I guess it isn't safe...
Posted on 04/24/2021 4:02:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A railroad conductor working at the Long Island Rail Road, a commuter train system in New York, found a bag containing two jewelry portfolios storing a total of 36 diamond ring settings worth about $100,000.
Jonathan Yellowday made the discovery on Thursday after a jeweler riding the train left the valuable bag behind.
Yellowday turned the bag full of jewelry over to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, where the jeweler later retrieved his belongings.
The jeweler realized he lost the valuable bag after arriving home.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
If you are absent-minded, you should either try a different profession, or handcuff the bag to your wrist.
Like President?
(Thanks for that hanging curve over the middle of the plate!)
Fugazy??
Damn, I knew I dropped it somewhere...
“Where's those jewels, you silly stupid old fool? Where's those jewels? Do you realize what this means? It means bankruptcy and scandal and prison! That's what it means! One of us is going to jail; well, it's not gonna be me!”
Never made it up to earning 20k per year, but somehow $100k doesn’t sound as impressive as it once did.
Almost $3k per ring and they were only settings!
Peter’s principle still valid. One gets promoted to the highest level of incompetency.
All I ever find are Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, and the occasional Quarter. And they are worth less because the Rats are addicted to borrowing from the Fed. How does this guy get lucky enough to find diamond rings?
Diamonds are the worst investment in the world.
When you buy a new car, you immediately lose 10% of its value after you drive it off the lot.
With diamonds, you lose 30-50% of its value after you slip it on the bride’s finger.
Better to buy the bride a 2021 F-150 Limited 4x2 SuperCrew, starting at $75,945. Great for fishing and hunting and memories. A diamond can’t catch a walleye. A Ford truck can.
Woof!
Well, of course there are the intangibles, such as how much your bride will love the ring, love you for getting it for her, etc. etc.
Everything you wrote is true. Face it, you’re a romantic, not a walleye fisherman.
Once watched as a woman drove out of a greenhoue lot with her purse atop the car. The purse fell off as she made the tyurn onto the street. I stopped and picked it up. Had to look in the wallet to get a license number and possible ID for phone. That woman had at least a dozen credit cards ( I didn’t count them all) and more than a hundred in cahs. When I reached her by phone, she told me she would meet me at the Walgreens near her home, at the pharmacy desk for safety sake. I had my regional manager with me at the time and we wasted a whole half day being good fellas. He laughed about that for years.
Why did he have 36 rings with him and on all places, a NY Subway. Senioe and a moron.
Lol! How dare you beat me to it!
Da nerve!!
Actually, it is a good, little story of people acting like human beings.
I’m surprised NBC reported it.
Everyone can get forgetful. This guy was lucky that Yellowday was honest; a rare find in The Rotten Apple.
He left his bag of hammers too
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