For the past two or three months now I've been seeing a guy standing on street corners near where my brother lives with a giant sign that offers a five thousand dollar reward for a missing chihuahua. I've also seen at least one van driving around with two big magnets of the same sign attached to it.
At first I just thought it was really sad that somebody lost their dog and went about my day.
But I've been seeing this guy for a while now and the logistics of it are getting to me. I'm starting to think it's some sort of weird scam.
They're offering five thousand dollars to get their dog back and the dog has clearly been missing for months now.
They've been paying at least one guy (possibly more) to stand on street corners and wave this "find my dog" sign about for at least two months. (I'm assuming they're paying the guy because I'd imagine the owners can't be spending all their time standing on street corners with signs, they have to have jobs so they can afford to advertise thier missing dog).
They've purchased several professionally made giant signs advertising this missing dog.
Did I mention this has been going on for months?
Now, I love dogs. My family has always had at least one dog and we're the type of people who consider them part of the family. However, we're also the kind of people who realize that they are dogs. If we had a chihuahua who went missing, we'd probably put up some photocopied "Lost Dog" signs around town, but I, for one, would never think to get professionally made giant "Lost Dog" signs and car magnets and hire people to lug them around town. Even if I did, I would give up after a couple weeks.
This has been going on for months. I hate to say it, people, but you're never getting that dog back. She's either dead, gone back to the wild or she lives with a different family now. Perhaps a family who isn't insane.
Seriously, either these people are incredibly rich and have no problem spending their money on lost dog frivolities, or they're up to something. What, I don't know. I honestly can't figure out how a lost dog scam would work. Who is the target? What is the desired outcome? You can't exactly steal people's identities by offering them money for finding your missing dog (can you?) so what could they be possibly trying to gain if it is a scam?
And if it isn't a scam, how could they possibly afford and justify spending this much money on "have you seen my dog?" ads? It's completely illogical and it's driving me crazy!
If they really did lose their dog I'm sad for them, but get a new fucking dog already!
Be seeing you.
-Sally
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