[Jewelry making - Article 01518] - Re: [Orchid] Where to send platinum and gold

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Carol,

>     She said she worked at a chemical plant and saved the platinum from
>     "thermocouples" for many years, and has "about a one pound chunk of
>     platinum" and he has "industrial grade gold" that came from relay
>     contact points in scales. He thinks it is about 75% gold, and said
>     it includes copper, nickel and zinc. Total of about 1/2 pound. 

    These "friends" of yours are both thieves. One has stolen over
    $15,000 frorm her employer, the other maybe $2500. Each of them could
    be put in prison for what they have done. The mind boggles at the
    idea that anyone could possibly think otherwise. In what
    disfunctional moral climate can someone reach adulthood without
    understanding that if they take something of value from some person
    or some entity with the intention of permanently depriving said
    person or entity of the item(s}, that it is anything but theft.
    Perhaps that society should require school graduates to pass an exam
    in ethics before turning them loose on society. Let's just say for
    an example, you have your studio in your home. And let's say you have
    reached a level of success where you have the resources to hire a
    cleaning person once a week. Let's say further that said cleaning
    person, every week, just happens to filch a pinch of the gold scrap
    you keep in a container on your bench. Is that person stealing from
    you? Hmmm? At what point then in terms of the size and wealth of the
    owner of the appropriated items does such "appropriation" cease to
    be a crime? Or what is the amount of the "appropriated" property
    below which it is okay to take it? I've got another bulletin for
    anyone deficient in knowledge of such matters.. Assisting someone in
    disposing of such items would make the person assisting guilty of
    aiding and abetting the commission of a felony. How does that grab
    ya? 

Jerry in Kodiak
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