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.
I would definitely at least THOUGHT about keeping it…especially if I did not know who it really belonged to. In the end, I probably would have turned it over to the authorities, but that would have a lot to do with concern over what would happen to me if I didn’t. 🙁
WOW, great to see such honesty these days.
I probably would have kept it. Sorry about the Loomis driver’s, I’m sure they would loose their job, but they should be more careful.
Oh thats sooo hard! I’m as honest as they come (or so I thought) I hate people who steal. However with the debt that I’m in now and living where I’m at. I must say that I would be oh so very tempted. Insurance would have covered it! And those guys should loose their jobs anyway! Who the heck lets that much loot FALL off a truck!