To the person of conscience (formerly thieving asshole) who decided the picture of the dog meant more to us than it could to them: thank you. Recognizing the worth of property to other people and respecting that worth is one of the first steps along the road to principle. Everyone at sometime makes impulsive decisions. Those people on the way to becoming truly adult recognize a mistake and take action to correct it. You rock, and you’re now one of the reasons I can’t give up believing in people. THAT makes me feel even better. —You’re now why I can’t give up on people.
This article appears in Aug 29 – Sep 4, 2013.
It’s good to see some consciousness and humanity from a thief to get stolen item back to it’s rightful owner.
Nice ending. Never ascribe to malice that which is most readily explained by temporary stupidity – a condition which allows for the making of genuine amends.
well, I would say that humanity as a whole still is beyond redemption. however this one person has repaired what he did.
I am not Jehovah, and one turnaround doesn’t save the lot.
It’s funny, I’ve read both of your posts and I can’t help but feel that it would have been more useful initially to appeal to to the “thief” and indicate the importance of the painting to you and your bar; instead you bitched about how awful people in Halifax are, and insulted a large portion of your clientele (University students).
I have never worked in a bar, but I am sure things go missing all of the time; most of them are of no value in any sense. It is only in your second post, that you say the art meant a lot to you and other people – this is the most important point!
I’m not condoning the “thieft”, and I know you have it back, but I can almost be certain that the initial inflammatory post was unseen by the perpetrator, or at least I doubt it influenced them.