blind man drops $20. women takes it and won't give it back. WTF!

[Liberal_in_LA]

Dairy Queen Manager's Class Act Wins Praise
He stands up for blind man, forks over own money


(Newser) – A teenage Dairy Queen manager in Hopkins, Minnesota, qualifies as the new poster boy for basic human decency. Joey Prusak, 19, was serving a blind customer when the man dropped a $20 bill without knowing it, reports WCCO-TV. The woman in line behind him quickly picked it up and ... tucked it in her purse. Prusak asked her to give it back, she refused, and the teen eventually kicked her out: “I told her, ‘Ma’am, you can either return the $20 bill or you can leave the store, because I’m not going to serve someone as disrespectful as you.'" She left, and then came the kicker: Prusak went over to the table of the blind man and gave him $20 out of his own pocket.

"I was just doing what I thought was right," Prusak tells AP. "I did it without even really thinking about it." The story is getting attention only because a customer who saw what happened emailed the store to praise Prusak's actions. The owner posted it on the employee cork board, a fellow worker snapped a photo and posted it on Facebook, and it's been going viral ever since. Prusak even got a call from none other than Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway company owns Dairy Queen. "He called and thanked me for being a role model for all the other employees and people in general," says Prusak. As for all the big tips he's been getting as a result of the publicity, that money's going to charity.


http://www.newser.com/story/174550/dairy-queen-managers-class-act-wins-praise.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top

[malaise]

1. What he did was very nice but he should have called

the police - that woman is a criminal - that was theft.

What have we become as human - good effin' grief.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Quite the contrast to Glen James, homeless angel who returned $40,000 he found in a backpack.

Last edited Thu Sep 19, 2013, 10:58 PM - Edit history (1)

How nice that he was rewarded!

Donations escalate for Glen James, honest homeless man who returned backpack with cash

By Melissa Hanson, Globe Correspondent

One good deed inspires another, it appears.

After Glen James, a homeless Boston man, returned a backpack full of about $40,000 in cash and travelers checks to its owner, a fund-raiser for the good Samaritan, with a goal of raising $50,000, was set up by a Midlothian, Va., man who has never been to Boston.

In under 24 hours, the “GoFundMe” website, made by Ethan Whittington, 27, raised more than $20,000.
Glen James (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)

“It started with wanting to help a someone in a small way, and now we can help them in a large way,” said Whittington, who found James’s story on the Internet yesterday. He set up the account around 3 or 4 p.m. After tweeting the link to the page a few times, Whittington said the donations started pouring in. He decided that because James returned $40,000, he deserved $50,000




- See more at: http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/09/17/donations-escalate-for-glen-james-honest-homeless-man-who-returned-backpack-with-cash/Ihep71DHA7plR9t7l6RRHI/story.html#sthash.4xNg0IWU.dpuf

[malaise]

7. Every day we see decent people doing the right thing

and most of the time they are people who could most use the loot they find,,and then there are heartless scumbags like that woman.

[madokie]

12. Or shitbag repuliCON congress critters trying to cut food stamps

for those who need the help

[malaise]

13. madokie I am so angry about that vote today that

I went for a walk to calm down.

[madokie]

16. If it wasn't for

the people throwing their votes away because of gays, guns and abortions we'd not have any pukes in office today. Despicable assholes, both those who vote for them and the pukes too.
I really have no use for either. At one time in my life I could look past a persons political leanings but not anymore.

[malaise]

17. What's frightening is that some of the people they fugged royally today

will vote for them net year.

[madokie]

18. Exactly

I'm not sure how anyone can square that round hole but some do

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. and those who didn't vote cuz they're angry at PBO.

And dems who just "werent sure" (thank you CorporateNewsfotainment)

This culture is visibly split between ethical and animalistic.

[Aerows]

40. Stealing from a blind person is a new low

I can't even imagine how heartless you would have to be to do that.

[malaise]

44. Yes that really is a new low

In my world she'd be banished.

[Aerows]

58. Mine, too

What is wrong with some people?

[whopis01]

25. $40,000.00 - not $4,000.00... n/t

[NYC_SKP]

26. Holy Cow! I fixed it.

Thanks!

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. thanks for posting this. going in to read it

[Enthusiast]

38. Awesome story, NYC_SKP! Plus one!

[TexasProgresive]

19. These days you never know what calling the police might cause.

The might arrest the woman or they might feel threatened by the blind man and pump 47 rounds of 9mm into him.

[malaise]

20. You have a point

[lunasun]

29. the young manager would maybe step out toward them when they arrived to fill them in on the trouble

but could be perceived as a threat by the police also!
he did OK on his own and that lady is scum- did she show up on a security camera?-wish they would facebook that and out her face to the town.

[CrispyQ]

60. "wish they would facebook that and out her face to the town."

Me too. Behavior like that needs to be shamed. I wonder if other customers witnessed this? I would have started chanting, "Give it back! Give it back!"

Kudos to the young man for calling her out. And a special shout out for making it up out of his own pocket.

[Tigress DEM]

37. Shudder

God bless Texas.

[Enthusiast]

39. Yeah. The blind man might make the wrong gestures toward the cops.

They might interpret the gestures as threatening.

[KamaAina]

61. And if it was in Iowa, he might be armed

[vduhr]

65. I believe you are correct.

I think that, when you find money and you know who it belongs to and you don't return it, it IS theft, i.e. you saw the person drop it, or it's in a wallet with identification, a bag with the banks name on it, an envelop with a name or business, etc.

[Niceguy1]

78. in cali

The police dont have time for that.

[yodermon]

3. If this was Wal-Mart I'm sure they'd find a reason to fire the kid for doing that n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

10. I dropped a $20 bill at Wal-Mart earlier this year

I was halfway to the exit when someone said "Hey, you're dropping some money!". I looked around and found 3 dollar bills, but couldn't find the $20 that I had received in change. So I went back to the cashier, and learned that a lady had found the $20 and had given it to the cashier, who then returned it to me

[Boom Sound 416]

4. Good for him

Charity idea is great, but he's earned the right to take the first $20.

It so great when we're given the opportunity to do the right thing in an impersonal situation.

On edit:

It would be nice to see warren open the wallet and match what's raised.

[elehhhhna]

5. Hopkins, MN, home of Mystery Science Theatre 3000

kewl kid there

[Blue_Tires]

51. +3000

[Precisely]

6. awesome

[rurallib]

8. woman sounds like a model republican to me.

[Barack_America]

15. There's the right thing to do and the Right thing to do.

They seldom agree.

[dflprincess]

21. +1

[mimi85]

27. +2 It's a shame

that something like this even makes the news. It should be routine. Sad.

[sakabatou]

33. +1

[Alkene]

45. Isn't stealing from the blind consistent with Objectivism?

I need to ask because I find myself intentionally ignorant of an amateur philosophy embracing the virtues of flinty-hearted greed and self-promotion.

[grantcart]

72. Lol well played

I would guess the answer depends on who lost and who found the $ 20.

"In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O'Connor (her husband was Frank O'Connor).

As Michael Ford of Xavier University's Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote, “In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.”

[beerandjesus]

49. Yeah! And when she left, she probably said,

"Well, I'm running late for church anyway!"

[senseandsensibility]

9. Love to hear positive stories about young people.

And, on that note, I just saw a teenager at a restaurant where I dined tonight sitting alone in a booth. As I was being seated, I walked by and saw him poring over his binder paper in a three ring notebook. He was studying meticulously handwritten Math notes. I think he was waiting for his mom (a waitress) to get off work, because he never ordered anything. He kept studying for the hour or so that we were there. The notes looked like calligraphy, and call me old fashioned, but it made me happy that kids still take notes by hand like that.

[BainsBane]

11. That's not Minnesota nice.

The young man, on the other hand, rocks.

[gopiscrap]

14. what a wonderful guy...the woman was a shit head!

and that's also petty theft by the way and in some courts there is an enhancement if conviction becuase the victim was a vulnerable individual.

[TRoN33]

22. I have a similar story to share...

When I was around 20 years old, that night I was going on way to become dead broke yet I went on ahead to rent a movie and bought Tombstone supreme pizza along with Kemp 1% chocolate milk. After purchase the goods, I found $20 on the floor. When I picked it up, I never hesitate to give it to the store clerk. She took it and put it on the counter behind her. Here a kicker; a guy beside me told me to go ahead and keep it. I never did. Now here the real kicker, my mom later told me that store clerk said a guy came back in, very broke father of few kids, frantically asking for 20 he lost earlier. She recognized him from earlier that evening and gave it back to him. My mom know this guy and she said that he is very carefully budgeted person and couldn't survive without that $20. My mom gave me a hug and said that she is proud that she raised me right. She called me Honest Abe that night. I never looked back or having any second thought.

Wanna know the awesome part? I'm Minnesotan also, proud to uphold the reputation of Minnesotan Nice and its happened in my childhood hometown New London, MN.

[calimary]

34. What a great story, TRoN33!

Thank you - and thank you for sharing it. I LOVE these things when they have happy endings! Happy endings for the deserving. Which is as it should be.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. great story

[renate]

55. your mom must have been SO happy and proud!

Wonderful story!

[tblue]

23. Buffet should give him a reward

and give the blind man free meals for a year or two. They want him to keep coming there.

But that is a lovely story. Really makes my day!

[Snake Plissken]

24. How did the woman who stole the man's money not end up in jail, is it only illegal to steal from ...

is it only illegal to steal from corporations? If you found an item worth $20 on the floor in Walmart and placed in your pocket then walk out the store, you'd see more jail time than Tom Delay did.

[TorchTheWitch]

42. That was the first thing I wondered

That kid should have called the police. What that woman did was outright theft, and she should have been arrested. Though the kid was certainly more than generous in giving the man $20 out of his own pocket technically what he did was not correct. Rather than throwing the woman out of the store he should have at least threatened her that he was going to call the police for her stealing the man's money (and had he done so she likely would have given it back) and if she didn't give it back then call the police. You don't let a customer steal from another one without getting police involved and allow the thief to just walk out the door.

[totodeinhere]

48. In most places a call to the police over the theft of $20 will not be a high priority. If they did

call the police by the time the police arrived the woman probably would have been long gone.

[Eric J in MN]

52. Good point.

If he called the cops, would he also try to prevent the woman from leaving? If he did, it would then be his word against hers, and she could accuse him of unlawfully detaining her.

I think he did the right thing by not involving the police.

[defacto7]

28. I wonder if Joey would have voted for

the "Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act" ?

I sincerely doubt it.

Good job Joey!

[cui bono]

30. Very nice of him. And also of the customer who emailed about it.

That's why I try to make it a point to let managers/bosses know when their employees did an exceptional job. I've done it many times. I don't know the results of it, but I like to let it be known when someone does a great job and is especially helpful.

[rl6214]

31. It's what you do when people aren't watching that speaks volumes

No one would have known if the other customer hadn't seen and told the story.

I was shopping at Kmart today and came across a wallet in a cart at he cart return area. If I wasn't raised right I would have stuck it in my pocket and been on my way. I did the right thing though even though no one was around and took it to the service desk.

[TorchTheWitch]

43. spy cameras are always around

Don't think it wouldn't be known that you stole the wallet (if you did) just because no one saw you do it. If the person with the missing wallet had gone back to the store security would have checked their footage including the parking lot and likely been able to peg you. Stupid thieves always seem to forget about the security cameras and get nailed by them all the time.

[rl6214]

71. Oh, you're absolutely tight

For good or for bad, those cameras are everywhere.

[Cha]

36. ...

For happy human acts of kindness!

Mahalo Liberal in LA

[Warren DeMontague]

41. For some reason, I can't get this mental image out of my head:

"Fuck you, Blindy!"

[frylock]

68. why drag steve buscemi into this?

[Warren DeMontague]

69. ***

My Peter Lorre comment a while back survived a jury, but barely. Fair warning.

[HappyMe]

46. Now that's a great kid.

Stealing from a blind guy is about the lowest thing you can do. Do a shitty thing, and shitty things come back to you.

[Dorian Gray]

47. Aw

What a good kid Wish more people were like him.

Sadly, too many people are like that woman.

[heaven05]

50. evil balanced by good.

great for cosmic karma. Great for Joey's karma. It helps to have good people on the case. Gives me a little, ittty bitty hope that we'll muddle through.

[Daniel537]

53. Good guy, but that piece of garbage thief needs to be behind bars.

I hope there was a camera in there that caught that pigs mug.

[bigwillq]

56. Great kid!

[joeybee12]

57. Cheers to this kid!

[colorado_ufo]

59. Thi is a great man;

employers take note!

[grahamhgreen]

62. USA drops 16 trillion. Banks take it and won't give it back! LOL!

[Half-Century Man]

63. In spite of my disdain of humanity in general, I know we are better than I give us credit for.

I dwell on the negative too much. So, when events like this come into the light, I am delighted.
Praise the young man, ignore the morally broken woman, thank the alerting customer, and remember this as the example for correct social interaction.

[TeamPooka]

64. Next time call the police on the lady

[yuiyoshida]

66. k&r

[polichick]

67. I love that kid! k&r

[sinkingfeeling]

70. Saw the story on GMA this morning. Great kid!!

[oberliner]

73. You can be a manager of a Dairy Queen at age 19?

That's pretty wild.

[DallasNE]

74. Another Link With A Little More Detail

That I came across yesterday.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130919/MONEY/130918477/1685

[callous taoboy]

75. I dropped $80 at the grocery store and this guy picks it up.

I had just gotten that $80 as a tip from driving a limo wine tour with a demanding group, was at the store picking up dinner. The money was in a shirt pocket with my phone. Phone rings, must've pulled the dough out with my phone. I answer and turn away from the guy slowly approaching with his cart to the spot where I had answered the phone. It's a 30 second phone call, put phone in pocket, money gone! Shit! The guy with the cart is out of there. I look everywhere; under the shelves, on the shelves, every pocket five times.

That stung for a bit, realizing that guy got my dough, but then I hope he really needed it. It was dishonest, but maybe the dude really needed it. Oh well. Got a decent tip the next weekend.

That is a really heart-warming story about Mr. Prusak, though. What a damned decent fellow.

[Liberal_in_LA]

79. that sucks

[David__77]

76. A hopital I've gone to has a blind cashier in the cafeteria.

And when you hand a bill to him, he simply asks when type of bill it is, and then gives you the change. Someone could easily lie, but I simply cannot imagine anyone doing it.

[snagglepuss]

77. Isn't that theft? That said kudos to the young manager. nt