14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, a man in the US was lucky enough to find a fairly impressive bag of cash simply lying on the ground, as if waiting for somebody to come pick it up.
Rather than keep the money for himself, the man took the bag to the nearest police station and handed it over to officers there. In fact, he says he never even considered holding on to the cash.
When money goes flying through the air
It is understood that the man, identified as Dan Kennedy from Utah, found the money bag while driving to work early Tuesday morning. Well, technically speaking, he didn't actually find it.
Instead, he saw it fall out of a truck racing on Interstate 80 right in front of him. Apparently, the bag landed on the ground when the truck hit a bump and its back door opened.
Dan Kennedy says that the only reason he stopped to pick up the bag was that he wanted to make sure it would not go flying on the windshields of cars passing by and cause all sorts of trouble.
Much to his surprise, the man found that the bag was not quite a light as he believed it to be. Au contraire, it weighed about 50 to 75 pounds (approximately 23 to 34 kilograms).
When he opened it, Dan Kennedy found that it was so oddly heavy because it was full of banknotes neatly packed together in small packages. It is unclear just how much money the bag contained.
The pile of cash is now in police custody
Although the man took the bag of cash to the nearest police station just minutes after having found it lying on the ground on Interstate 80, it looks like nobody has so far stepped forward to claim ownership of the money.
Still, authorities are glad Dan Kennedy proved an honorable citizen and did the right thing. “He did the right thing for the right reason,” officer Brady Zaugg said in an interview with the press, as cited by The Salt Lake Tribune.