Article #14 - Fast food worker does a good turn 好心有好報的速食店店員

Reggie Damone just wanted to write down a phone number. So he picked up what he thought was litter on a sidewalk. But what he found was an envelope with a US$185,000 (NT$6 million) check in it.

Damone, 47, works at a McDonald's fast food restaurant. Because his pay is low he gets food stamps from the government. Even though he doesn't have much money he said he did not think about trying to cash the check. Instead, Damone took a bus from his home in Jewett City, Connecticut, US, to a bank. There he returned the check to the niece of the landlord to whom the check was written.

She thanked Damone with a US$50 (NT$1,600) bill.

Damone said that although he knew US$185,000 could pay his rent and other bills for a long time, he was never tempted to try to cash the check.

He says he remembered his mother's words: If you take something, you lose three times that amount - and if you do something good, something good comes back to you.