Cry Wolf
April 22, 2008 by mlipton
Today a car cleaner found a pendant worth over $450,000! It was on the news. Fantastic. They showed the pendant. It was shiny and was glimmering. OOOhhhh, AAAhhhh. My host sister and Gollum were not that impressed. But why, may one ask. Simple. They are skeptical. Of what? Easy. Two years ago a story broke that a rich tourist was near the water and waved her arm, and poof, her very expensive gold watch fell off her wrist and landed in the icy St. Petersburg water. A frenzy ensued. People went diving in the cold abyss looking for the wealth. Like a modern day treasure hunt, arrr matey. A few days later someone found the watch. A miracle! Not quite. As it turned out, the whole story was a fabrication of an ad exec at a watch company. Sales were low, and he invented this story. There was no tourist. But there was a hired scuba diver who found the watch. And everyone in Russia saw the watch, and noted the company, and bam, the company is famous. It was quite ingenious. Well, now my host mother and Gollum think that this is a similar stunt of a jewelry company. Who ever heard of the little boy who cried wolf?
