Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Pennsylvania homeless man returns cash to owner

John Kavanaugh, a homeless man in West Chester, Pennsylvania, stepped on an envelope on the ground last week, causing a pile of $50 and $100 bills to spill out. According to an NBC Philadelphia report, Kavanaugh immediately turned the $1,440 in to the local police. When asked why he didn’t use the money to help his own situation, Kavanaugh said, "If it was somebody's rent money, you know, they could use it." The cash belonged to Robert Stauffer, an attorney who was planning to use the money to record some mortgages. Stauffer planned to meet with Kavanaugh to offer a reward. In addition, the attorney plans to give a donation to any shelter Kavanaugh goes to, “so he gets a little special treatment."