“Good Samaritan” returns $1-million purse and proves that money does not buy taste

I was surfing the web, as I am want to do, and came across the following story: Good Samaritan returns $1-million purse

The gist of it is this: a Toronto family, in California for a wedding, left a gen-u-ine Louis Vuitton purse filled with jewelry and cash on a bench while sightseeing. They did not realize this happened until they returned to their hotel room (let me editorialise here–if I was carrying around a purse with shit in it worth a million, I would be paying a whole lot more attention to the purse then I would the sights. Heather and I had to take a cool one thousand dollars out of the bank to get Ollie and we were the most paranoid people while we walked back to the car. This purse was worth a thousand times our withdrawal. We would have been paralysed…) . They returned to no purse. Longish story short: a guy found the purse and rather than liquidating the contents, he turned it into the police.

Here’s the best part though. The good samaritan though the million dollar jewelry was value-village quality:

Sausalito police said Mr. Suhrhoff had thought the bag contained costume jewellery.

Ah…just another confirmation that money does not buy taste.