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Talking Dictionary937. Diamonds, a Guard's Best Friend

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An elegant sign on the corner of the building says "Jewelers on Fifth." One fall day, Nathan was hurriedly packing everything up in his fifth-floor office. The building manager had already reminded him that the new tenant was waiting. Nathan's son and a building maintenance worker were helping Nathan move to the seventh floor. To Nathan's relief, at 5 p.m. everything had been moved into his new office. Everything except one thing—$1 million worth of loose diamonds. After frantically searching everywhere the following morning, Nathan called NYPD. Officers viewed a surveillance tape and arrested the security guard. The worker had innocently put a couple of small boxes into the hallway trash pile, which the guard later dug through. The guard, who'd already sold two diamonds for $30,000, said."When they hired me, they didn't tell me there was surveillance in the hallways. They set me up. I'm no thief."

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