FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- A 17-year-old grocery bagger was ready to wash his hands in the bathroom at the Federal Way supermarket where he works when he saw a brown canvas money bag on the floor. Moisei Baraniuc was curious. He opened it and saw envelopes filled with money – “a pretty thick stack.”

Thick enough to add up to $10,000.

Stuffed with 50- and hundred-dollar bills, the bag contained the life savings of a Vancouver, Wash., man who accidentally left it in the men’s bathroom at Top Food & Drug on Nov. 13.

Baraniuc, a senior at Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, didn’t know the whole story at the time. He just put the bag on the counter and washed his hands while he thought.

“The first thing that went through my mind was keeping it,” he said.

And then the Ukrainian immigrant remembered what his father, Vitalie Baraniuc, always says at dinner at the family’s home in Pacific.

“My dad is always telling us in this life you’ve got to work for yourself,” said Baraniuc, who goes by the nickname Moses. “If you take what doesn’t belong to you, it will catch up to you.”

Interesting

Great story. A well raised young man. Thank you I needed that

i heard about that

here is another interesting one

a number of years ago they were building a new safeway store and a few days before that, a bum was going through the dumster that was on the side of the store and he found $3,000 torn up in a bag and took it over to the bank and they replace it and gave it back to him.

i've done the same thing. there's more to life than money,....loyalty and friends for life, make ten grand absolutely pale in comparison....and we do have to live accutely with our feelings when we finnish here....when i got out of my body, it was too easy to see. those who do this deed realize this sooner or later. it can keep us through karma, from getting the things that we want in the long run, if we make the greedy decision.

you're most welcome.

wow. that had to be hard to turn in.

yup... i'm still unsure what i would have done
and welcome to the mingle forums

A couple years back on Sanibel Causeway here in Florida some one found a safe and bags of money. Over 1 million dollars laying along side the road and turned it in. They say it was drug money dropped for some reason. I think I would have been in the Caribbean sippin some very strong drinks with those little umbrellas in them..

maybe you should look him up

could be a match made in

well hey the newz

it should have had it returned to him after 30 days if no one claimed it


he found it turned it in

no rightful claimer it should be his

I'm sorry, but what kind of idiot keeps his life savings in a paper bag and carries it around with him? Especially to sit it down and FORGET?! I probably would have had to teach him a lesson and spend it for him.

I will have to check on that. Havnt heard anymore about it. It was lying just off the road.

i bet they used the drug money line to confiscate it

the govt is the biggest crook of all

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the part of the fifth amendment no one takes about

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nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

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what about all the stuff they confiscate from those charged with a crime

interesting thought in my opinion

I remember reading about 2 boys who found drug bucks and turned it in.They got it back .

Im still trying to find out about the million found on Sanibel Causeway. It seems I can not find the answer.

alert the media!!another conspiracy is in the works!!