[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 04:59:03 EDT
I'm in a city of roughly 70,000 pop in mis-Missouri and I ALWAYS lock my car
-- my husband doesn't and he and his daughter have had 3 cd players ripped
out of their vehicles as a result. We used to have a very large black mutt
dog whom we took in because his owner, who used him for hunting (he was part
hound, part doby, I think) abandoned him. He also probably abused him. The
dog was viciously protective of the property and I never had to lock my front
door. Once we found the furniture in the foyer upended all over the place and
one piece drug as close to the door as possible. We believe someone tried
to come in in our absence and the snarling large dog encouraged them to make
as quick a get-away as they could. In the absence of said dog I would NEVER
leave my house unlocked, or my car. My husband used to live in a town of
11,000 before we got married; sort of a modern Mayberry. He never locked his
house or his truck. He's adjusting.....and even there, now, he will lock his
office when leaving, which always stood open.
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
Date: 8/4/05 5:35:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _pas@xxxxxxxxx
(mailto:pas@xxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The segment showed Tokyo, a city of seven million people. There is one
place in the city where all items found are to be turned in. It showed
thousands
and thousands of umbrellas. It also featured a number of people who had lo
st their wallets. The norm here is that when the owner goes to retrieve it,
all the money is there. In one case, a fellow found almost $300,000 near a
dump. He turned it in. One man said he had forgotten to take the keys out of
his motorcycle three times in the several months he had lived there. The
motorcycle was never stolen.
One needn't go all the way to Japan for this kind of behaviour. I NEVER lock
my car in my driveway. NOTHING is ever stolen, the car is never stolen.
SHOULD it be? Is that what people EXPECT? I dropped my keys once and went to
the
copshop the next morning -- they were there. My buddy dropped his cellphone
on Friday night and someone actually found out where he lived and returned it.
Is that actually surprising.
paul
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Leamington, ON. Canada
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