Posted on 05/20/2011 6:36:45 PM PDT by apoliticalone
Man Finds More Than $40,000 Cash in Utah Home, Returns it to Owners
Bountiful, Utah – 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.
"I opened it up, freaked out. Closed it, locked it in my truck and called my wife," Ferrin said of the surprise.
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.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/20/man-finds-40000-cash-utah-home-returns-owners/#ixzz1Mweo9G42
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He wasn't a rich man. He needed the $40K that he found in the attic of a home he recently bought, and could have used it to his advantage but instead he did the right thing and returned it to the children of the owner, who died before ever informing his family that he had accumulated this sum over the years in ammo boxes in the attic.
A comment in the Fox News article asked what would have happened to this stash had some New York billionaire hedge fund guy found it? Any guesses?
We all know the culture and honesty of small town America is what made this country great, while the culture of the New York City money crowd has worked to tear us down. Is there any doubt that this money would have disappeared had it not been for the honesty of this Utah man. God bless him.
at least he did not give it to the Dallas police.
Good job!
I could only hope I would have his conviction and honesty.
I bet law enforcement goes after it as asset forfeiture, claiming it was drug money. Give it time.
May God bless him.
Great story! What I don’t understand is, who would keep all that cash in their house....yikes! Hope it was honest money.
The IRS will want its share in estate taxes.
My guess it was drug money or illegal in some way. Or the guy was a fruitcake. Who keeps $40K in their attic?
You would, your concience would drive you insane if you did not. Then again, 40k does buy a lot of prozac.....hmmmmm.
Pure honesty tells him that it was not his.
ROFLMAO!
A person who's a bit funny. I had a high school friend who inherited an auto salvage yard from his grandfather, and he found thousands of dollars stashed in the junk cars.
Lots of people keep a cash stash, especially those in my grandparents generation. My grandpa didn’t trust banks after the depression: “they just kept everybody’s money”.
I keep a significant stash too, not 40K, but enough to cover an emergency need if there’s no time or ability to get to a bank.
But there’s more people out there like this guy: A friend of mine passed away suddenly a couple of years ago. He had about a 40ft boat that the family finally got around to selling. Some weeks later the buyer found a hidden package stashed on the boat, with $25K in cash. The buyer returned the cash to the family.
So... there’s still some hope. There’s some good folk left out there.
The previous owner of the house was an elderly man who had lived through the Depression. He died some time ago and his children had inherited and later sold the house. He distrusted banks and was known for stashing money all over his home while he was alive.
yep there’s kooks like that around. More likely though it was drug money or some illegal activity.
I don’t see any reason to assume the money was ill-gotten. He was an old man that probably didn’t trust banks, like my own granddad.
Oh, OK thanks. I take back what I was thinking about this old man. :-) Anyway I appreciate the honesty of the finder.
My Dad once found a wallet with a small sum of money - maybe $100 or so at a flea market. He put an ad in the paper and tried to find the person who lost the wallet. No one ever called. 15 years later or so after he died we found that wallet hidden with his possessions. It still had the $100 in it.
What is interesting to me is the amount was relatively small and most people would have spent it and not bothered to keep it separate and untouched all those years. But he was fussy like that. It wasn’t his money and he didn’t know what to do with it.
The buyer returned the cash to the family.
So... there’s still some hope. There’s some good folk left out there.
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I probably would also return it.
I just know that the first dollar I took into 7/11 for a cup of coffee would tie it to a murder or some such other nonsense.
See, the Nuns did a wonderful job on me, Jewish Mothers have nothing on the Nuns when it comes to life long ‘guilt trips’....
Course Alan Funt also proved the Nuns right- someone (other than the ‘Big Guy’) is (probably) watching at all times.....<: <: <:
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