19 Year Old Returns $24,000 Found In Theater
Recently, 19 year old Christopher Montgomery who worked in an AMC theater in Rockville Center, found a zippered bank pouch while cleaning between seats, filled with $100 bills held together by rubber bands. After he found the money, he reported the finding to his manager, who discovered the money was $24,000. Soon after, the woman who lost the money tried to buy ice cream at a nearby parlor, when she made the blood-chilling discovery. She tried to recall where the money could have been, when she called the theater to find someone had found her money. Once she came back to the theater, the manager returned her every cent of the money. She said that the teen refused to accept a cash reward.
Anyway, the reason I am posting this is because I feel that this is an incredibly honorable thing to do. If you had been the teen, would you have returned it?
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20. December 2006 um 11:37
No, that kid is a gigantic loser. I would have been $24,000 richer, or perhaps $23,000 richer after having bought 100,000 Swedish Fish.
That guy is a megatool.
20. December 2006 um 23:31
hahaha, “I’m in the mood for ice cream, where’s my giant bag of $100 bills? Oh crap, I left it at the movie theater.”
22. December 2006 um 16:57
seriously, why does anyone carry around $24,000? unless you’re heading straight to the bank. and then, you just forget about it? “oh, darn! wherever did i leave that $24,000? saints alive!”
i’d return the money but that old lady is so stupid.
8. July 2007 um 22:40
I happen to know this kid even though it’s been years since I have seen him. I was very close to his paternal grandmother and am still close to his aunt and his dad. If you knew his grandmother (who lived next door to him his entire life until she died) you would understand why he returned the money. that is the way he was raised.