Sometimes you actually do get to eat the bear....
 

So for about the 50th time in a row, I find out we are
having an after-hours meeting tonight at the last minute,
as I am walking out the door. Actually it is good, since it
gives me justification for leaving early on Friday and driving
to NO.

I was also tasked with going to pick up the food, which made me
even madder, driving halfway across Memphis at 4:15 pm.
On the way back there is a guy on a Harley-Davidson Trike,
and he is showing off to the girl in at the stoplight next to him and
peels out at the green light. He gets about 50 feet down the road
and all of his money comes FLYING out of his breast pocket.
The new traineee in the truck with me is SHOCKED when I lock up the
brakes and pull into the turning lane..."you aren't gonna STOP are you?"
I said "you damn right I am...if you don't need the money, you can stay
in the truck" and I bail out to go and collect all this money blowing
around the street. He comes out right after me and collects $80,
but he was willing to dodge traffic. I just picked up what was in the
turning lane or close thereby. I only got $50. But for once, the bear
didn't EAT ME!

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:lr Karma is great, that's what he gets!

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Right place, right time, one maroon with $130 less in his pocket. :)

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:r :r :r

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LoL funny story... thanks for sharing...

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Right on, free money doen't suck!

Kind of like the insurance commercial with the guy made out of money riding around. I'd follow that everywhere.

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Sad part was he pulled into Wendy's...I hate to see what happened at the drive through

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Your partner, However, needs to watch out... no one wants to see some Man Vs. Car action... Definitely not over only 30 bucks...

Your move was a good one tho.... So what cigars/stuff you buying with your free 50?

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I guess the Karmically balanced question would be...

Did you give the man back his hard earned money?

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So, you did follow him and give him his money back, right?

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He peeled out from the light and sped away. He pulled off the road and I was in a company car with food that
the entire company's employees were waiting on. I couldn't go and track him down. I thought he pulled
in to a Wendy's, but one thing is for sure, he had no idea he had lost his money. And no, all things being equal,
he was not getting the money back. Twice in the last month I have done the right thing, giving back a
ten when a guy gave me change for a $20 and I only gave him $10. I got a $1650 full frame digital SLR and
sent it back to the company in return for the $139 camera I actually ordered. They had no idea they had erred.

His lost money was an idiot tax for peeling out on his Harley Trike and endangering my life. The karmic balance
gave me $50 for the two times I did the karmically correct in the past 30 days. If you always give the money back,
what is the point of karma? If when you do the right thing over and over again, and don't take the money on the
third time, the karmic wheel just spins. Eventually it LANDS ON YOUR SPACE.

As a preacher, Ida thought the rev would get it. I KNOW you used the story of the guy on his roof in the flood
in your sermons. God sent the four wheel drive truck, the boat and the helicopter and he DID provide, but the idiot
just stayed on his roof waiting for the Lord to provide.

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OMG it was me! I can describe it, it was US Currency right? :r

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Agreed, kind of wish things like this happened to morons on the road more often instead of innocent people.

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A couple years ago the cops were trying to pull over a car here in SD, the guy got on the highway and started throwing cash out the window, Tens of thousands of dollars, no one knows how much, cars stopping all over the highway and people picking up cash. (As I recall the car they were trying to pull over got away)

Never did find out who they were or where the money came from, guessing drugs, but they asked people to turn in any money they picked up ... yah I'm sure that worked, people were grabbing it off the ground while the tv stations interviewed them :r

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I gotta go with the Rev... I'm a firm believer in the golden rule. Most "Revs" don't subscribe to the hindu/buddhist teaching of karma.