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David and Emily Schantz left their Caroline County, Virginia, home with their children last Saturday and drove their pickup truck over what they thought was a bag of trash, then stopped and picked it up as well as another bag nearby, news sources reported Tuesday. The Schantzes tossed the bags in the back of their pickup truck and kept riding, according to Emily Schantz.
Only when the Schantzes returned home did they discover the bags contained money, she said. Inside of the bag, there were plastic baggies and they were addressed with something that said cash vault, Schantz told WTVR. They contacted the Caroline County Sheriffs Office, which sent deputies to the home. The deputies took inventory and determined the money totaled nearly $1 million.
Caroline Sheriffs Maj. Scott Moser said authorities have since determined where the money was headed, but are still trying to figure out how it ended up in the middle of a road in Goochland County. Moser would not say specifically where the money was going. But he said he hopes the recipients offer the Schantzes a nice reward.
Their actions deserve nothing less, Moser said. They saved someone a lot of money and set a wonderful example for everyone else.
https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/virginia-family-ride-finds-million-road-70771504
jimfields33
(15,450 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)orwell
(7,753 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)package of deli meat to a store clerk. I like a deal as much as anyone, but it was about $8 worth of turkey for a quarter. Two bags with a million dollars would be a whole lot harder to turn in. Hope they get a reward.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)with a tub of $5.29 pimento cheese. I did self-checkout, yukking it up with a clerk because we couldn't get the little tag for the potted impatiens to scan. The tub was tucked away behind one of the plants in the cart. Keeping a million dollars would be tempting, but considering I walked back into a store to pay for cheese, it's just not in my nature.