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Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on him...

August 29th 2010 07:16

Link: anzacbloggersunite.blog.co.uk/2012/01/12/indi...

Total stupidity

Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on him...

A Kiwi man from Invercargill in Southland who thought fortune had smiled on him when he found a $2000 ring that had been dropped on the main street, has ended up in the pokey on a charge of theft.

Instead of handing in the ring to the local police, and waiting for the owner to claim it, he decided to get cute and took the ring to the local jewellers for valuing.

However when the ring's owner reported it missing,the police found the man on the store's CCTV footage.

Not a case of fortune favouring the brave, but the naive, I would suggest. I don't know whether he convinced the police,the owner and the jewellery store of his innocence? But it made for an interesting story here.

Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on.

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Comment by Margaret Bennett

August 29th 2010 13:46

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Doctoring The Soul

Whatever happened to finders keepers losers weepers? Someone drops a ring and someone finds it then takes it to a jeweler to have it appraised, and is arrested? Wow. The person reported they dropped it. Now, unless the person took out an ad or posted a flyer near where they dropped it; I'd have been arrested too. No one in America would have turned it in. We would make an insurance claim - the police would never be involved in a lost ring. Poor guy...