A Michigan woman is being lauded for having a potentially life-changing amount of money very nearly literally fall into her lap, only to help return it, completely untouched, back to its owners.
What followed is almost unbelievable.
Dianne Gordon walks to work every day to her job in White Lake Township, on the outskirts of Detroit, according to WJBK-TV. It’s about 2.7 miles, and she does it in all sorts of weather because she doesn’t own a car.
After her shift on Jan. 21, she noticed something incredibly strange as she stopped at a BP gas station for a snack.
“I looked down on the ground and found a plastic bag with a large sum of money in it,” she told the TV station. “When you turned it over, there was even more money.”
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She didn’t know it at the time, but what she was referring to as a “large sum of money” was $14,780 worth of cash. There were also reportedly wedding cards from a ceremony that had taken place that day.
As awesome as it would be to keep that money, Gordon knew it wasn’t hers.
“This doesn’t belong to me, I need to call a police officer,” she said.
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White Lake police Lt. Matthew Ivory said of the incident, “It never really crossed her mind to do anything other than turn it over,” he told WJBK.
“It was a young couple who had just got married that day. It belonged to them,” he said.
Police were able to return the money to its rightful owners.
That’s not where the story ends, however.
A police officer’s wife set up a GoFundMe to help Gordon, because, as Ivory said, “The world could probably use a few more Diannes.”
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