Community | October 01, 2008 | 15 comments

Jobless German man hands in gold found by the road

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An unemployed construction worker found a package filled with the equivalent of £12,683 in cash and items of gold jewellery beside a busy German road - and has honestly handed it over to the authorities, despite having to support a demanding family on less than 600 euros per month, spotted the large brown envelope while cycling along a road near Ermstedt in the eastern state of Thuringia, a police spokesman said.

So far the origins of the money are not known, nor has anyone reported it missing, even though it contains a wad of rolled-up of 500 euro notes, and jewellery, including a ring, medallion, necklaces and ear rings.

Would you have handed such a find in to the police? I hope the man at least gets a reward!
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15 comments // Jobless German man hands in gold found by the road

  • Weepowopo
  • malathion
  • currentlyreading
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      currentlyreading  
    • I agree with islek. But I hope someone gives him reward. Maybe the noble act might get him noticed and get him a job. He has a quality that not many people have these days.

    • 3 years ago
  • islek
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      islek  
    • The fact that he returned everything without expecting some sort of handout makes him far more rich than the owner of that package.

    • 3 years ago
  • FazeB
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      FazeB  
    • I personally think this is God's way of sorting out the fools from the blessed....

      When he found it, he was blessed and when he returned it, he became a fool.

    • 3 years ago
  • CaptSutter
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      CaptSutter  
    • Ah wouldn't be nice if America and its people got its head on straight. This guy has a roof over his head, an employment agency that really works and even if the world falls apart HE has health care.
      Plus the rules are very clear in Germany, if nobody claims the gold with positive proof then it is his all legal clear and nobody can take it away.

      It is so nice to live in country based on laws.

      Hee Hee Hee.
      I am an expat and I will vote this year. ....

    • 3 years ago
  • rwylie
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      rwylie  
    • There's a significant historical interest in the coins, so good on the man, but I'd absolutely have kept the Euros, and some of the gold too!

    • 3 years ago
  • dirtysaze
  • simplecj
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      simplecj  
    • I hope they give him some of it for his honesty. He deserves a finder's fee. I recall a similar situation in the last year where a man found a bag full of money that was apparently misplaced by a bank. They gave the man a generous reward for turning it in, something like $10k I think.

    • 3 years ago
  • Leaora
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      Leaora  
    • The man did what was right. Even if he doesn't get a monetary reward (which he still might) he doesn't have to live with the pressure of stealing. If he had kept it he would have spent his time worrying about being caught.

      Kudos to the good guys!

    • 3 years ago
  • Yoshi1
  • dimogen
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      dimogen  
    • Yea, what a nice guy. If only there were more people like that. I think i would hand it in, I wouldnt want to use money i hadn't earned myself. That said, if it actually happened and i was holding it all, I might think differently, especially if I had a family to think of.

    • 3 years ago
  • romanista
  • jeffreyak
  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  
    • I walk around looking at the ground... not because I'm sad or have low self esteem. I do it in hopes of finding stuff like this. Would I hand it in? Probably... under the condition that I get a reward or that if no one claims it I get it back. Finders keepers?

    • 3 years ago
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