Tyler Opdyke, 18, of Sacramento, was handing out fliers for his uncle's business when he spotted a wallet in the driveway of Melissa Vang's home. Her husband had dropped it on his way to the car.
"With that cash, we were planning to go shopping with it for a feast that we had yesterday,” Vang said. “But I had no clue [he] had dropped his wallet or how much cash he had carried and was stuck in there.”
It didn't take Opdyke long to figure out what he had to do.
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Bravo!
There is still hope in this country!!!!
There is hope for that fine young man.
I don't know about the rest of the Country?
This is still the norm, but there are too many idiots out there to take away from the true American Spirit that grab all the headlines. God bless that this story got out there!
If only everyone acted this say 99% of the problems would go away. People have forgotten how to be kind to one another.
I believe 1011 100%
Great kid great parents real Americans.
10:11 I agree, this is the majority, but doesn't make for good TV.
Its gotten bad when doing the right thing, becomes exceptional.
I was with one of my daughters many years ago, when she was about 11, and we came up to where a small purse, and some of its contents were scattered in the middle of the street. Well we stopped and gathered all the items out of the street and found several hundred dollars, and several credit cards among the items. I told my daughter, here's what we do; first, try to identify the owner, which we did by looking through the purse and finding a driver's license. Then we looked up the owner's phone number and gave her a call. Turns out, she was a caregiver for an elderly lady just up the street from where the purse was found, and had looked for it as soon as she realized that she had left her job with it on the roof of her car. She had retraced her route, but couldn't find it, as I must have happened along soon after it fell off the roof. It was only three houses away from the elderly lady's house, but the owner of the purse lived in another town. I told her the inventory of what we had found, and she confirmed that nothing was missing.
She asked me to return it to the elderly ladies house, and that's what I and my daughter did, complete with all of its contents. And when we did, she had already called her employer and asked her to give us $20.00 for our "honesty" (doing the right thing). I did not want to accept it, but I allowed my daughter to accept the money as a reward "for us doing the right thing" and returning what was found, all of what was found, to the rightful owner. She never has forgotten the lesson that was taught that evening.
Its bad when doing the right thing is newsworthy.
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