29 November 2014
It's a backpack loaded up with Grants and Benjies too, any dough that you might need it's all inside for you
In the decade since he bought a small Burger King franchise on North Bascom Avenue, Altaf Chaus has rarely grappled with questions more existentially challenging than, "Would you like fries with that?" But this week, Chaus found himself at the center of a debate that was such an ethical whopper it quickly went national: What would you do if somebody walked out of your fast food restaurant $100,000 lighter, and never came back for the money? Just as Chaus was about to leave work Wednesday to celebrate his birthday, two employees brought him a backpack that had been abandoned in a booth, where it sat for hours under a sign that reminded diners to SAVOR EACH MOMENT. Eager to get to his Hayward home, Chaus unzipped the blue bag with brown piping, hoping to find a phone number so he could contact the rightful owner. "And then, whoosh," he said, "the money." The backpack contained US$100,000 in corpulent bundles of $100 and $50 bills. Only two weeks earlier, customers had stuck Chaus with three counterfeit $100 bills, so he had put up another sign - in his own handwriting - on the milkshake machine next to the cash register: NO $100 BILLS PLEASE. Now, suddenly, he was holding a bag full of them. The nearly universal first thought was, What would you do if you were him? Chaus was him, and he knew exactly what to do. He called the police. The owner should be lucky it wasn't me who found the bag, because if I had found $100,000, I wouldn't be turning it into the cops. My dad found NZ$10 on the ground one time before I was born, back when according to him, $10 was a lot of money. He made the mistake of turning it into the cop shop, but lucky for him nobody claimed it and it became his. Instead of making that same mistake, I would savour that moment like Chaus's sign says to and I would splurge like never before - one of the first things would be to take my niece and nephew to Peppa Pig World, which is a Peppa Pig-themed attraction at a theme park in England called Paultons Park. Also on my list, I would buy Sony's new e-paper watch, which was hiding in plain sight all along while rumors were circling about the new device. The wearable e-paper device, called the FES Watch, was under development through a company called Fashion Entertainments, which turned out to be associated with the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant, reports the Wall Street Journal. The wearable uses e-paper technology, such as the kind present on the $99 Pebble and the Amazon Kindle tablet. But instead of using e-paper just for the watch face, it uses it for both the face and its wristband surface. This lets the watch take on multiple designs and appearances with just the tap of a button. Though rumors of the device have surfaced only recently, it was sitting on a Japanese crowdfunding site as early as September, with the project raising more than US$23,000. Sony hasn’t confirmed a launch date for the watch, but the project’s crowdfunding site currently targets May 2015 for a release date, by which time if I had found that $100,000, I would've pretty much spent it all, and the small quantity of pot the cops also found in that bag would've been smoked long before then.
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