There are a few things you can never expect to get back: youth, good judgment, and lost money – usually, anyway.
A North Vancouver woman stepped up to a bank machine March 4 on her lunch break to find $200 hanging out of the machine.
After looking around and not spotting anyone who looked a couple hundred dollars light, she reported the stack of $20 bills to the North Vancouver RCMP.
Asked why she didn’t pocket the cash, the Good Samaritan answered: “‘I certainly could’ve. ... I just realized that it wasn’t my money and the person who lost it maybe needed it more than I did,’” according to North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong.
The police contacted the bank. After scanning security footage and scouring their records, the bank found the forgetful customer.
That man’s expectations of seeing the money again were so low he hadn’t even reported the lost money to the bank, said De Jong. Asked if he was shocked to get the money back, De Jong replied: “Probably just as shocked as the bank.”
The incident shows some people’s moral compass is intact, according to De Jong.
“There’s good people out there, albeit we don’t champion them ... as often as we should.”
