(NEW YORK) — An 8-year-old upstate New York boy is being applauded after finding a crime victim’s cash-filled wallet in New York City and returning it to the man.
WCBS-TV reports Frankie Burns found a wallet with $1,700 inside on Saturday when he was preparing for a Gaelic football game in the Bronx. The fourth-grader from Washingtonville in Orange County didn’t hesitate to bring the wallet to his father.
After using an identification card inside the wallet, the family was able to find its owner. They say the man had recently been released from the hospital after a mugging. The victim had dropped his wallet after the attack and needed the cash for his rent.
Burns says the man gave him $100 for the act of kindness. The boy he’s going to buy a pair of soccer cleats with the reward.
MrNorc on November 18th, 2017 at 00:59 UTC »
When I was 10yo I found a $50 bill on the ground. I went and showed it to my friend. My friend later mentioned it to his father and his father immediately claimed ownership of the bill and demanded it's return. Years later I realized there was no possible way it had been his. It had blown onto the lawn from down the street. My friend's father was simply playing by rules I had yet to understand-
"Take what you can... when you can."
KickballJesus on November 17th, 2017 at 23:23 UTC »
Shouldn't he have returned it to the mugging culprit? He's the one that lost it.
dakotaanderson5 on November 17th, 2017 at 21:18 UTC »
one time lost my wallet on campus with all my money and cards in it and a girl knocked on every door in my apartment complex until she found me
edit: a word