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Q: Will anything like this ever happen here?
Today I was reading some news from back home, and two stoke me in a particular way. A woman went to Goodwill to buy a $ 3.99 pair of jeans, and when arrived home found a $ 6500 diamond engagement ring in the small change pocket. She is looking for the rightful owner to return it.
The other one was a man in Texas, who received a $1,381,783.92 bill for his monthly electrical consumption. He telephoned his electrical power supplier, who found out a computer glitch charging him $ 1,000 per Kw/hr instead of cents. A new bill will be made and sent.
But, how many persons here will return a ring found inside a used jean pocket?. Or how many problems can you straighten out over the phone ? Just wondering........
I think is its more feasible that a person returns the diamond ring. One of my colleagues just returned over usd10000 he found in a public toilet last week. Miracles can happen.
Returning the ring? Probably not, because people here don't like to buy used clothing in the first place. Even if they did, how would they find the true owner? So many people might just claim it is theirs with no proof. As for the bill, as long as that person had the means, I'm sure they would fight it, unless it wasn't an accident...
According to news ,similar things happened here before, but very few.
Just think about how many phones you have lost. I lost 6. None of them came back to me.
You know I'm not a fortune teller and I can't see into the future Hexpat but my opinion is that nobody will give the diamond ring back here and that story about the guys electrical bill is old news at least 3 or 4 months old. There was a guy however that got arrested because he took out about 1.4 million dollars at the bank of america's atm because there was a glitch...will that happen here I doubt it.
Ease up, I know a good deal of Chinese people who would try to return something like that.
