Altruism Fail, Pt One
In 1995, Tom and Trixie Cummins of Austin, Texas decided to do something to help homeless people in their area after being reduced to tears by a local television report about a canned food drive.
“We’d had a few drinks and immediately started gathering most of the tins we had in the kitchen, drove them down to the depot, and handed them over. I’d forgotten all about it until yesterday, when we were getting ready for a toga party and Trixie asked me to get her diamond necklace,” he told reporters.
“I picked up the fake Campbell’s soup can where we keep our valuables and tried to open it. I couldn’t twist the top off, but at first I just thought it was rusty, so I used a can opener to open the lid. But inside there was only scotch broth.
“I remember saying to Trixie ‘I don’t feel too good,’ just before I passed out.”
Although the Campbell’s Soup company volunteered to match Mr Cummins’s offer of $2,500 as a reward for its return, the can full of jewellery was never recovered.
“One good deed and I’m over $70,000 out of pocket,” said Mr Cummins, who was cautioned by police for spray-painting the words “robbing cheating scum” on the front windows of his insurance company.
“We’d had a few drinks and immediately started gathering most of the tins we had in the kitchen, drove them down to the depot, and handed them over. I’d forgotten all about it until yesterday, when we were getting ready for a toga party and Trixie asked me to get her diamond necklace,” he told reporters.
“I picked up the fake Campbell’s soup can where we keep our valuables and tried to open it. I couldn’t twist the top off, but at first I just thought it was rusty, so I used a can opener to open the lid. But inside there was only scotch broth.
“I remember saying to Trixie ‘I don’t feel too good,’ just before I passed out.”
Although the Campbell’s Soup company volunteered to match Mr Cummins’s offer of $2,500 as a reward for its return, the can full of jewellery was never recovered.
“One good deed and I’m over $70,000 out of pocket,” said Mr Cummins, who was cautioned by police for spray-painting the words “robbing cheating scum” on the front windows of his insurance company.
posted by Sod's Law at
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1 Comments:
The same thing happened to me. I kept my valuables in a fake Heinz Beans tin. I gave one aay to the homeless. Then I opened a tin, and found my grandmother-in-law's onyx necklaces and a bundle of Imperial shares in Crimean gold mines and National railroad shares (pre 1918).
Not much good now. And whose going to get me my beans back?
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