Man Returns Bike, Wants Higher Reward

Being decent just doesn’t pay what it used to. Even in Sweden, that’s the truth. When a man there recently returned a missing bicycle that he’d found, and received in return the equivalent of about six U.S. dollars, he felt that he’d been gypped. He may have had a point: “To underestimate the value of people’s time in this manner is risking decreasing the rate of solving cases,” he claimed in an offical report that he filed. “Many (myself included) will leave bikes lying in a ditch rather than turn them in if the finder’s fee isn’t more substantial than this.” His proposed solution is cold and hard and percentage-based–he calls for a reward of approximately 10 percent of the returned item’s value–but it is not unreasonable.