Huffington Post – by Ron Dicker
A Fresno, California, Salvation Army volunteer in need of his own turn of fortune found $125,000 that fell from a Brinks truck on Tuesday — and he gave it back.
Joe Cornell, who told outlets he’s in rehab and had just $1 for lunch that day, told the Fresno Bee he began to shake when he came upon the loot.
“Everything was going through my mind — the good devil/bad devil thing. What to do?” he told the outlet. “I have a grandbaby due any time, my fourth. I thought, ‘What would I want her to think of me?’ That made up my mind right there. I got on my radio and called my boss. ‘Hey, I found a bag of money.'”
KMPH reported that Cornell’s wife was so proud that she cried.
Brinks was so grateful that it donated $5,000 to the Salvation Army and gave $5,000 to Cornell, the Bee noted in an update.
For his good deed, Cornell joins the likes of Tyler Gedelian, a Goodwill worker who found $43,000 in the pocket of a donated robe and returned it all.
We should be thankful there are honest guys like these two around.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/joe-cornell-brinks-truck-125000_n_5417700.html
if it’s somebody else’s wallet or purse, sure, do the right thing….
but come on, if it falls out of a bank truck they simply print more of them!
Agreed, but banks have a record of the serial numbers. If you spend just one bill, you’ll get Busted.
coinage lack s/n’s and I challenge the statement they record every note before transport.
I’ll concede that brand new notes (and large denominations) that are being delivered are most certainly recorded before transport, however, suppose the whole lot the bloke in the story found were all singles, you telling me they would bother to record 125,000 randomly mixed serial numbers?
Yeah, buying junk at walmart, I can see the “diligent” cashier checking the (non-existent) list of serial numbers…
I doubt it,would just say was change I got.
SCORE! Nice . . .
If “they” cannot keep track of their own darn money from falling out of a truck, then they deserve to lose it to someone else. Finders keepers on this I say.
But if I found a purse or wallet, which I have in the past, it gets turned in and hopefully the rightful owner is reunited with their loss.
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Good question.
Better question:
How the farg does a ‘bag of money’ simply fall out of (or leave the possession of) a ‘Brinks’ truck (time & again)???
My guess is many don’t,especially if money was/going to a bailed out by taxpayers monies.The thing to do would be spread about 1/4 in the winds in many different areas,that would tie the searchers up and make a lot of people a bit more happy.
“Joe Cornell, who told outlets he’s in rehab and had just $1 for lunch that day,…”
“…and gave $5,000 to Cornell, the Bee noted in an update.”
Lunch for the next 19.23077 years.