Money falls from a truck ...

[Hum]

If money literally fell off of a truck right in front of you, what would you do? Would you be tempted to pocket it and keep going or would you do the honest thing and give it all back? Pat Wesner of Salem, New York, chose the latter.

Wesner was driving to work on Tuesday morning, and an armored Brinks truck happened to pass in front of her. All of a sudden, dollar bills and coins spilled out of the truck. So what did she do? Wesner called 911 to inform them of what had happened. Wesner described how the money hit the ground, and then "sprayed out like a halo with the sunshine." She added, "It was definitely something out of a movie." Apparently, the driver of the Brinks truck did not realize that he had lost the money. In addition, Wesner said there were no witnesses of the event, yet she still did the right thing.

When a state trooper arrived, the two of them picked up the money and it was all returned to Brinks. In all, there were more than 11,000 one-dollar bills and $50 in pennies. Wesner said that she and the trooper were both laughing as they collected the money, and she said, "I can't even put one dollar in my pocket without feeling guilty about it. It's not my money."

Wesner said that since learning of what happened, her friends said they may not have been as honest as she was. Some said they would have kept the money. A few of her friends even suggested she should have kept it because she is deserving and could really use the money. Wesner works for a nonprofit and is a married mother of four, with one son away at college, one son serving in Afghanistan, a daughter, and a son who is disabled whom she has to care for daily.

Even though the nonprofit that Wesner works for has to watch every penny, she said, "It's stealing if you take something that's not yours," and she would have never thought of keeping the money no matter how much she could use it.

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[Growled Member]

A good person will do the right thing when no one is watching and no one will ever know. They do it because it is the right thing to do.

[Hum]

No witnesses ... I might have drove to my bank to make a deposit ... :shifty:

[The Evil Overlord]

God I wish things like that would happen to me.... I'd be an honest citizen, I'd turn all that money in, in small amounts via various shops and stores..... :shiftyninja:

[Growled Member]

^ Now Hum, you know that ain't right. :p

[srbeen]

She helped collect it out of the goodness of her heart? thats more than the right thing. Brinks should be thanking her personally.

I would have called it in, collected a few hundred in the meantime, and spread joy to a bunch of homeless folk that day.

[FloatingFatMan]

You'd think Brinks would have at least given her a reward...