{{A California man who found a bag containing $125,000 (\u00a374,564) said he returned the cash to the armoured truck company that accidentally dropped it because it was the “right thing to do.”}}<\/p>\n
Joe Cornell, 52, told the Fresno Bee newspaper he saw the bag of cash fall out of the back of a Brinks armoured cash transport car as it drove over railroad tracks in downtown Fresno on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Cornell, who was working in the lot of a Salvation Army location as part of a substance abuse rehabilitation program, told the newspaper he recovered the bag and found it stuffed with hundred dollar bills.<\/p>\n
“I started crying and shaking,” Cornell said. “Everything was going through my mind, the good devil\/bad devil thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
Cornell made up his mind to alert his boss at the Salvation Army and the pair called Fresno law enforcement authorities who helped facilitate the bag’s return to Brinks.<\/p>\n
The Virginia-based company could not be reached for comment Friday, but a spokesman told the Fresno Bee it had thanked Cornell for his honesty with a $5,000 reward and another $5,000 donation to the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n
For Cornell, deciding to give back the cash became a simple decision.<\/p>\n
“They’re going to back-track,” he said of Brinks officials when they realized the money was lost. “There are cameras everywhere now. You’d be doing federal time. And it’s the right thing to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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