A kindhearted 14-year-old fisherman who allegedly fished a wallet full of cash from a Minnesota lake managed to track down the owner and return the contents lost a year earlier.
“My cousin opened the wallet and said words I probably shouldn’t repeat and he showed it.” [le contenu] for each. “We took the money and dried it,” Connor Halsa, 14, said in an interview with WDAY-TV this week, according to the New York Post.
During a family trip to Lake of the Woods in Minnesota this summer, the 14-year-old felt a weight on the end of his fishing line. But instead of a fish, the young man discovered, to his surprise, a wallet filled with $2,000.
Without wasting a minute, the young man and his father would have made it their mission to find the owner of the money. Luckily, the wallet also contained the business card of an Iowa farmer named Jim Denney.
When contacted by the teenager’s father, the farmer revealed that he had lost his wallet, which slipped out of his pocket unnoticed when he was fishing on the same lake a year earlier.
When the penniless and embarrassed farmer paid for his stay, he realized he had lost the large sum.
“It is that [pire] The feeling I never had, feeling like I didn’t have a penny on me, he would have confided in turn to WDAY-TV. I tell you, take the wallet in your hands [aujourd’hui]it’s still hard to believe.”
After meeting his Good Samaritans, the farmer reportedly tried to hand them part of the amount as a thank you – which the teenager reportedly declined.
“We didn’t work hard for the money, he did. “It’s his money,” he would have liked to have replied to the US chain, according to the New York Post.