The Ultimate Integrity Test
This boy isn’t the only one who faced a moral dilemma. History is full of people who found fortunes and had to make a choice.
Take Joe Cornell from Fresno, California.
Joe was living in a rehab center, trying to get his life back on track, when he saw a bag fall out of a Brinks armored truck.
He opened it. $125,000 in cash.
He could have vanished. He could have started a new life.
Instead, Joe turned it in. Brinks was so blown away by his honesty that they gave him a $5,000 reward and a job.
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Or Adam Woldemarim, a Las Vegas taxi driver who found a laptop case with $221,000 in his backseat. He returned it to the gambler who left it. His reward? A $2,000 tip.
But the boy on the Danube? His reward was about to be much, much bigger.