Good Samaritan
Offline Bill Vint Jr. did the right thing when he found a money bag filled with $450 in cash and checks. He returned it to a pizza parlor. Vint was bicycling Friday when he passed something on the road that resembled a bank deposit bag.
"I almost didn't turn around," Vint said.
He unzipped the money bag expecting to find nothing, but it was anything but empty.
Studying a receipt, Vint alerted Chris Dunning, manager of 5 Buck Pizza in Cedar City. He arranged to meet up with Dunning's wife to return the money.
Dunning said he hadn't realized the money was missing. Earlier that morning, he wrapped the bag inside a sweat shirt and said it must have slipped out.
"I was amazed that someone would go to that kind of trouble to return cash found in the street," Dunning said.
Vint said his mother always told him not to keep anything that wasn't his.
Vint builds pools for a living, and this year has been tough. He's helped install only five pools this year, down from 30 in each of the past two years.
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I like that this guy cites his mothers teachings as an influence on his decision to give the money back.
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Wow, it IS possible for credit to be given where it's due. Never thought I'd see the day.
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I know a similar story. In this country, one businessman lost a wallet with an equivalent of 6 000 dollars. 14 years old boy found it and returned it to the owner, who was sitting in depression somewhere nearby. This got to the TV news and one minister (of finances or schools, if I remember) personally gave the boy a new computer.
It's a good example of human morality, something I would hopefully do as well. (maybe demanding the lawful 10% as a finder tax, if I'd have a bad day) It's just a bit disturbing fact that businessmen have a bad reputation in this state, they're like something between a mafia and sybarites, so I hope this one was a decent businessman and earned the money honestly.
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I've done things like that, not involving large amounts of money, AFAIK. One incident was very similar, cycling along a suburban road at night, and it occurred to me that a small object on the road that I had just passed looked like a wallet. So I stopped and went back, and sure enough it was. I think there was some cash in it. So based on some information in the wallet I found a phone number and contacted the owner who was understandably pleased, and more than a little surprised that someone would go to that much trouble to get it back to them, intact.
Another time I could find nothing in the wallet to indicate an owner, so I just left it at a police station.
Never did I entertain the idea of taking anything for my trouble, I just thought of how I would hope for someone to do that if I had lost something.
Maybe if I was desperately short of money and resources, I may behave differently, perhaps, but I would have to be really desperate.
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When I was kid of 9, 48 yrs ago, I found a wallet on the sidewalk, took the $60, left the wallet and feeling rich, bought lots of candy which I shared. Wealth corrupts, bad me .... well at least I shared, but I'm still ashamed.
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