An Envelope Containing $200, and a Lesson In Doing the Right Thing

Picture this, you’re driving along one day and you find an envelope on the side of the road. It contains $200 in cash. Would you track down the people for whom it was intended, or would you simply keep it?

Lucky for Tarrytown, NY Assistant Fire Chief Dave Goldstein and his new wife, Teresa, someone decided to track them down.

That someone is Peter Palushaj of Thornwood, NY, and the $200 he found was a lost wedding gift to the Goldsteins, reports The Journal News.

“What’s not mine is not mine,” Palushaj told The Journal News. “I never considered keeping it.”

Instead, the husband and father of two, played amateur detective and took to the internet to find the “Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein” written on the envelop.

Inside the envelope, with the 10 $20 bills, was his second clue, a note addressed to “Dave and Teresa.” Some Googling led him to the couple’s wedding registry page and Teresa’s Facebook page. After writing a few messages that he had found one of their presents, he finally heard back from Teresa, and Palushaj’s wife, Liza, was able to deliver the money.

“She wouldn’t take a reward or anything,” Teresa Goldstein told The Journal News. “She just congratulated us on the wedding and wished us a happy life together.”

Maybe because the lesson the Palushaj’s were able to teach their children about doing the right thing was more valuable than a reward.

Click here to read the full story on The Journal News website.

Below are Dave and Teresa Goldstein from her Facebook page...