Brutal owning of Wisconsin garbage man.

[wisconsinBB]

osted November 7, 2007

$10K diamond earrings found by garbage man

Post-Crescent services

MADISON — Ron Lund wasn’t surprised when he heard a jewelry store accidentally threw out a pair of diamond earrings worth $10,000, but he was surprised when he found them.


Lund, who works for Pellitteri Waste, picks up garbage from more than 130 businesses, including a jewelry store.

Lund said he knew where the store’s items fell in his load, so that helped narrow the search.

He grabbed a bag and found the earrings inside. The search took about eight minutes.

The jewelry store owner gave Lund $80 as a reward.

[JasonH]

If the search took eight minutes and he got $80, that's 10 bucks a minute - not bad going for doing fuck all I say.

[Livewire]

If the search took eight minutes and he got $80, that's 10 bucks a minute - not bad going for doing fuck all I say.

Good call.  I have a friend named BigJ who spends all day digging in garbage, and he doesn't make a cent.

[JasonH]

Good call.  I have a friend named BigJ who spends all day digging in garbage, and he doesn't make a cent.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hilarious. 

[tommywishbone]

Note to self: Rob that cheap-ass jewelry store tomorrow.

[nycbull]

It's Wisconsin, what do you expect? 

[dorkeroo]

osted November 7, 2007

$10K diamond earrings found by garbage man

Post-Crescent services

MADISON — Ron Lund wasn’t surprised when he heard a jewelry store accidentally threw out a pair of diamond earrings worth $10,000, but he was surprised when he found them.


Lund, who works for Pellitteri Waste, picks up garbage from more than 130 businesses, including a jewelry store.

Lund said he knew where the store’s items fell in his load, so that helped narrow the search.

He grabbed a bag and found the earrings inside. The search took about eight minutes.

The jewelry store owner gave Lund $80 as a reward.

Sorry you got ripped off so badly man. Next time maybe think twice before doing something like that again 

[The Luke]

Proper decorum dictates that a reward be at least a tithing of the value of the object recovered (that's 10%)... anything less is a affront to the dignity of those who do the decent, honest thing. In situations where the favour does not have a pecuniary value, the compensation should be commensurate with the benefit to the beneficiary... put should be refused in situations where the beneficiary cannot afford the gratuity.

This is the biggest problem I see with Americans... they have no understanding of how to behave with class.


The Luke

[Zach Trowbridge]

Proper decorum dictates that a reward be at least a tithing of the value of the object recovered (that's 10%)... anything less is a affront to the dignity of those who do the decent, honest thing. In situations where the favour does not have a pecuniary value, the compensation should be commensurate with the benefit to the beneficiary... put should be refused in situations where the beneficiary cannot afford the gratuity.

Quoted from the Code of Duello, circa 1774.

[bigkid]

$80 reward?  No wonder people never turn stuff in.

[Andre Nickatina]

Ridiculous.

[TooPowerful4u]

Fucking idiot.  Shoulda kept them and pawned them.  Did he really think the owner would do something decent and give him a decent reward.  YEA RIGHT. 

[dr.chimps]

Quoted from the Code of Duello, circa 1774.

LOL. Good callback. I remember that like it was yesterday.... 

[Croatch]

Chances are, he doesn't need the money anyways.  Garbage men make @150 grand a year.

[The Luke]

Quoted from the Code of Duello, circa 1774.

...eh, no it wasn't.

Us Europeans can actually write prose ourselves... it's called an education.

There's the second thing that's wrong with America right there... poor edumacation.



The luke

[Zach Trowbridge]

...eh, no it wasn't.

Us Europeans can actually write prose ourselves... it's called an education.

There's the second thing that's wrong with America right there... poor edumacation.



The luke

Clearly the joke went over your head.  Ask the class for help and perhaps somebody will explain it to you.

[gordiano]

Chances are, he doesn't need the money anyways.  Garbage men make @150 grand a year.

The ones on Getbig do....

[ManBearPig...]

...eh, no it wasn't.

Us Europeans can actually write prose ourselves... it's called an education.

There's the second thing that's wrong with America right there... poor edumacation.



The luke

did that superior European education get you out of your mom's basement yet, Teh Luke?
ha ha, us Americans are so stupid but we all have big houses and nuclear weapons!!!!

You're so short!!! Ha ha !!

[Jizzacked]

thats probably half of the markup they would even see on those stones.... brutal razor thin margins on a shit commodity.  buy a 10k diamond for your lady and see what you can sell it for 

[The Luke]

did that superior European education get you out of your mom's basement yet, Teh Luke?
ha ha, us Americans are so stupid but we all have big houses and nuclear weapons!!!!

You're so short!!! Ha ha !!

...so very true.

A friend of mine stayed in college to do a PhD in computational quantum mechanics... five years of hard graft later he finally has his doctorate... and he's pedaling tourists around Dublin city centre in a rickshaw for tips: no jobs in this shithole country.

Myself, I'm seriously considering emigrating to the US, you guys have it good...



The Luke

[chaos]

...eh, no it wasn't.

Us Europeans can actually write prose ourselves... it's called an education.

There's the second thing that's wrong with America right there... poor edumacation.



The luke

Aren't you the little guy with the ponytail that lives with his parents and hunts bigfoot?

[The Luke]

Yep... unfortunately that's me.



The Luke

[TooPowerful4u]

Chances are, he doesn't need the money anyways.  Garbage men make @150 grand a year.

Actually in NYC they make 80

[The_Schofeild_Kid]

Actually in NYC they make 80

and in staten island they make MILLIONS... wink wink.

[Bast000]

Fucking idiot.  Shoulda kept them and pawned them.  Did he really think the owner would do something decent and give him a decent reward.  YEA RIGHT. 

Do you steal?