No Good Deed Goes Unpublished

[hausdok]

You'll all love this tidbit from JLC Update.

A remodeling contractor finds a bunch of cash hidden in a wall and agrees to split it with the owner. Months later, he's going to court to get his share after the owner turned out to be a welcher.

To read more click here.

[Jesse]

Closest I've ever come to that: used condoms in a kneewall attic.

[mthomas1]

How did you and the owner decide who got which?

[Jesse]

I'm an honorable man. I didn't take a thing.

[hausdok]

Originally posted by Jesse

Closest I've ever come to that: used condoms in a kneewall attic.

Ugh,

You just reminded me of a barracks search warrant I executed back in 1982 at Ft. Devens. The dude had been dealing dope at the NCO club. I went in there and I scored a couple of joints in order to get the warrant. We went down there with the drug dogs and tore that room apart and found his stash. The room had a suspended ceiling. I looked up, went aha!, climbed up on a desk, pushed up the tiles over the desk, and about a dozen used condoms fell right on top of my head. Gross!

The thing was, this was a men's floor in the barracks and there were only two guys in the room. That was in the days before don't ask don't tell. In the end, one got busted for dealing, they both confessed to sodomy - if you know what I mean - and were put out of the Army.

My partner and that dog handler must have laughed for 10 minutes. The worst part was, I did double duty as the Evidence Custodian and I had to keep the "evidence" in the evidence room for about 4 months while things played out.

Bleah!

Maybe 5 years ago, I discovered a cigar box of baseball cards in an attic. I told the realtor about them. Turned out the seller had forgotten about hiding them there. When I found out how much some baseball cards are worth, I had the same feeling I had after I turned down a $50,000 bribe from a Korean blackmarketeer; kind of a helpless sick to your stomach sensation while telling yourself, "Steady, you did the right thing."

OT - OF!!!

M.

[chrisprickett]

I once found about 200 early 20th century milk bottles (which I collect) buried in a cavity under the stairs of a home I was remodeling. The homeowners gave me two. I suppose I should be grateful...