$3,800 in dumpster: A dumpster diver in Tennessee found the score of a lifetime: $3,800 in cash. But he did what any honest person would do and returned it.
Joe Ellis of Murfreesboro tries to make some extra money by recycling discarded cans, looking through the dumpster at a Speedy Mart.
He told ABC News affiliate WKRN that he found 38 $100 bills in a plastic bag with three deposit slips. “I didn’t think it was real,” he said.
“I turned it in to the people, the two guys that work there, and I told them about what happened and I gave them the money and he was counting it out, one of the guys in the store. He said it was, I don’t know, almost … $4,000,” he told the station.
Maulik Patel, Speedy Mart’s manager, said that he could not believe that Ellis returned the cash.
“When he dropped it [off] to me, I couldn’t believe it. He said he found it in the Dumpster last night and dropped it off here and said if there is anyone looking money, you can give it to them,” Patel told ABC News. Patel then called the police to figure out who the rightful owner of the money is.
Ellis told the station that the owner of the money was thankful and gave him $400.
Late last month, a Philadelphia-area woman found $30,000 in some old clothes and she also returned the cash.
“I had to give it back,” Carol Sutor, of Bristol, Penn., told the Phillyburbs website at the time. “I believe in karma, whatever I do will come back to me, good or bad.”
And earlier in March, a Delaware college student returned $1,800 that was dispensed from an ATM on a university campus.
“My eyes just opened really wide, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is $1,800 right here,’ ” Devon Gluck told The News Journal. “It’s pretty crazy.” He added, “After a couple days of just thinking about it, the right thing would be just to return the money. I mean, it was just eating at me at the time because it isn’t mine and I didn’t even know what to do with it.”
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