ALTON, N.H. - A 10-year-old boy picking up litter in a small New Hampshire town found a backpack stuffed with more than $8,000 cash.

Arie Johnston was helping his grandmother with her town's annual roadside cleanup when he spotted the burned backpack Saturday in Alton, N.H., about 90 miles north of Boston. He told the local newspaper, Foster's Daily Democrat, his first thought was that someone had killed someone for the money.

Arie's grandmother called the town clerk, who identified the bag's owner based on documents found with the money. The owner was a woman who had lived across the street until a fire damaged her apartment last year.

Police say the woman has since moved to Maine and has asked that her belongings be given to her sister who lives in Alton. Arie's grandmother says a reward may be coming.

My reward would've been $8,000. I wouldn't have turned it in.

right i would had kept it to and not say a word

With the medical bills I have...I would have said, "Money from heaven has fallen here for only mine eyes to see. I'm rich!!!"

Okay. I'm the odd one. I would have returned it. They said that the owner could be proven from documents. It would have been stealing to me.

Winx, I'd return the money too...I was just being funny. If I lost money, I would like someone to return it.

I would have taken out 4000 and return the bag by dropping it off at the address with a note:

-I have found your bag, I took out 4 grand, you are still better off with 4 grand missing than missing all of it. Others would have taken all so you should be glad it was me who found it.

Gotta return the money. It is the right thing to do. All of it.
I would have traced down the owner through paperwork as well. I have and would.

I got the best compliment today. The lady I found that money for last year comes into the store and was telling my other customers how I was the most honest person in there. She started by telling them about the money thing. I was very proud.

People here may remember that story. How I was trying to figure out how to find the owner of that money "cash" and get it to them. I did it though.

Kat

Same here. If I lost the money, I would like someone to return it too.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I am thinking honestly.........and not inside the box....or what is politically correct but I think I would have turned it in.

I would have felt too guilty knowing that the money could have been someone's life savings.........

I didnt earn it.......its not mine.

An opportunity for the boy to learn what doing the honourable thing is.... Kudo's to his granma!

ya gotta do the right thing

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after all how would you make the money legit

ya pay a major bill (you don't think that would flag somewhere)

be a knock on the door from the man in blue asking you where you got the money

and then what if it was learned that the money belonged to someone that was murdered

na ya got to do the right thing and hope no one claims it in 30 days