10 people who found big money and returned it

Imagine that you are in a department store and accidentally stumbled upon a bag containing 100,000 dollars. Or they bought a house on the secondary real estate market and, during repairs in the attic, found garbage bags stuffed with banknotes. What would you do? Pay off your loans, buy a fancy new car? But a stubborn quiet voice in the depths of the heart repeats: “This is not your money, it must be returned! Someone, apparently, lost them and the owner desperately needs them ... "

Could you resist the temptation and return the money to the owner?

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10. Unknown homeless woman.

A 62-year-old homeless woman from the Canadian city of Calgary found a wallet on the street that contained more than $10,000 in cash. And although she lived in a local homeless shelter, she was determined to return the money to the owner. “The thought of keeping money for myself never crossed my mind,” admitted the homeless woman.

The incident caused a wave of compassion for the woman, and her story hit the front pages of Canadian newspapers. Many people offered her large sums of money. But our heroine was very embarrassed, and from the very beginning she insisted on remaining incognito. However, the owner of the wallet set up a $500 trust fund. Combined with other donations from Canadians, enough money was raised to enable the woman to permanently move into her own apartment.

9. Walmart employee.

Bismarck Mensah, an employee at a Walmart in Washington DC, was picking up carts in a car park and found an envelope containing $20,000 in cash. He quickly overtook the car of the buyer, who left the cart and returned the envelope with the money to the owners. For his good deed, Bismarck received an award from Walmart "Integrity in Action".

The money belonged to Leona and Gary Elton. The couple stopped at the store after receiving money from a financial company as a down payment on housing. Mensah refused to accept the reward and also turned down an offer to come to the couple for dinner. Currently, Bismarck Mensah continues to work at Walmart, and his salary is about nine dollars an hour.

8. Honest grandma

Grandma Billy Watts, 75, from Tennessee, was at a local Cracker Barrel when she saw a bag hanging from a door hook. Inside was a photograph of two women and $97,000. She informed the restaurant staff that she had found the money in her bag, took the bag with her and left her number.

Soon a woman called her and accurately described the contents of the bag, including a photograph. Watts returned to Cracker Barrel to return her find. Surprisingly, the owner of the bag was most happy about the return of the photograph, the only card of her recently deceased daughter. The money was paid out by her daughter's death insurance, which the grieving mother was going to use to move to Florida with her son. Grandma Billy Watts was offered $1,000 as a reward, but she refused to accept it.

7. New homeowner

Josh Ferrin in Utah purchased a house for his family. Inside the garage, he noticed a piece of cloth hanging from the attic door. Then he opened the hatch and found eight metal boxes in the attic, reminiscent of boxes for storing cartridges during the Second World War. Inside were banknotes rolled up in rolls, tied with twine.

Ferrin got scared, called his wife and started counting the money. He counted approximately $45,000. Ferrin recalled that the previous owner of the house was the recently deceased Arnold Bangerter, who lived apart from his children. So Josh Ferrin decided to call Arnold Bangerter's children and tell them about his find. Arnold's son confirmed that his father tended to hide money. Ferrin returned the money with the words: “I am a father and I am worried about the future of my children. I can also save money for a rainy day, and it would be dishonorable of me not to return the money to the children that their father collected over the years.

6. Taxi driver.

42-year-old taxi driver Adam Voldemarim from Las Vegas decided to clean the interior of his taxi, and found a black laptop case in the back seat. Inside was $221,510 in cash. He took the money to the office of his taxi company.

About an hour later, he was again called to the company's office by radio, where an Ethiopian tourist hugged and thanked him. The fact is that the day before he won money at a local casino. Adam received $2,000 as a token of gratitude.

5. Road find

Long Beach's Eli Estrad had a lot of credit card debt, not to mention the costs of her upcoming wedding and running a growing business. So when he stumbled across a bag of $144,000 in cash, it occurred to him that now his money problems would be resolved in a safe way.

However, realizing that, perhaps, this money was lost by someone, Eli reported a large cash find to the police. It turned out that the bag fell out of the armored truck of the Brinks cash-in-transit vehicle and ended up on the street. And, despite his duty, and the need to take care of his mother, who moved in with him after losing her home, Eli made a choice towards decency and returned the money. Brinks later gave Eli a $2,000 reward, although his mother thought they should have given him at least 10 percent of the amount.

4. Cinema employee

While cleaning the theater hall after the film, 19-year-old theater worker Christopher Montgomery found a bag containing $24,000. And instead of stuffing the bundle into his pocket, he immediately reported the find to his manager, who made sure that the money returned to its rightful owner.

The money belonged to small business owner Rosemary Limoncelli, who dropped the bundle of money from her bag while watching a movie. In gratitude for the find, Rosemary offered Montgomery a cash reward, but he refused.

3. Unemployed teacher

Candice Scott of Texas Station College was driving her car when she saw a bag lying on the side of the road. Despite the fact that the girl at first mistook the find for dirty diapers, she still stopped to check it. The bag turned out to be full of money, to be exact, it contained 20,000 US dollars. Candice wondered if she should call 911 or take the bag to the police herself.

Noticing the Chase Bank logo on the bag, Scott decided to take the bag to the local Chase Bank branch. The branch director thanked her for her honesty and gave her a $500 gift card.

According to Candace Scott, the cashier told her that she was the most honest person in the world, to which Candace replied: "Or the most stupid."

2. Waitress

Jennifer Shaw, a waitress at a Mercer restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, found an envelope containing $5,000 after a group of men left the bar. She quickly caught up with them and returned the money. One of the men, the owner of the envelope, thanked Jennifer and gave her $100 as a reward. Restaurant owner Mark Egan was proud of his waitress' act and said: "It's very rare that people lose things in a restaurant, but when it happens and our employees return the loss, such cases allow us not to lose faith in humanity."

1. 10 year old boy.

Ten-year-old Tyler Schaefer from Kansas City, due to a flight delay, spent the whole night with his parents in a hotel room at the airport CS Hilton airport. And when leaving, he confessed to his father: “I found the money!”

His father, Cody Schaefer, took from the boy a chest he found filled with neatly folded $100 bills, totaling over $10,000. Fearing that this was drug mafia money, Schaefer handed it over to the hotel's security service, who in turn handed over the find to the police. However, no one went to the police with a statement about the loss of money. And Missouri law says that if there are no claims for the return of lost items within seven months, 10-year-old Tyler has the right to possession of his find. However, the father and the boy himself refused to take the money.