Ten minutes later (I was real far from the house location) I arrived at the house and noticed a lady dressed in all purple named Brenda behind my house where the bag was!  I rushed on over to see if she had found the bag yet, and she did.  I entered war mode.

"Drop the bag, now."  I ordered.

She dropped a backpack which did not contain the items I was looking for.  I attacked her.

"Don't play stupid with me.  You know what bag I'm talking about, drop it now or die."  I threatened.

She began running, I chased her down and made quick work of her.  I examined the corpse and retrieved my bag and some other items that would be useful including some reagents, a dye tub and dyes, and two thrones for my house.

How dumb can someone be?  She had the choice of A.)  surrendering the bag to someone with obviously more skill and equipment and living, or B.)  refusing and dying.  Why does everyone choose B?