Homeless Man Returns Money

Article: BOSTON Homeless man gladly turns in found money A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler's checks said that even if he were desperate, he wouldn't have kept "even a penny." Glen James found the backpack at the South Bay Mall on Saturday evening. Inside the backpack was $2,400 in U.S. currency, almost $40,000 in traveler's checks, Chinese passports, and personal papers. - AP
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I chose this story out of the news paper then found the article online. I chose this article for a few reasons. One reason was in a world filled with death and negative news, I found this to be very positive. This man is homeless and most likely has nothing. Yet, he found a backpack with a little over 42,000 dollars in it and returns every cent. I find that very admirable. Another reason I chose the article was because it struck out to me how small it was. It is about 2 sentences long, buried on the 4th page in the margins. This is an incredible story and I found it by happenstance. To add to that, I couldn't find it on the Inquirer's website. I had to Google the exact title, copy an paste the article. It strikes me as odd that something so commendable is so hard to find, but a story about escalators can make the front page. To me, that is ridiculous. I really liked this extremely short article and find it upsetting that a reputable newspaper that has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes, as it so advertises, would rather print about escalators than a homeless man returning over 42,000 dollars.