A Seattle elementary school is thanking a garbageman for finding nearly $12,000 in checks in the trash.
KOMO-TV in Seattle reports that Waste Management employee Micah Speir was picking up scattered trash next to some bins when he found a number of checks made out to Lawson Elementary School.
Principal Dorian Manza says he met Speir on his route and gratefully took the checks back. The funds were from a fundraising drive and a Parent-Teacher Association member had accidentally dropped the bag along the garbage truck’s route. When Manza tried to tip Speir for his good deed, the man turned him down.
Speir says his only concern was doing the right thing and returning the money to the school.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
That’s a good man and I’d do the same thing because I believe in the same thing: karma.
A bit more specificity is required in this article. The garbage man did not return money. He returned checks that were made out to Lawson Elementary School. Yes, it was a good deed. Yes, he would have had a problem trying to redeem the checks.
I agree with drbhelthi. Since the loot was in the form of checks, not cash, This was not a choice of good deed or spending the money!!! This was a choice of, good deed, or no deed!!! The return of the checks was not the good deed, The good deed was when Manza tried to tip Speir for his “good deed”, & Speir turned him down.
You may not be noting all the headaches that would have occurred from the apparently hefty checks still being out there and not received by the intended party. The writer would like desire to cancel the (for a price) and still wondering if there was someone in the system was not what they should be. Love order. it keeps things simpler, helping to harbor those needing things that way. Ultimately, everyone.