Enigmatic
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Josh Ferrin, an artist for the Deseret News, stumbled across some treasure in his new house -- a trove of $45,000 in cash and coins tucked away where no one could see it.
With thoughts of car and house payments in his head, he still decided to return all of the money to the previous owners of the house. Would you have done the same?
"I've got two boys and we teach them to be honest and to do what is right and I knew this was a teachable moment that I would never get back again," Ferrin, of Bountiful, Utah, told ABC News. "So I thought we would have fun with it. We would do something courageously honest with it. Something awesome. It's been a great thing for us and our kids."
"I thought, maybe this could be a little hidey-hole that had been finished and my kids could go up there and play," said Ferrin. He grabbed a ladder to climb up and investigate. It was dark, but he was able to make out an old and dusty ammo box.
"I grabbed the thing, it was heavy. I thought it might be holding down some pieces of wood or something," he said. It wasn't. It was filled with rolls and rolls of dollar bills.
"I opened it up, freaked out, closed it, locked it in the trunk of my car and called my wife to say, 'You are not going to believe what I just found in our attic."
At the time, Ferrin thought he had stumbled on a stash of $800 to $1,000. He climbed back up and found seven more money-filled boxes.
"It took me and my wife and my father three hours to unroll all the money and sort it by denomination," said Ferrin. It was a lot more than $800. They stopped counting when they hit $40,000.
"I'm human and immediately I thought of all the things we really needed the money for, but I believe in doing what is right and you can't dwell on those sorts of things when it's not your money," Ferrin said.
There was some dissent within the family on that, but Ferrin said he would not "name names." Many people told him, "What were you thinking?! It was your house! It's your property!"
But he and his wife knew they had to return the money to its rightful owners.
(WTF?!)
"This is the first step in a journey for us. There was no way I could start this new chapter in our lives in this house by doing something so wrong," Ferrin said.
Ferrin contacted Bangerter's children, and returned the money. He has not yet heard back from them, but assumes that is because they are still counting the money.
"Even though I didn't keep the money, I feel so lucky that I was the guy that found a treasure. I'm the guy that was walking down the beach that found a treasure chest filled with gold, that's me! This is a story that I will tell forever."
I can't believe they would return all of that money, and the ungrateful bastards didn't even bother to respond with a few g's or at least a thank you?! Just for that they don't even deserve to have it back, they didn't even know it was there. They didn't deserve just for being idiots and leaving it.
Personally if I found all of that money I'd say.."I gotta be dreaming.." "this is a trick..a joke, where are the cameras?" After I realize it isn't a joke I'd put it all back to tend to it in the morning. Go to sleep and say "life is great.." and not give a single shit..
what would you do?
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