Fast-Food Worker Returns $185,000 Check

NORWICH, Conn. – A fast-food worker who found a $185,000 check on the sidewalk said he didn’t think twice about trying to cash it. Reggie Damone, 47, who receives food stamps and works at McDonald’s in Lisbon, managed to track down the owner of the check, a landlord.

Damone took a bus Monday to the bank and returned the wayward check to the landlord’s niece, who thanked him with a $50 bill.

Damone said he found the check in an envelope he picked up from a sidewalk, intending to jot down a phone number on what he thought was litter.

Damone said although he knew the $185,000 could pay his rent and other bills for a long time, he was never tempted to try to cash it and splurge.

He said he remembered his mother’s words: If you take something, you lose three times that amount – and if you do something good, something good comes back to you.

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Information from: The Norwich Bulletin, http://www.norwichbulletin.com