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5-year-old finds $7,000 and turns it in . . . Good girl, and good parent, too!
For once, the news is good :
"5-year-old finds and returns $7,000" (Associated Press)
"And a little child shall lead them" (KTKA.com)
"Kansas 5-Year-Old Finds, Returns $7,000 At Goodwill" (KAKE "Offbeat News")
A five-year-old girl (Claire Dingler of Wichita, KS) found an envelope with $7,000 in cash, on the floor of a Goodwill store. She gave the envelope to her mother, who turned it in to the store.
They tracked down the owner of the money, and returned it to him.
The reporter asked Claire if she ever thought about keeping the money, and the little girl said no.
"Why not?" asked the reporter.
"Because . . . it was somebody else's."
Good girl!
And I'm actually even more impressed with the girl's mother. Clearly, she's doing a great job of raising her children.
And not only that . . . If they're doing their shopping in a Goodwill store, then I have to figure that they're not exactly swimming in bucks themselves. And when you consider, further, the economic crisis that the country is now facing . . .
I am quite impressed by this woman's willingness to do the right thing and turn in that $7,000 . . . She could have very easily pocketed it and, most likely, nobody would ever have known.
As I said . . . Good girl, and good parent, too!
EDIT :
Okay, it took me a little while to get to a link that actually worked.
I wound up using a link to a YouTube video of that Associated Press news report.
The original link I had posted . . .
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...26713&src=news
. . . actually went to a news story that I had talked about in a previous thread (about an anti-shoplifting campaign in a Staten Island mall), but you might have noticed that in the corner of that web page, there was a link to the news story about the 5-year-old girl.
I couldn't figure out how to link to that story directly, however, so I used the link to the YouTube video instead.
EDIT :
I came across two other news reports about this story, and decided to post links to them as well, for anybody who wants to hear more about this. You can see the links above, below the one to the Associated Press story.
"5-year-old finds and returns $7,000" (Associated Press)
"And a little child shall lead them" (KTKA.com)
"Kansas 5-Year-Old Finds, Returns $7,000 At Goodwill" (KAKE "Offbeat News")
A five-year-old girl (Claire Dingler of Wichita, KS) found an envelope with $7,000 in cash, on the floor of a Goodwill store. She gave the envelope to her mother, who turned it in to the store.
They tracked down the owner of the money, and returned it to him.
The reporter asked Claire if she ever thought about keeping the money, and the little girl said no.
"Why not?" asked the reporter.
"Because . . . it was somebody else's."
Good girl!
And I'm actually even more impressed with the girl's mother. Clearly, she's doing a great job of raising her children.
And not only that . . . If they're doing their shopping in a Goodwill store, then I have to figure that they're not exactly swimming in bucks themselves. And when you consider, further, the economic crisis that the country is now facing . . .
I am quite impressed by this woman's willingness to do the right thing and turn in that $7,000 . . . She could have very easily pocketed it and, most likely, nobody would ever have known.
As I said . . . Good girl, and good parent, too!
EDIT :
Okay, it took me a little while to get to a link that actually worked.
I wound up using a link to a YouTube video of that Associated Press news report.
The original link I had posted . . .
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...26713&src=news
. . . actually went to a news story that I had talked about in a previous thread (about an anti-shoplifting campaign in a Staten Island mall), but you might have noticed that in the corner of that web page, there was a link to the news story about the 5-year-old girl.
I couldn't figure out how to link to that story directly, however, so I used the link to the YouTube video instead.
EDIT :
I came across two other news reports about this story, and decided to post links to them as well, for anybody who wants to hear more about this. You can see the links above, below the one to the Associated Press story.
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