Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/22/person-who-offered-500-for-lo.html
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Insisting on a reward when none was posted makes you the asshole.
Posting a reward and then refusing to give it out makes you the asshole.
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If you don’t want to pay the reward, don’t offer the reward and rely on the kindness of strangers. (See also: if you’re good at something don’t do it for free, unless you’re doing it for me.)
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Best be careful.
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Bingo, was going to post exactly the same.
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The cat now knows what it’s worth to it’s owner and will stare at her accordingly…
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If the finder still worry he may be an asshole he can always give the money to a cat shelter. He did say he doesn’t really need it anyway.
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“Well, uh, the reward posted was $500, so $320 gets you just under 2/3 of the cat. If you’d just like to mark the parts you want to keep using this Sharpie, we can start work on dividing her up immediately.”
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The saddest thing in this story is that his wife and family think he’s in the wrong.
ETA: Actually, endjinn points out I was incorrect, his wife is on his side, it’s her’s and his parents who disagree with him.
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Everyone here is an asshole, from what I can tell. Other than maybe the cat, the kids, and the parents of the finders.
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This happened to me with a smaller reward, IIRC about $100.
I was out walking and spotted a cat that was posted on some local “missing” flyers. I couldn’t physically grab her as she kept retreating, so I called the number and the owner came out to meet me and successfully picked up the cat after I led her to it.
No reward given, the excuse being I didn’t physically hand over the cat with my own two hands.
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Cats are always assholes.
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If the heart attack happens, will McDonald’s collect?
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I guess the reward is mainly to get someone to pay attention to the poster.
Nonetheless, the number you put on the poster should be the amount you’re willing to pay for that attention.
There could be better ways to get one’s attention, but distraught people aren’t necessarily thinking all that straight, which is why places like funeral homes (pest eradicators, locksmiths/lockout specialists, emergency plumbers, woo “doctors,” etc.) can easily bilk their customers.
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Or would Pelosi and Schiff get a share? They seem to have increased his stress level.
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The issue is really the establishment of douchebaggery. Because there was a reward for said cat, it should have been offered when the pet was returned, and it would have been up to the person returning the cat to say “no, it’s okay, I don’t need the money” if indeed it didn’t matter to them. But because the people who posted a reward didn’t offer it, it made it matter to the finders of the cat because the owners set the ground rules for the return. I wonder how they would have responded had the finders said, "well, we will just hold onto the cat until you pay the full reward. Now that would have been entirely dickish in a 20/20 kind of way, but that’s only because we know the owners of the cat would stiff them out the reward after the fact.
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I think that might be illegal.
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That’s literally writing check you can’t cash
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