longtailedhermit's Journal: LOST MEN'S WEDDING BAND $ REWARD

LOST MEN'S [sic] WEDDING BAND $ REWARD

I follow some of the blogs here on slashdot. Sometiems they are interesting and I post replies. I posted this as AC in someone's journal the other day. He mentioned something that reminded me of a ring I'd found:

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Your story about the headphones and the guy who goes around town leaving things lying around to see who picks them up reminds me of something I found. The other morning, early, I found a gold and diamond ring on the steps on my way to school. It's fairly large so I'm guessing it's valuable. I picked it up and set it on the hand railing in a highly visible spot where the diamond and gold could reflect the morning sunlight, thinking the owner would quickly retrace his steps and find it. But that night, it was still there. So I took it and put it in my pocket so some seagull or some other animal wouldn't take it. Anyway, I put it on my desk, intending to turn it nto lost and found when I get a chance. Then I forgot about it until now. So, what would you do: keep it as a ground score, turn it in to lost and found, or do something crazy like mail it to you at your church?,

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I wont' bother pasting his entire reply, but he said to give it away. ....

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You say to give it to the first person who likes it? I left the gold and diamond ring sitting on a hand rail alongside a heavily traveled stairway outside. It was in the sun in a highly visible location. It sat there all day, and I guess nobody liked it. It feels heavy and looks expense -- but I don't know how to appraise its value. Anyway, it's not worth enough to anybody here to bother pawning it.

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It's been 3 weeks since I found the ring. Right after I found it, I had put it on my desk and starting keeping a lookout for "Lost Ring" signs. Until now, I hadn't find any signs. Also, I have been busy and hadn't gotten around to locating the Lost and Found where I could turn it in.
Then, yesterday, I saw this sheet of Xerox paper posted at a kiosk on campus. It was printed in large, clumsy capital letters with what looked like magic marker. The handwriting was so crude that it looked like a child had written it. Even the grammar was not correct. It made me think the owner didn't care much about recovering his ring. Not only that, but for as much as I walk around campus, it's the only sign I've seen. It was dated 2 days after I found the ring so I assume it is the one. However, I'm still not sure if it is a man's ring. I couldn't get it past the first knuckle of my pinkie. But maybe it is and it belongs to an Asian male (tiny fingers).

Anyway, the ring has no value to me. It's too small, and the design is tacky. Of course, I don't consider this to be a "ground score." I think I will either give it to lost and found, and then call the number on the sign telling him where he can pick it up and not try to collect any reward. Or, I might call and ask that the cash reward be donated to a local homeless shelter of my choosing in exchange for the ring's return. I will have to find a good one that requires its residents to fill out a lot paper work and sign their names multiple times. The kind of paperwork that takes a good 15 minutes to do, stresses you out, and makes you feel like you've sold your soul. And the kind of shelter that makes the residents DO SOME WORK AND HOUSEHOLD CHORES in exchange for eating and sleeping there.

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  Anyway, I thought this next comment in the other person's journal was odd. He or she goes on a rant that makes about as much sense as a tweaker on a 7 day binge. Actually, I had a friend in college who suffered from schizophrenia. He would go into these episodes where everyone was out to get him and would rant and rave and get do twacked out shit and get locked up. That's what this reminds me of. Then he goes on to suggest that it is his ring and that he gave it to someone who in turn gave it to a child so he would be suspected of pedophilia. Again, sorry for the lack of formatting. HTML tags are no longer working for me

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I was going to quote his or her journal, but I don't want to start anything with him. For the same reason, I won't name him.
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BTW, how come my HTML tags won't work? I've tried putting the paragraphs I've cut and pasted in itallics, closing with forward slash i [/i] and [\i]. Neither works.

edit: just figured it out. I was using brackets instead of