From Riviera Beach in Florida comes the story of a man returning $30,000 to a poor soul who’d misplaced it, saying “it wasn’t mine to take.”
The story is simple, yet powerful, and a reminder that there are good people all over the country; all over the world.
It starts with Luis Salazar walking into the bathroom of a Wawa convenience store and finding a fanny pack hung on the handrail inside the stall.
Salazar asked around inside the store to see if anyone had forgotten it, with no avail. His next thought was to open it up to look for an ID, but his mind went “numb” from what he saw inside: several huge wads of cash.
Yet being the good person prefaced in this story, Salazar never thought of taking a dime, and instead spent several days trying to locate the person who owned it. Eventually, the fanny pack’s owner contacted Riviera Beach police to report it missing, who used security camera footage to identify Salazar.
They told him the owner was waiting at the Riviera Beach Police Station, and Salazar went right over.
“So, I give him his bag. ‘This is yours.’ And he was crying. And he hugged me,” Salazar said.
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“I was pretty astonished that anybody would have done that,” said the owner, who chose not to be identified. “Think about it. That’s life-changing money. People would kill for that kind of money.”
For his part, Salazar didn’t seem astonished.
“It’s not my money to take. I was not raised that way,” Salazar said.
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