拾金不昧 鉅款全數歸還

A man in Utah discovered $45,000 (£28,000) stuffed into tins and boxes in the attic of the new home he had just bought – and gave the money back to the previous owner's six children.

Josh Ferrin was exploring the house he had just bought when he made the discovery.

Along with his wife and children, they spread out thousands of notes on a table, separating the bundles one by one. They stopped counting at $40,000.

Despite being tempted to keep the money to help him pay for mounting bills and broken down car, Mr Ferrin sought out the children of the home's previous owner, who had died, and gave them the money.

"I'm not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind. We knew we had to give it back, but it doesn't mean I didn't think about our car in need of repairs, how we would love to adopt a child and aren't able to do that right now, or fix up our outdated house that we just bought," he said. "But the money wasn't ours to keep and I don't believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children."猶他州鹽湖城的一名男子Josh Ferrin前些天買了一幢二手房，舉家搬進去之後，他開始審視舊房，在閣樓上，他發現了一堆塞滿了鈔票的盒子和罐子。

叫來妻子和孩子們後，Ferrin一家開始數鈔票，但是錢的數量實在太多，數到4萬美元的時候，他們乾脆不再數下去。

儘管Ferrin先生的經濟狀況並不寬裕，房子還沒裝修、車子也破破爛爛，但猶豫再三之後，他還是決定將這筆飛來橫財如數歸還。——房子的原主人早已去世，Ferrin找到了他的兩名也已經年紀不輕的後代，將錢大包小包地送了過去。

Ferrin表示，他雖然並不是完人，但不是自己的錢畢竟不能亂拿，能碰到這樣的機會，唯有盡力誠實友善，才能做好孩子們的榜樣。