This kind of honesty is commonplace in my culture, or was. I can understand why a Honduran, or anyone from almost anywhere else on the planet, would be astonished.
"Oh, but someone else will just pick it up."
That's their soul's problem.
Thanks, Dad.
Several years ago a story like this was posted, and someone commented that they’d keep it and what a dummy the guy was for returning it. Don’t remember who it was. He got plenty of scorn but didn’t care. It was finders keepers to him.