Glass
19th September 2013, 06:23 PM
I couldn't find the original thread on this guy. I'm sure its been posted no?
Anyways he found the backpack in NY with all that chinese students travellers checks and flagged down a cop car. Someone started a donate page for him.
$100K in the first day. Looking to cap it at maybe $250K so the guy can have a house. Doesn't sound like he really wants one but no mind the cash would be handy.
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/09/20/4763210/729james-620x349.jpg
Honesty has - quite literally - paid off for a homeless man in the US who found a backpack containing more than $US40,000 in cash and traveller's cheques and immediately turned it in to police.
Now, well-wishers who learnt of Glen James' admirable deed have donated more than $US100,000 ($106,000) to help the 54-year-old get back on his feet.
God has always very well looked after me.
Mr James, a former courthouse employee who has been homeless since 2005, discovered the abandoned backpack at the South Bay Mall in Boston on Saturday afternoon.
When he unzipped the bag, he found $US2400 in cash, almost $US40,000 in traveller's cheques, a Chinese passport and other paperwork.
Rather than keep the money for himself, Mr James immediately flagged down a police officer and handed the bag over.
His actions earned him praise from the city's police chief, Edward Davis, who gave Mr James a special citation and thanked him for his "extraordinary show of character and honesty".
After reading about Mr James' selfless actions, a Virginia man who had never met Mr James set up an online donation page to reward his honesty.
"Let's all chip in and help this man change his life," Ethan Whittington, 27, wrote on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe (http://www.gofundme.com/4by2as).
Mr Whittington said he initially hoped to raise $US50,000 for Mr James, but that goal was achieved within a day of the site going live, and money was still pouring in.
When the Boston police chief thanked Mr James for his honesty, Mr James was asked if there was anything he would like.
He replied: “No war.”
Link to article (http://www.theage.com.au/world/homeless-mans-honesty-earns-him-100000-20130920-2u3hj.html) @ the Age
Anyways he found the backpack in NY with all that chinese students travellers checks and flagged down a cop car. Someone started a donate page for him.
$100K in the first day. Looking to cap it at maybe $250K so the guy can have a house. Doesn't sound like he really wants one but no mind the cash would be handy.
http://images.theage.com.au/2013/09/20/4763210/729james-620x349.jpg
Honesty has - quite literally - paid off for a homeless man in the US who found a backpack containing more than $US40,000 in cash and traveller's cheques and immediately turned it in to police.
Now, well-wishers who learnt of Glen James' admirable deed have donated more than $US100,000 ($106,000) to help the 54-year-old get back on his feet.
God has always very well looked after me.
Mr James, a former courthouse employee who has been homeless since 2005, discovered the abandoned backpack at the South Bay Mall in Boston on Saturday afternoon.
When he unzipped the bag, he found $US2400 in cash, almost $US40,000 in traveller's cheques, a Chinese passport and other paperwork.
Rather than keep the money for himself, Mr James immediately flagged down a police officer and handed the bag over.
His actions earned him praise from the city's police chief, Edward Davis, who gave Mr James a special citation and thanked him for his "extraordinary show of character and honesty".
After reading about Mr James' selfless actions, a Virginia man who had never met Mr James set up an online donation page to reward his honesty.
"Let's all chip in and help this man change his life," Ethan Whittington, 27, wrote on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe (http://www.gofundme.com/4by2as).
Mr Whittington said he initially hoped to raise $US50,000 for Mr James, but that goal was achieved within a day of the site going live, and money was still pouring in.
When the Boston police chief thanked Mr James for his honesty, Mr James was asked if there was anything he would like.
He replied: “No war.”
Link to article (http://www.theage.com.au/world/homeless-mans-honesty-earns-him-100000-20130920-2u3hj.html) @ the Age