Good Samaritan finds wallet stuffed with $500 in cash, then returns it

[el_em_en_oh]

VERO BEACH, Fla. —A Treasure Coast teen who lost his wallet said he learned there are still some good people in the world.

Jonathan King had left a Vero Beach doctor's office when he realized he'd accidentally left his wallet in the waiting room.

Inside it? $500 in cash to pay his bills.

King went back inside to see if it was still there, but had no luck.

That's where Lynne Jones came into the picture.

"I saw the wallet, so I picked it up," she said. "I counted the money and said, 'Oh, that's a whole lot of money in there.' So I said, 'Oh, look, their address is Vero,' and my son said, 'Why don't we take it by when we get back?'"

Jones said she and her kids got in the car and drove over to the address on King's driver's license.

"Did you lose something?" Jones said she asked King upon greeting him at his house. "And he just got this big smile and (said), 'Thank you so much.'"

King said he got a little emotional when he saw his wallet just hours after losing it.

"I almost broke down crying because I was just amazed about how there are actual good people in this world," he said.

King offered Jones a reward but she declined.

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[nursegirl6572]

R Glass....those lyrics are so approporiate!!!  Our media doesn't report NEARLY as much of the "good"!!!

[R Glass]

I believe there is still a lot of Good in this World but it probably doesn’t get more media coverage because of Ratings. Remember this song? It came out about 30 years ago.

I rolled out this morning
Kids had the mornin' news show on
Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Lebanon
Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy
It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story's one more than I can stand
Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
"Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today

I'll come home this evenin'
I'll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care
Whoa, tell me

Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today
And in the streets of Ireland, all the children had to do was play
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
We sure could use a little good news today

Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
FADE
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today

[specialmom]

I was just thinking the same thing.  I tend to think there is a lot of good in most people and they'd do the right thing if given a chance.  Glad to read when that happens.

[adgal]

Fantastic!  And personally, I still think there are more good then bad in this world.  Nice to see a story confirming that there are honest good people out there.

[el_em_en_oh]

Now THIS is more like it!

Unlike that EF'ing stupid woman that found the wallet in the store, and distributed the money amongst her children (then reluctantly gave it back, after she found out she was busted).

Stories like this make me smile.