In Time of Financial Crisis, Passers By Give Back Lost Money

At the end of November New York saw a bank robbery. One that went wrong the good way.

Honesty: What would you do?

Fox TV in Evansville, IN did a small test: how many people would pocket some “lost” money?

Hero taxi man returns lost purse

A Christmas superstar’ is shining in Chorley.

Wallet lost and returned, with a twist

On Aug. 28 I had the misfortune of losing my wallet. Within two hours and after contacting credit card companies it became evident that my card had been fraudulently used. Thus began the long process of cancelling not only my credit cards but also government cards, health card, birth certificate, etc. It was indeed quite a surprise to find on Aug. 30, my wallet had been left between my front doors.

Angel in disguise returns wallet with valuables

This is the story of an angel in disguise.

Bike returned

A Kitimat family is happy to report their stolen bicycle has been returned.

Honest limousine driver returns lost money to passenger

The long road ahead reflects the path of life for this ‘good’ and honest limousine driver and a bread winner in a family of four, Prateep Sripolnok, who has been in the industry to serve tourists and visitors to the island for over 10 years.

Wallet rescue prompts woman to ‘pay it forward’

On Jan. 26, at about 5 p.m. at Cody’s Roadhouse Grill in Bradenton, a very nice lady turned my wallet over to the waitstaff. I had left it in the restroom. I didn’t get to meet her and thank her, so I’d like to do that now. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I have 10 good deeds to do to pay it forward. Thank you again. – Susan Bondy, Bradenton

Found money given to honest finder

The Hawaii Police Department has returned $3,500 to a visitor who found the cash in a Kona parking lot last summer. The 73-year-old Australian woman reported the found cash to police on July 29, 2006, the same day she found it.

Library book returned – 47 years overdue

Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he’d checked out for a ninth-grade assignment – along with a check for 47 years’ worth of late fees.

Money left in restroom returned to family

When Denise Fulk stopped with her family at the Dresbach Travel Information Center on Thursday morning to use the restroom, she took a bank bag in with her. She didn’t want to leave nearly $1,500 in cash unattended in the family pickup.

Woman’s purse and $1500 returned by Good Samaritan

A GOOD Samaritan made sure a woman’s holiday was not ruined when he handed her lost bag containing £800 (arounc USD $1500) to police in West Hampstead.

Watches, crucifixes stolen 25 years ago from convent returned

It took a quarter-century, but his conscience finally got the best of a thief.

Owner reunited with missing ring

When a valuable diamond engagement ring was turned in to Guelph Police four weeks ago, it got to spend time in lockup before the owner set it free.

$1,714 lost, found and returned

With the money 10-year-old Tyler Bunch found near a bridge on a walk home, he could have bought 21 Game Boy Advance SP portable-video game systems – which come with a price tag around $80.

Everyone’s proud of boy who found, returned wallet

Several days ago, Brandon Jordon found a wallet on the ground outside his school. Inside was $125 cash and several credit cards.

Cabbie of the year returned a king’s ransom in jewelry

Last August, New York City taxi driver Hossam Abdalla held a case that contained nearly a (m) million dollars’ worth of gold, diamonds and titanium.

Million dollars in jewelry left on park bench, returned to owner

A purse containing a million dollars worth of jewellery was on its way back to its owner in Canada on Tuesday after being forgotten on a bench in a town near San Francisco, police said.

The Honesty Prize

Temptation is a powerful force, but honesty is even more powerful in some people. David Romero, a 34-year-old ONCE lottery ticket seller, is one of them. He had, in his hands, a ticket worth 35,000 euros, which its owner had cashed in by mistake for 60 euros, and he was determined to find her. He spent nine long days searching, and finally tracked down the rightful owner of the mistaken lottery ticket.

Volunteer finds $30,000 in New Orleans wall

The woman who owned the flood-damaged home knew nothing about the money in the walls.

Woman’s lost wallet returned — with cash

When Rapid City resident Mary Ellen Davis lost her wallet at her grandson’s basketball game a couple of weeks ago in Billings, Mont., she didn’t have high hopes of getting the wallet back, let alone getting it back with money inside.

Teen’s stolen prosthetic legs returned

Prosthetic legs that were stolen for a second time from a 16-year-old girl have been quietly returned, police said.

Man Reunited With Rare Guitar

The lead singer and guitarist for the popular rockabilly group, King Memphis, got his guitar back this weekend.

Wallet left in Utah gas station in 1967 returned to Pa. man

An antiques dealer is being reacquainted with his past after a Utah family returned a wallet he lost at a gas station nearly 40 years ago.

Man’s Wallet, including money, Returned Nearly 40 Years Later

A man from Wayne County lost his wallet in Utah back in 1967. And after all this time, it’s been found and returned to him, including the money inside.

Doug Schmitt from Lake Ariel had a time capsule just waiting to be opened. But he never knew it, until now. He hasn’t seen this wallet since 1967 at college in Utah. “To tell you the truth, I can’t even remember losing it. It’s almost forty years ago since I lost it,” said Schmitt.

The wallet, with five dollars still inside, was mailed to Schmitt from Ted Nyman in Utah. Nyman’s late father-in-law had been keeping the wallet in his gas station. “We just assumed that it must have been lost and ended up left in the gas station or something and he never found the owner,” explained Nyman.

Now, going through the contents, Schmitt and his wife can’t believe what they’re finding. There are stamps, eight cents apiece, a traffic ticket, and even Schmitt’s college ID. “(It’s great) to see how he looked when he was a freshman in college because I didn’t know him til he had graduated and to see the pictures of his friends in there. Most of them girls!” exclaimed Doug’s wife, Vickie Schmitt. “It just kind of brings back memories. Things I did and receipts. I couldn’t believe I had that many things in my wallet!”

And the irony of it all, Schmitt is an antiques dealer. He spends much of his time working on things of the past and thinking about the people who once owned them. “(I am usually)looking through people’s old relics and old letters from maybe someone who was in the service writing to their wife or something like that. (I) never thought I would be the object of something like this, at least not at this age anyway,” said Doug Schmitt.

“It’s just so wonderful that people will take the time to research that then return something to someone they don’t even know. It really touched me to know there were still people like that in the world,” said Vickie Schmitt.

Lost handbag with $110 000 jewelry returned

A handbag containing jewellery worth more than $110 000 has been returned to a woman who left it hanging on a shopping trolley in a car park, Australian police said on Saturday.

$800 returned to owner

Matt Branum could have been a little richer this weekend, but he chose to do the right thing and turn in a pile of money he found laying in the street.

Fair security chief returned $2,000 he felt was too much pay

A high-ranking Cass County sheriff’s official returned $2,000 in cash to the Red River Valley Fair last fall, saying he thought he was overcompensated for providing private security for the annual event.

A resolution kept, a book returned – 68 years later

As a St. Vincent’s High School senior in 1938, Lois Lyttle checked “The History of England & Great Britain” out of Vallejo’s John F. Kennedy Library.

Woman who returned diamond ring to receive diamond ring as award

The woman who found and returned the missing ring in a See’s Candies bag is scheduled this afternoon to receive a $2,500 diamond band as a reward.

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