Legacy

Justice can take many an unusual turn as it plays itself out.  its the current year 2012 and Gold prices are at an all time  high.  Many TV commercials are advising people to buy Gold as a safe and wonderful investment.  Some of us wonder why if it’s such a good thing to have, why don’t the sellers just keep it and reap all the benefits.  I guess there are no common sense answers to some questions.

In addition to all the TV commercials from sellers, there seems to be an equal number from buyers, who want your old gold coins, jewelry, and even old teeth fillings. The buyers, especially one Joseph Ginstein are out in full force.  Now Joseph is a traveling gold buyer who goes from city to city.  He gets a lot of people to sell their old jewelry and so forth to him.  And he’s rapidly becoming wealthy.

People flock to him because he advertises in the local newspaper when he hits town that he will be set up in some well known hotel or motel room and will be paying current spot for gold.  When asked where’s the profit in paying full spot.  Joseph would always reply he wants to do right by people and hopes future rising prices might afford him a small profit.

Now if you aren’t set up to smelt your own gold, then you have to run it through a processor who takes a heavy percentage.  So anyone that knows anything knows paying spot is not what a smart buyer does, but a smart seller to would be investors does.  The sucker (whoops! I mean buyer) then hopes that prices will go up.  They probably will, but when you go to sell, some buyer wants a profit and you are then lucky to break even.

Now all this being understood by one Gary H. Winston who had a bit of scrap gold to sell as he was a hobbyist dealing with  his collection of stones, so mounting were always accumulating after his removal of stones for his personal collection.

Gary went down to sell at current spot to Joseph.  Gary had already weighed his gold on his own scale so he knew what he had for sure.  Strange Josephs scale came up with about twenty percent less weight.  There wasn’t much Gary could say without starting a fight on the spot, so he declined the offer and left.

Gary was very angry because he knew what that thieving fraud was doing.  On the way out Gary was muttering to himself about it thinking there should be someway to give him what he deserves.

Gary noticed on the way back to his car that Josephs travel cargo trailer was sitting backed into a parking place.  He knew whose it was from the sign on it. It was built like Fort Knox, even better than an armored car.  It became immediately obvious to Gary what Joseph was putting in it at the close of each day.

Strangely enough some unknown party had pulled up in the middle of the night and hitched that cargo trailer up and drove off with it, lock, stock, and barrel. The next morning Joseph suffered great distress.

Who ever drove off with the trailer, took the cash from inside and spent it on a moderate size home smelting oven along with molds to pour gold in and make bars.  Now there was some cash left over.  That was used to cover the value of the mysterious someone’s own pile of salvage gold, which got added to the pile of Josephs gold (minus any removal stones); all of which was melted down into untraceable bars.  Those bars mysterious ended up on the Salvation Army’s doorstep.

A few days later a newspaper report said that there had been way more cash than there was actually, and way more gold than there was actually reported as stolen, not to mention an inflated value for the trailer which had also mysteriously disappeared.  In to a deep lake for those who need to know.  Joseph said it was lucky he had good insurance with Allstate.

Now our mysterious unnamed Robin Hood type; got irked all over again, so he sent the other item he had taken from the trailer to Joseph’s Insurance Company. That’s right; it was Josephs meticulously kept books.

The next thing showing up in the newspaper about two months later was a second page headline stating about the sentence of five to ten years Joseph got for attempted Insurance fraud.

Was justice served?  I’ll let you decide.