What would you do if you found a bag filled with enough money to make your life easier?
Debbie Cole of Largo found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000! What did she do? She immediately returned it to the authorities.
The money had fallen off a Loomis armored car about a half hour before Debbie found it near the Pinellas County solid waste operations facility where she’s employed. She actually thought it was a turtle on the road when she first spotted the bag.
The bag was found at about 7 a.m and it was filled with enough $50 and $100 bills to have paid her salary for two years!
It’s still unclear how the bag happened to have fallen from the truck.
Her boss, Bob Hauser, is unable to give her a bonus or raise for her good deed, but he might arrange for some extra time off.
Cole grew up in Long Island and she says she was raised to be honest. When she was asked if she even thought of keeping the money she stated “Everyone keeps asking me that,” Cole said. “To be honest, no. It didn’t even cross my mind.”
Well good for her! I hope Loomis gives her a bonus for turning in the money.
So - what would you have done had it been you that found all that money? Be honest.
Changing a light bulb in Birmingham is getting expensive - the cost is now over 90,000 pounds. News that a council street and traffic lights engineer received 91,000 pounds for 2005/2006 including overtime bonuses, even though he was off sick, caused an uproar. Apparently the average pay in Britain is about 23,000 pounds a year.
Birmingham City Council’s Alan Rudge said he intended to stamp out the practice of workers getting bloated pay packets. Earlier this month, Birmingham council came under fire when news leaked that some road workers, whose job was to paint white lines on the city’s streets, earned 1,000 pounds a week.
Wow, maybe I should move to Birmingham England and get a job working for the city?
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