By: Don Caldwell
Could you really do the same?
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A man who found more than $40,000 cash in the Utah home he recently bought has returned the money to its rightful owner, The Salt Lake City Tribune reported Thursday.
Josh Ferrin discovered the money stuffed in eight ammo boxes in the attic while he was exploring a workshop room in the Bountiful home on Tuesday.
At the time he thought of his car troubles, repairs and renovations for the house and his desire to adopt a child -- but he returned it to the owner.
"I couldn't let myself consider the money mine," he said.
"This little guy [the previous homeowner] didn't put it there for me. He put it there for a rainy day," he said.
Ferrin took the eight boxes to his parents' home, where he counted the money with his wife Tara and two children, Oliver and Lincoln.
The previous owner of the home was Arnold Bangerter, a father of six who died in November. Bangerter, who worked for the state's fisheries, purchased the home in the mid-1960s because of the giant tree in the backyard.
A heart-warming story to be sure, but one has to ask…how many could really do the same?
It is one thing to have found money when it is “extra” then if you found it when you are also in desperate need of it. What does this say about a man who held it in his hand knowing how badly he needed it and yet still went out of his way to give it back?
How many people could really do the same?
How many could do the same considering that when he found it, no one else knew about it. The original owner of the money was dead. No one would have known if he had kept the money.
People are at their best when there is an audience, but what are we really like when no one is watching?
Could you really do the same?
(ORIGINAL LINK) Man Finds More Than $40,000 Cash in Utah Home, Returns it to Owners - FoxNews.com
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