WAYNE [NJ]- A group of young men dubbed "honest shoppers" have come forward after they walked into a Wayne store that was supposed to be closed, took what they needed and left money for their purchases.
Honest Shoppers Mistakenly Break Into N J Store, Pay For Goods
Management at Buddy's Small Lots on Route 23 got a call from police that there had been a break-in at the store, but upon arrival, nothing was missing. The lock on the door had malfunctioned and the lights were still on, so the store looked open for business. Surveillance footage shows a group of bewildered shoppers entering the store and calling out for a clerk. After figuring out what they owed, they left the exact amount for the speaker cable and batteries they bought.
"Not only did they leave money on the counter, they counted out the change," store operations manager Marci Lederman says.John A Lynch said...
Great Story Honesty pays off. However the NCAA will now suspend them for recieving $50 gift cards.
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The gift cards are nice but Charlie Bucket got a whole freaking chocolate factory.
Good for the kids for doing it the right way.
And the NCAA has been crooked for how long?
Good on them.
A glimmer of hope vs. Helena handbasket.
It's the little things in life that foster the greatest hope.
The drug store in the town down the road opens late on Sunday.
Delivered newspapers are piled in the doorway.
Early readers take a paper from under a growing pile of money and leave their money on the pile.
As far as I know, it's always worked. It's been a few years since I've been there.
Wasn't Bush 43 supposed to be at the Lincoln Memorial today.
Many years ago there was a segment on Candid Camera with Allen Funt where customers at a roadside diner were told that there were no set prices and that they could pay whatever they wanted for their food.
The takeaway was that ordinary people are good, honest, decent people who won't take unfair advantage, IIRC.
I sort of doubt that that's the sort of reality TV that gets green-lighted these days.
That reminded me of my older brother being observed contemplating stealing an apple from an outside display in a small town. Think Mayberry. I was in the First grade. The owner, or some other nearby observer called my dad and told him by brother is a good kid. So my dad had a solemn ceremony with me as witness where Barry is presented with a dollar for his brilliant moral-ethical judgement at such a ripe young age.
And I was all, fuck. I didn't even consider stealing anything and I don't get a dollar. And later that whole return of the prodigal son thing didn't ring true either. Both these perverse reward systems are invitations to act up.
Prodigal son Rilke.
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