Posted on 12/19/2015 8:52:20 AM PST by Hojczyk
'The right thing to do': Applebee's waiter hands in $32,000 in cash that a family forgot at a table
A restaurant waiter in central California has been praised for his honesty after he handed in $32,000 (£21,500) in cash left behind at a table by customers.
The 10-year employee of the Applebee's restaurant sought to remain anonymous and declined repeated requests to accept a reward from the family, director Carrie Hellyer said.
"He just said that he did it because it was the right thing to do and he didn't want the right thing being overwhelmed by anything else," Hellyer said.
The family left a canvas pouch stuffed with $32,000, all in hundred-dollar notes, at an Applebee's restaurant in Fresno on Wednesday, according to a local police spokesman.
The waiter turned the cash - roughly equivalent to his annual salary - over to his manager after discovering it at the family's table, and it was picked up by a police car later in the day.
When the family called police on Thursday to report the loss, arrangements were made for them to pick it up at the station.
Underscoring the waiter's honesty, Hellyer said there was no surveillance camera in the area where the family left their money.
The money was returned to the family only after a detective determined it was obtained legally. The cash came from rental properties and a Mexican restaurant the family operates in the San Francisco Bay Area town of San Jose.
"You know how some people don't use banks, I think they're that type of person," the police spokesman said.
The family had attempted to rent a safe deposit box at a bank, but none was immediately available, he added. As a result, they had the cash with them at Applebee's
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Good on your part! Maybe it would be better next time to demand a receipt (with name /badge #) from the employee next time, if they refuse, don’t let them take the lost goods.
I would have been ready for that:
1. Get a cocaine test kit.
2. Ask an agent for any bill they are currently carrying in their wallet.
3. Test the bill for coke.
4. It will pop positive.
DEA is another federal entity that could go the way of the Dodo and it would be a net improvement.
The IRS has can charge you with “failure to keep proper records” or some crap like that.
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