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Personal Finance Links (Witnessing a Crime? Edition)

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This past weekend the wife and I went to the drive-in again. We had read on Yelp about how people stop by a local Italian pizzeria and get strombolis to eat with the movie. It was rated so high, we had to give it a shot.

The wait for the stromboli was long, but at least there was entertainment. A walked into the pizza place, went up to the counter and said, “I have some $1200 speakers still wrapped with the tags on them. I’ll sell it to you for $100.” He points outside to a lady with a shopping cart with the speakers. He couldn’t have made it more obvious that the goods were stolen. The guy behind the counter called over a co-worker and told him the story. I thought the co-worker would call the police, but instead, he went out to inspect the merchandise.

Looking back on this situation, I wondering if I should have taken action. I was so surprised/entertained by the whole thing, that my brain was operating at a “fire bad, tree pretty” level. Perhaps that situation is common place for some, but for me this was highly unusual. Should I have called the police? I’m not very familiar with San Jose police numbers and it clearly wasn’t a 911 situation. Is leaving it to the pizzeria owner a good course of action. After all, it his business and his employee participating. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

[Note: The movie, Bridesmaids, was worse than I thought. I thought it was supposed to be funny. It was just sad. If you are forced to go to a wedding movie, opt for Something Borrowed it is at least 10 times better on the Lazy Man’s Imprecise Quantification Scale.]

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