A reason to leave your car door unlocked

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Updated: 1:27 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2005
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Imagine getting off the train after work and finding a $15,000 diamond ring in your car.

A Westborough, Mass., man says that’s what happened to him.

It seems the ring was left in his unlocked car by a total stranger, heartbroken over a lost love.


The ring came in a box topped with a white bow. A note with it read: “Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now.”

The finder told police about the ring after having it appraised.

Police say they have no idea where the ring came from or who left it. For now, it’s finders, keepers.


Alexander
Board of Directors
Lincolns of Distinction

RE: A reason to leave your car door unlocked

WHOA! THAT WAS JUST PLAIN DUMB, I RETURNED THE RING THAT I BOUGHT FOR MY NOW EX-GIRLFRIEND AND GOT MY MONEY BACK. I ACTUALLY BOUGHT SOME NEW PARTS FOR MY LSC WITH SOME OF THE MONEY. HEARTBREAK OR NOT THATS ALOT OF MONEY TO JUST GIVE AWAY, THAT GUY SHOULD HAVE RETURNED THE RING AND BOUGHT A MARK!

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WHOA! THAT WAS JUST PLAIN DUMB, I RETURNED THE RING THAT I BOUGHT FOR MY NOW EX-GIRLFRIEND AND GOT MY MONEY BACK. I ACTUALLY BOUGHT SOME NEW PARTS FOR MY LSC WITH SOME OF THE MONEY. HEARTBREAK OR NOT THATS ALOT OF MONEY TO JUST GIVE AWAY, THAT GUY SHOULD HAVE RETURNED THE RING AND BOUGHT A MARK!
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A broken heart can make you do all kinds of things (I know).

$15,000.00 may not have meant that much to the former owner. My wife's ring was just under $10,000.00 at a

John "Former-Rich-Guy-Turned-Broke-Dude" Dancy

RE: A reason to leave your car door unlocked

Who says it was the guy that left the ring?

RE: A reason to leave your car door unlocked

maybe the car owner had the notorious bumper sticker:

"practice random acts of kindness"

I wish we knew what kind of car it was.

convertible?(many owners leave the doors unlocked to prevent people from cutting the top to gain entry)

early 80's Volvo station wagon with tree-hugger type bumper stickers?

Big caddy with large back seat for fat thief who stole the ring, and couldnt run any farther, so he needed a place to "hide out", found the large car unlocked, stashed the ring incase anyone found him sitting there with the evidence, left the note incase he couldnt get back to the car in time to take the ring back out.

a very kind, broken-hearted generous human being who doesnt place a monetary value on the love he lost. The ring was a symbol of his/her passion for another human being, and whence it was lost, returning the ring would be symbolic of returning his/her love for the other and feelings so deep cannot be reimbursed.


...the last seems even more far-fetched in this day and age, than the other three examples. The world has changed...fairytales no longer exist, which is why this story *seems* so odd.

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a very kind, broken-hearted generous human being who doesnt place a monetary value on the love he lost. The ring was a symbol of his/her passion for another human being, and whence it was lost, returning the ring would be symbolic of returning his/her love for the other and feelings so deep cannot be reimbursed
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OMG!
I'm shedding a tear over this one.
I'm hearing Babs in the background singing, "The Way We Were".

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Please, no woman on earth would give up a diamond like that.