Airline worker returns $266,000 bag of lost jewelry - and he wasn't even JW

by Gopher 12 Replies latest social current

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  Gopher

  http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1243392.html

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A national jewelry store chain is looking for a "nice way'' to thank a Midwest Airlines employee who found a cargo bag with $266,000 worth of jewelry inside and took it to police.

  Robert Lewis, a ramp agent for the Milwaukee-based airline, said he saw the Brinks cargo bag in the middle of the street as he left Kansas City International Airport for home Monday night.

  Inside, Lewis found a 40-pound box marked "Helzberg Diamonds'' containing wedding rings, bands, sets and loose stones.

  "I saw all the rings,'' Lewis told Kansas City television station KMBC, "engagement rings, wedding rings, just unattached stone, diamonds, everything.''

  He said he briefly thought about keeping the bag, then decided to turn it over to police.

  The bag was being shipped to New Jersey.

  North Kansas City-based Helzberg Diamonds has its jewelry back and has promised to show the company's appreciation to Lewis.

  "I'm sure we'll come up with a nice way to thank him,'' said Helzberg Chief Executive Officer Marvin Beasley.

  Doesn't Mr. Lewis know that the world's maxim is "finders keepers"? Doesn't he know that since he isn't one of Jehovah's Witnesses (the world's only True Christians), that he didn't have to be honest and bring these jewels in so they could be returned to the owner?

  He probably just thought it would be too hard to sell them without anybody getting all suspicious. It couldn't have been just outright honesty.
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  misanthropic

  I don't know, it had to have been a JW. I remember when my parents went to NY to visit my sister and my dad lost his wallet full of credit cards and cash, it was turned in at the shop he lost it at. He said the person that turned it in must have been a witness.
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  R.F.

  Haha!! Good one!

  When we think back over all the years of publications and experiences of someone returning something missing and always glorifying the fact that somone says..."oh you must be a Jehovah's Witness to do this!"

  Like there are no honest people in the world outside the JW box.
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  Wordly Andre

  Ok you know what JW's are not all that honest

  I know this story of this JW elder who worked for a company owned by another JW and he charged up on the company credit for his personal use, thinking that it wouldn't be any big deal because the owner was a JW, seems like he just took advantage of the situation, the JW business owner refused to press charges, and fired the guy.

  Guess in the end he got away with it.
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  Gopher

  Very true Andre. In the Awake magazine, we'lll never read an experience like the one you mentioned. After all, that employee wasn't acting like a "real" Witness.

  The WT publications and JW meetings attempt to draw a contrast between themselves and the outside world - conveniently ignoring the fact they have scoundrels (even exploitative elders) inside their walls, and also ignoring the Robert Lewis types in the "world" -- actually there are a lot of honest folks out there.
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  LongHairGal

  I always knew that honest people come from all religions and backgrounds, not just JWs. JWs like to go around saying they are honest and by implication saying that everybody else is dishonest. They love to use all these anecdotal stories of JWs returning found money, etc. What they will not say is how many JWs knowingly defraud and con their so-called brothers. The sad part is that there are no statistics for this, just what you hear and know about personally. The reason for this is that JWs are discouraged from bringing their so-called brothers to court. So, the world never hears the truth.

  LHG
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  minimus

  A JW wouldn't have even thought about taking the goods.
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  nvrgnbk

  Thanks for this Gopher.

  I think this is evidence of just how far Satan will go to confuse God's one true people.

  When worldly people are doing things of this nature, we can arrive at only one conclusion.

  The end is near! And Satan will stop at nothing, even encouraging his agents to commit altruistic acts in an effort to

  throw us off balance.

  The only way to combat this satanic onslaught of good deeds is by increasing our preaching activity. We must

  explain to the people that only the righteous acts of Jehovah's Witnesses have any value.
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  juni

  Good for him...... I also would return it.

  The WT organizations wants you to believe that nothing is good in the "world".......... another tactic to keep the people "in". It's US against THEM.
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  Gopher

  nvrgnbk - I'll see you at the Kingdom Hall then, Sunday? I can't wait to be shoulder-to-shoulder with earth's only HONEST people !!!!!!