I couldn’t testify.
Wanted to give store manager money as a reward,later. But he was never at store. Kind and brave man...never forget his good deed.
Look at the list again. London is on there. While nominal Christians outnumber them, practicing Muslims likely outnumber practicing Christians.
Very poor study design...very poor...not even worth publishing or even repeating.
Strangely enough — this happened to me in Ukraine (2017) sort of.
I was out and about and a guy in the street found one — weirdly it had money from various countries. The guy wanted to split it with me. Now I could have used the money — the ATM had eaten my credit card and I was praying we’d have enough money to get home.
I thought no, he found it all on his own. There was no ID as I recall.
A few minutes later, another guy came around and claimed the money. The guy who found the money surrendered it rather easily.
I wondered if the whole thing was a scam designed to get me to put my share of the money in my own wallet, then when the other guy came around wanting his money, I’d have had to empty all the cash out of my own wallet.
...or maybe the two guys together would have introduced me to the Ukrainian mafia.
They tried, but the reporters were never heard from again...
...not on the streets. /John Cleese
Don’t tell me you’ve never seen The Sting (1973) with Robert Redford and Paul Newman!? That’s pretty much the opening scene!
Oh, you’re right...I did see it. Thankfully we had enough money to get home...that was before the war...I won’t be going back any time soon.
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