Being primarily a Buddhist, I always roll my eyes when the term "karma" is thrown around to support one's point of view.
Especially when the term is used in a wishy-washy way without really understanding the whole karmic cycle and how Universal laws come into effect.
Let's make up scenario......
There's a couple at the beach who have their story like everyone else who's there.
This story is not a pleasant one as the big, fat greedy husband is abusive and his wife is too afraid to leave him.
He starts in on her, putting her down, yelling his usual nastiness, flailing his arms in her face when his big gold signet ring flies off and lands where he can't find it.
Immediately, he blames his wife for this loss and belittles her even more but this time it bounces off because she's happy the miserable prick lost his precious ring, especially when he bought that ring just to spite her.
She thinks that there's actually a God up there punishing her husband for his evil ways.
They go home and he beats her but that won't shake her satisfaction of his misfortune.
Fast forward a few days later and enter a guy with a detector. This guy lives a different kind of lifestyle than the norm.
He basically lives at the poverty line just so he can have the freedom to go out detecting whenever he wants.
He puts his trust in the Universe that everything will work out as he does not have a regular paycheck. He's a few hundred short of his rent and with only a few days left, starts to feel fears and doubts kick in.
Ignoring this predictable cycle he chooses to have faith and heads out to find his rent money.
You see, he has spent weeks cleaning and cataloging artifacts for the historical record out of love as he doesn't sell these important finds.
He decides to head to the beach to find something modern that he can sell to make ends meet.
When he arrives at the beach, there's holes everywhere indicating the place is hammered but after the "no one gets it all" affirmation, he swings like mad all day but unfortunately after 8 hours, he only has a few bucks and a tiny silver earing to show for his efforts.
He feels disappointment sinking in but is already hardwired to deal with such emotions and tells himself that it was truly a pleasure to be out in the fresh air doing what he loves and all the exercise is an added bonus........
When all of a sudden BANG! A blast of a signal rings out and sitting in the scoop is the gold puppy that the fat bastage lost.
He looks up at the sky and thanks the Universe for taking care of him once again.
He gets home and wants to hold the ring and stare at it (and decide maybe to keep it?) but there's a bad energy around the ring which makes him easily decide to scrap it and move on with life.
This feeling of "bad energy" was familiar when he found that huge gold biker ring (designed as a punching ring) that had nasty symbols all over it and was probably made from melting a bunch of stolen rings together or it was paid by drug money....
Did he make any effort to return that biker ring? HELL NO!!!! SCRAP!
What if some other detectorist found the signet ring and tracked down the fat, greedy wife-beater and he snatched it out of your hand and walked off without a thank you?
Do you think that it was HIS karma to loose that ring as the Universe was trying to teach him a lesson?
If you returned the ring and he goes on his merry way thinking there's no repercussions for his actions?
To those who throw around the karma term.....do you ever think it was someone's BAD karma that caused them to loose something?
Am I a pirate? No, I fall into my own special, unique category!
So, guess I'm a "not so bad" pirate.
I did get in contact with the guy who lost his class ring (the one I dug on 12/24/2016) . Long story short he told me to keep it. 
I was prepared to send it to him in TN where he currently resides or to another relative in case he thought I was a paper server).
