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The two missionaries this weekend found $1,200 in cash on a crime-heavy street off Copper Avenue Northeast.
They were riding their bikes home from a fellow church member's house, where they'd helped translate Spanish to his landlord, when a scrap of paper caught Goodman's eye.
It turned out to be an envelope from a local financial institution. Inside, the two found a stack of bills.
It pays to be on the Lord's errand...
Alas, they turned the money in.
When Goodman turned over the cash to Albuquerque police Monday morning, he joined a list of only 16 others who have turned in money and wallets found in the last 10 years, according to Metropolitan Forensic Science Center records.
Most folks on that list turned in wallets with less than $100.
I have to imagine that their honesty will pay off in the end.
And, I laughed when I read this last line:
That said, if no one claims the money within 90 days, they get it back.
Goodman said if that happens, he will split it with Fletcher and will send his portion back to his parents in Yuba City, Calif., near Sacramento.
He and Fletcher, of Portland, Ore., are on the last year of their two-year Mormon mission in Albuquerque. They and their families must pay for their expenses.
The owner of the money can file a claim with the forensic science center at 823-4600, but must produce proof that the cash is theirs.
Uhhh, it's green and worth $1,200?
I wonder if I would have done the same...
7 comments:
those guys are pretty honest. i don't know what i would've done
those guys are pretty honest. i don't know what i would've done
why does it always post twice for me?
I don't know why you always publish twice, the problem is most likely with the user. Ha-Ha!!!!
On my mission I found a brown paper bag at an ATM just outside the bank, when I looked inside I found just over $1,000. I went inside the bank and reported what I found and gave them my number. When the owner of the money came to pick it, he never even said thank you - I couldn't believe it.
Actually...it's funny that you mention that money...I seem to think I happened to lose $1200 just off Copper street...
Thanks, Hayes. I'll give that number a call. It'll be good to be reunited with that money!
tee-hee...
wow, i can't believe that either, jon!
That very same thing happened to my companion and I while serving in Aizuwakumatsu. We turned a big fat wallet. . .the owner hand delivered the reward money to us a couple of days after we turned it in.
Geoff
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