Honesty is the best policy! An unemployed teacher in the US brought the old adage to life by returning a bank bag containing USD 20,000 after finding it on roadside.
Scott was on her way home on Tuesday morning after dropping her cat off at the vet when she spotted something strange on a road in College Station, Texas.
"It looked like a gallon-size baggie with a blue zipper on top," Scott was quote by The Eagle as saying.
"I was in the left turn lane to turn on Arrington (Road) to come home. It just barely caught my eye, and I thought it was money, then was like, 'Nah, it's probably a dirty diaper," she said.
The thought nagged at her, and curiosity quickly won out.
Scott circled back in time to see a dump truck run over the bag in the middle of the left turn lane. She stopped and picked up what was certainly not a diaper.
"There were two huge bundles of hundred dollar bills wrapped in rubber bands," Scott said.
Scott, a former middle school teacher for the College Station school district, had apparently stumbled across hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from a nearby Chase bank.
Scott said she didn't know what to do initially and mulled calling 911 or driving it to the police station.
"At first I thought it was drug money or somebody threw it," Scott said. "I was kind of scared when I got it until I saw the Chase label on the bag."
Greg Hassell, a regional spokesman for Chase, said the amount in the bag was about USD 20,000.
