A teen from Santa Barbara, California, found a purse with $10,000 and, surprisingly, turned it in to his local police department, BuzzFeed News reports.
In a Facebook post, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s office credits 16-year-old Rhami Zeini with helping the purse full of cash find its way back to its original owner. The owner of the cash awarded Zeini with $100 for his honesty. She believes her purse fell off the roof of her car as she was driving.
“To me, I figured this is the right thing to do,” Zeini told KCOY. “I know I would want it back for sure.”
Zeini received an outpouring of praise for his good deed, while others admitted they would not have been so kind. “[You’re] a fine young man Rhami,” one Facebook comment read. “Your parents raised you well.” Other comments of support appeared on Twitter.
Good for him. Not many people do the right thing these days.
— christina ✡️ (@texantina) September 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/Brett36270509/status/1041730889582030854
Others questioned why the owner was walking around with so much cash on hand in the first place.
https://twitter.com/karkas132/status/1041723105050189824
Teen returns $10k in to a woman who carelessly lost it. She gave him 1% of it as a reward. Good deed or not I personally would feel like it was a slap in the face. Who walks around with $10k in cash like that in the first place?
— Rebel Nightwolfe (@RebelNightwolfe) September 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/chadb243/status/1041720110887649280
The teen doesn’t seem to regret his decision to return the money, though.
H/T BuzzFeed News
