Heartwarming moment a Good Samaritan finds $27,000 in a box outside a credit union in Michigan and HANDS IT IN after a security guard accidentally left it on the sidewalk
- An armored security guard left $27,000 outside an ATM at a Michigan bank
- George Condash came across the case of cash and decided to hand it in
- Condash was later given a cash reward of his own for his honesty
A man found tens of thousands of dollars on the sidewalk outside an ATM machine by a Michigan credit union on Tuesday – and handed it in.
George Condash discovered the box of $27,000 sitting on the floor outside the Westland Federal Credit Union.
Surveillance footage saw him pick the box up and place it in the back of his car before driving off.
An armored security guard left $27,000 outside an ATM at a Michigan bank. George Condash is pictured finding the cash
Condash came across the case of cash as it sat on the sidewalk and decided to hand it in
Condash explained how he believed the case had $40,000 inside because of a label
‘I drove right around here and it was sitting about right here,’ Condash said. ‘Well, first, I just thought it was trash. For some reason it hit me that, “Why don’t I just pick this up so no one else has to swerve around it?”‘
He placed the case of cash into his car and pulled straight into a parking space right next to the bank.
He took the missing box of cash inside, and placed it on the counter.
‘I said, “Is there a reward for $40,000?” And I put it on their counter and they just looked dumbfounded,’ Condash said in an interview with WDIV.
Condash picked up the case and walked into the brand with the cash
He said to the staff, ‘Is there a reward for $40,000?’ as he placed it on the counter
The staff appeared to be dumbfounded at seeing the case of cash being placed on the counter
‘It’s not mine and any honest person, I would hope, would take it back in,’ Condash said when asked why he decided to do the right thing.
It turns out that an armored security guard who was delivering cash to the credit union left one of the boxes on the side of the street by mistake.
The surveillance video shows that the box was left untouched for almost 20 minutes before Condash got out of his car to take a look.
A tag on the side of the box indicated there was $40,000 inside.
Condash is being hailed a ‘good Samaritan’ by the local media, but he hopes others would have done the same
Condash was later given a cash reward of his own for his honesty by the bank staff
‘That was a lot of money that could have resulted in a significant loss, and we just wanted to give him a token of our appreciation,’ the bank’s cash manager Alicia Stewart told CNN.
The bank gave Condash a cash reward of his own.
Staff say that if he had not brought the money inside and instead driven off with the windfall, the police would have been called and Condash would have been tracked down through his car license plate that appeared on the surveillance footage.
‘I would hope that the average person would turn that in, but not everybody thinks that way,’ Stewart said. ‘Not everybody is cognizant of the cameras around them.’