This happened in our town.

Last night we went to Perkins. I had seen the below article in the news a few weeks ago but had forgot all about it until we were paying the bill when the cashier handed us a bottle of Heinz Ketchup. Apparently Heinz liked the story so much that they gave Perkins over 1300 bottles to give away. 32oz. bottle.
And no, I don't read CNN, just googled the article and CNN came up.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10...rant-trnd/index.html

(CNN)This ketchup thief may have gotten away with a crime, but karma still kicked in.
A thief swiped a bottle of ketchup from Perkins Restaurant & Bakery in New Jersey, but the person, so racked with guilt, went to Walmart, bought two 32-oz. bottles of Heinz Ketchup, and left them in a bag outside the restaurant with a note.
"A few hours [after] I did it, someone crashed into my car, and since then karma, luck, and life have been sh**," the thief wrote in the note, left on Wednesday night. "I hope returning two new bottles will restore some for me, and I can stop carrying around this guilt."
The restaurant manager found the bag while she was closing, and showed it to the owner of the franchise location, Maria DiLeo, the next morning.



"I really felt bad," DiLeo told CNN, referring to the unnamed thief with the pronoun "she." "She's got to be 17, 18, 19. I really did feel bad."
DiLeo took a picture and posted it on her town's public Facebook page "just to say, 'You're forgiven.'"
But apparently the thief still had some good karma left. DiLeo's story got the attention of officials at Heinz who, in addition to granting the thief "good ketchup karma," offered to help pay some of the car damages.
The thief came forward privately, and now we can only assume the good karma has been restored.

DiLeo, for her part, said she never would've even noticed the missing bottle.
"I do believe in karma," she said. "But not over a ketchup bottle."

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"I really felt bad," DiLeo told CNN, referring to the unnamed thief with the pronoun "she." "She's got to be 17, 18, 19. I really did feel bad."

da fuq? pronoun "She" I guess the manager is woke

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Originally posted by HRK:

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"I really felt bad," DiLeo told CNN, referring to the unnamed thief with the pronoun "she." "She's got to be 17, 18, 19. I really did feel bad."

da fuq? pronoun "She" I guess the manager is woke

I think that was just CNN noting that the manager used “she” and therefore we know it is a female even without knowing the identity.

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Originally posted by frayedends:

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Originally posted by HRK:

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"I really felt bad," DiLeo told CNN, referring to the unnamed thief with the pronoun "she." "She's got to be 17, 18, 19. I really did feel bad."

da fuq? pronoun "She" I guess the manager is woke

I think that was just CNN noting that the manager used “she” and therefore we know it is a female even without knowing the identity.

That's all I took from it. We don't know her identity, but there was a hint that she's female.

I like this story. This is a young person whose moral compass is now set right. In the future, she'll likely never even have to take a second to ponder if it's ok to, say...keep change for a hundred dollar bill when she only paid with a ten and the cashier made a mistake. She'll know the right answer immediately. And she came to this realization on her own.

She has good taste. I like French’s mustard, but Heinz Ketchup is the best.

BTW – AFAIK, this style of ketchup is unique to the US (and possibly Canada).

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Originally posted by frayedends:

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Originally posted by HRK:

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"I really felt bad," DiLeo told CNN, referring to the unnamed thief with the pronoun "she." "She's got to be 17, 18, 19. I really did feel bad."

da fuq? pronoun "She" I guess the manager is woke

I think that was just CNN noting that the manager used “she” and therefore we know it is a female even without knowing the identity.

Agree, it's Sheedy Ern Ern that is the problem, and the reporter who is woke....

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
...but Heinz Ketchup is the best...

It may be the best, but we buy something else. It bothers me to indirectly support the wife of John FFFFFFFF Kerry (who served in Viet Nam).

I'd really hope that a restaurant wouldn't serve something to customers that some random person left sitting at their door.