Mangled bangles

Ultra-rich people can afford to buy absurdly high-priced items like a cup of exotic coffee at the Julith cafe in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Brewed from Panamanian beans that Julith co-founder Serkan Sagsoz claimed were bought at an auction in Panama for $600,000 for 20 kilograms, a cup is priced at $980, making it the world’s most expensive coffee.
Derived from the “Nido 7 Geisha” beans grown on a plantation near Panama’s Baru volcano, the coffee has floral and fruity flavors reminiscent of tea, according to Sagsoz, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
“There are white floral notes like jasmine, citrus flavors like orange and bergamot, and a hint of apricot and peach,” Sagsoz told AFP.
Julith dares to offer a 3,600-dirham coffee like Roasters, the previous Guinness World Record holder for selling coffee priced at 2,500-dirham per cup.
Meanwhile, a clerk at a jewelry shop in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China accidentally knocked over a box of jade bangles on a table while moving another table displaying other jewels in October.
Video from the shop’s security camera showed the clerk, a young man who had just graduated from college and had been working at the shop for a few months, trying to fix the broken jade bangles to no avail, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
The more than 30 shattered jade bangles were worth over one million yuan, and the clerk certainly could not pay the equivalent of $140,000 for all the damaged goods.
The shop owner, identified by the surname Cheng, did not charge the employee for his losses out of compassion and because he had asked the clerk to move the table at the request of a customer.
Cheng said he would display the broken bangles in the store as a reminder to employees not to be careless.
The mainland China media outlet Jimu News reported that the clerk was relieved and grateful for his employer’s leniency.
The incident quickly went viral on mainland social media, with related topics amassing 30 million views, according to SCMP.
