Today's Good Deed Involves a Bus, Old Lady, and $500K

Vienna driver finds bag filled with fortune, hands it over to police
By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 6, 2012 11:58 AM CST
Today's Good Deed Involves a Bus, Old Lady, and $500K
A bus driver in Vienna found a forgotten bag on his bus containing more than $500,000.   (Wiener Linien: http://www.wienerlinien.at/eportal/ep/channelView.do/pageTypeId/9424/channelId/-16976)

Today's dispatch from the Good People Still Exist Department: When a bus driver in Vienna got to the end of his route, he discovered a bag left behind—that just so happened to contain a small fortune, reports Reuters. "At first I thought it was shopping or medicine," he said. But when he opened the bag, he found it was stuffed with 500-euro bills, totaling 390,000 euros—about $509,700. The honest driver handed the bag in to police, who were able to trace it, via a bank slip inside, to the elderly woman who had forgotten it. (More Austria stories.)

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