Crazy Kid Finds Backpack With 8K, And Doesn’t Keep Loot

Johnston’s grandmother called the town clerk, who identified the bag’s owner based on the passports and other documents found with the money. The owner was a woman who had lived across the street until a fire damaged her apartment last year.”

The Associated Press

When I was a 10-year-old boy I spent all my time terrorizing small rodents and birds with my BB gun, and I had no time for helping little old ladies cross the street or for picking up litter.

Arie Johnston was helping his grandma pick up litter when he found a backpack stuffed with more than $8,000. Most kids would have claimed the cherished principle of “finders keeper” and would have ditched grandma and gone to the mall to stock up on video games.

Arie is an exceptionally honest child, I bet he is the hall monitor in his school. He might get a pat on the back from his dear old grandmother, but I bet he doesn’t get jack from the owner of the backpack.

The moral of this story: Dude, figure it out for yourself!