Stranger Finds Woman's Purse Filled With $10K And Brings It To Cops, She Comes Back With Reward

Jan 22, 2019 by apost team

Did you know that a whopping 34 percent of Americans have absoutely nothing in their savings accounts? Further, it's alarming to learn that a hefty 35 percent of adults across the United States have no more than $1,000 saved up. Since the majority of Americans are stressed for money, you already know how good finding a few thousand dollars in cash like Richard Tavema would feel. Wait, what?

Home to some 8.6 million people, New York City, New York is the largest city in the United States. Known as the "city that never sleeps" for a reason, the hustle and bustle in New York City never truly stops. With so many people walking on sidewalks, riding in cabs, driving cars, and stashed away in the upper floors of skyscrapers and other multi-floor buildings, can you imagine how difficult finding a specific person would be?

Richard Tavema was faced with this issue a few weeks ago when he was waiting on the subway to make its rounds, return, and take him home. Believe it or not - this is a true story, too - Richard saw an expensive Chanel handbag on the ground.

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He waited a few moments to see if its rightful owner would scurry back onto the platform, locate it, and take it away, but nobody came. As such, Mr. Taverna peered inside the fine leather handbag to scope out an identification card.

Richard, to his surprise, didn't find an ID. Rather, he found a thick, fully-filled envelope with $10,000 in cash inside the Chanel handbag.

Mr. Taverna carried the handbag home with him that day, carefully securing it in a secret hidey-hole so there was absolutely zero chance of somebody swiping it.

The next morning, Richard left home earlier than he usually did so he'd have time to stop by the New York Police Department. That's right - Richard Taverna turned the wad of cash and several-hundred-dollar handbag into officers at the 20th Precinct.

It turns out that the owner of the handbag had reported it missing earlier that day at the same police station Richard turned the handbag in to.

Fortunately for its owner, the handbag and its contents fully intact upon picking it up from the NYPD's 20th Precinct. The owner made a $1,000 donation to a charitable cause in Khazakstan in the name of Richard Taverna.

What would you do if you found a wallet with $100 in it on the elevator with nobody around? What about $10,000 in cash? Have you ever lost a significant amount of cash and had it returned?