homeless man returns diamond ring.

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http://www.news.com.au/world-news/homel ... 6586810364

A HOMELESS man set to get $US145,000 for returning a woman's diamond engagement ring is uncomfortable at the attention he got and worries for a world shocked by his honesty

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/homel ... z2MG725CJu

Bless him. It shouldn't be a big deal when someone returns something that isn't theirs, but considering his circumstances he has more reason than most. A lot of people much better off would not bother, unfortunately thats what the world is coming to. Bless his cotton socks.

What's wrong with being honest? In the past I've found phones, credit cards and licences and hand them into the police station because it's the right thing to do and I know someone who lost it would appreciate that someone did the right thing with their property.

We need more people in the world like him. Wonderful!

Oh wow, what a great story!

(A little rock returned in town, plenty to buy in the desert)

A similar story made front page news in my local paper, last week.
http://www.rutherglenreformer.co.uk/rut ... -32886657/

Returning things like that is often the easiest thing to do. Also they probably have sentimental value to them that doesn't exist to you, if you keep them people might think you have stolen it, if it's very valuable and they're not that rich it would be a very bad thing for them and you can't let it happen, if they're very rich then they might afford to lose it but it probably has sentimental value and besides, if they were really rich they might reward you... once I found someone's mobile telephone and it was completely useless to me any way, so I brought it to a lost and found, I mean why keep it, I suppose some enterprising person can find a way to sell it to people who can use it but it would be lots of trouble and not worth it and then there's the fact that the easiest thing for everyone would be for people to return things and though you can't guarantee that your lost items will be returned better it is to not be part of the problem...

That homeless person could have said "that's a nice donation" and justified keeping it but if he did keep it what would he do with it. Unless he sells it it can't help him in any way, and selling it would bring lots of possible trouble. Some shady characters probably would have profited the most of it. It's better to tell those people that the ring was left with him so that if they really wanted to give it to him that this could be confirmed or in all likelihood, not.

I was wondering how he knew it was an accident. He said he saw how much it meant to her. Body language I assume. The lady was lucky the man didn't pawn it thinking she dropped it in the cup intentionally.