Good story-Diogenes style

timmgirvan · #1 12-19-2008, 02:06 PM

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12192008...win_144978.htm

Should warm the hearts of some here!

ninetoone · #2 12-19-2008, 03:18 PM

So the good sam only got $700 out of the deal? That is extremely cheap considering what he did. He got boned.

somerfrost · #3 12-19-2008, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ninetoone

So the good sam only got $700 out of the deal? That is extremely cheap considering what he did. He got boned.

He got a lot more than money....

MaTH716 · #4 12-19-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

He got a lot more than money....

Yeah, he could say for the rest of his life how he did the right thing and changed the lives for an 92 year old woman and her family. When he could have kept the ticket and nobody would have been any the wiser. But he does the honerable thing and then the woman and the family turn around and promptly stick it up the kids ass by giving him 700 bucks. Come on! Looking back on it now, I wonder if the kid is having second thoughts. I personally think that they screwed a kid who did one of the most honest deeds that I have ever heard of.

AeWingnut · #5 12-19-2008, 07:08 PM

back in her day $700 would buy you a house or car and have money left over for a suit, etc....

hey - he did the right thing.

and as the old saying goes...

no good deed
goes unpunished

ninetoone · #6 12-19-2008, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MaTH716

Yeah, he could say for the rest of his life how he did the right thing and changed the lives for an 92 year old woman and her family. When he could have kept the ticket and nobody would have been any the wiser. But he does the honerable thing and then the woman and the family turn around and promptly stick it up the kids ass by giving him 700 bucks. Come on! Looking back on it now, I wonder if the kid is having second thoughts. I personally think that they screwed a kid who did one of the most honest deeds that I have ever heard of.

Thank you. Geez, I had a stranger give me 500 bucks at a craps table in Vegas several years back just for rolling the dice for 10 minutes and getting a few points. Now that was generous!

timmgirvan · #7 12-19-2008, 08:12 PM

Apparently, the Grinch has already been to DT!

MaTH716 · #8 12-19-2008, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I hear you. I found a guy's $800 voucher in a machine at an OTB a few years back. When I returned it, he gave me $200 and when I ran into him a few weeks later bought me a few beers. I suppose it was nice the family gave him anything, but it does seem pretty small considering what the guy did.

Obviously that guy knew he lost something. Other stories you hear like people leaving valuable instruments in the back of cabs and so on, there is some sort of loss that people realize. That's what makes it so bad. This old lady would have never known she had the winner unless the kid called her back. He would have been free and clear, instead he basically gives her/them a million dollars and they throw him some chump change.

Danzig · #9 12-20-2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ninetoone

So the good sam only got $700 out of the deal? That is extremely cheap considering what he did. He got boned.

i believe the saying is 'honesty is its own reward'.

but yeah, they could have been a little more giving...he gave them a million, they each gave a hundred-seems pretty cheap on their part.