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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Stories like this keeps one sane in an insane culture.
The police militarization fund thanks the honest server. The DEA and theirs are investigating the family. “F
theirs= the IRS
"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.
There so much about this story that smells rankly to me.
A Mexican resturant with a bag full of cash? All legal?
Drug money?
Of course the police asset-forfeitured it later, but they haver a right to.
If you are stupidly carrying 32K into a restaurant, and dont care enough to keep it secure on your person, then you deserve to lose it.
They were Mexicans. That’s why the cops gave it back to them. Were they regular American citizens it would have gone into the slush fund.
Last year I left my purse in a shopping cart. Someone returned it to the store, but rewarded herself the cash.
Maybe it was two people.
I was ticked off and grateful at the same time.
I’m pretty honest too, but if the customers were wearing hajibs and diapers on their heads.............
Well said.
I thought it was illegal to store cash in a safe deposit box.
I actually don’t know. I don’t think so.
If I deposit $10,000.00 cash in a bank the IRS is notified.
I wonder if they did it in this case?
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[[Waiter hands in $32,000 in cash left at California restaurant]]
What an idiot- He shoudla kept a dollar
Story is from 2013— Sounded familiar.
“Drug money?”
Probably just the cash economy that keeps the government from knowing about their income. Standard practice in the illegal alien and immigrant subculture.
If it’s done right those playing this game qualify for all sorts of welfare payments and have way more spending money than you do. Jeb! and Rubio think we need a lot more of this.
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