Comments on: Help! I have an ethical dilemma!

By: Nita

Nita — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:22:23 +0000

In posting a lost and found ad, you aren’t limited to “shiny” and “metal” in ID responses. You could ask them to identify the color (while silver and gold are the norm, keys come in other colors too), if it was a square or round head, the type of keychain, and whether there were other items on the chain. If someone lost their keys, they would be able to answer those questions, anyone else would just be guessing blindly and would be wrong on one of those points. Of course, now that a picture of the keys is out there, you can’t post an ad now.

By: hat

hat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:15:56 +0000

I have an alarm system with my new apartment and it came with a remote. It would cost me $100 if I lost it. So I registered at http://www.sendmehome.com/. I also registered my iPhone there too. Hooray anonymous!

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:20:01 +0000

Break them and then throw them away. If they’re broken they’re useless and no one will want them. Especially not murderous psychopaths searching through garbage for anonymous keys to use for ill will.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:04:15 +0000

I, for one, appreciate Eric’s posting something for us to argue about — it beats reloading realclearpolitics every five minutes! Cheers to his good humor.

By: Neener

Neener — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:32:44 +0000

Anyone who doesn’t like my posts are welcome to skip them and I mean that in the nicest way possible.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:32:26 +0000

Oh man, if I had a dime for every time someone asked for ten minutes of their life back following a conversation with me, I’d have gold plated teeth and use $100 bills as napkins.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if it is about me.

It’s all in good fun folks. When the stock market loses (or gains) double digit percentages every day, neighbors are being foreclosed on, and it seems that someone you know is losing their job every day–sometimes arguing about what to do about a set of keys is a welcome distraction.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:58:01 +0000

To a few of the commenters who have criticized Eric’s post, perhaps you guys should use more discretion in choosing what you read. You don’t have to read every single post and comment on PoP, if a posting looks too long or uninteresting to you, you can simply skip over it — I do it all the time. And I’d rather not have to read some of the snarky/critical/negative comments that certain posters feel the need to express every day, but you know what? People are free to write whatever they choose (within reason) and I either skip over them or read them and then get on with life instead of complaining about it (until now, this has been on my mind for awhile). Ok, off soapbox now. Sorry if that was snarky.

By: Anymouse

Anymouse — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:28:31 +0000

Make a copy of the keys then find the owner. Now you have a set of keys to someone else’s home! Party time…

By: PetworthRes

PetworthRes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:58:07 +0000

A friend of mine dropped her car keys -with remote – on the street near Sherman & Harvard last year. Needless to say, someone easily figured out which car was hers, and took it on a month of joyrides. Just when she was hoping to get the insurance check, it was found, in very sad shape.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:43:08 +0000

Id probably suggest just keeping them for awhile. There not a huge item to store or anything, and that way if someone does turn up, youll have them. Maybe wait a year or something, by then its probably pretty safe to toss em