Remarkable honesty. A homeless man who found a wallet with a large sum of money inside returned it. He was rewarded for his action.
While on an empty train, this homeless man who lives in the Netherlands found a wallet in a train car. When he inspects it, he finds 1,970 euros inside. While he collected empty plastic bottles to earn a few euros, his find could have provided him with enough to survive for a while.
This was without taking into account the unfailing honesty of this man, whose story, reported in Dutch media, is relayed by Ouest France.
No identity papers
He therefore decides to return the wallet to the police, who confirm the sum and indicate that there was no “unfortunately no identity papers or anything to contact its owner”.
The SDF, rewarded for his civic-mindedness, commented: “No matter what I find, I always give it back”. He received a gift certificate for 50 euros and a “silver thumb”, which the country’s authorities give to their exemplary citizens.
The police chief clarified his admiration to a local newspaper, indicating that according to him, few people, even with “a roof over their heads would have acted differently.”
The SDF hopes that the person who owns the wallet “maybe will a job for me or a place to live where I might live, you never know.”. In the meantime, if within a year no one has claimed the find, the 1970 euros will automatically return to them.
