‘This is your luckiest day’: Good Samaritan hands in $10,000 cash after man, 20, accidentally drops it outside an art gallery
- An honest businessman has handed back $10,000 cash to the rightful owner
- Lucas Wells, 20, was at an art gallery when he dropped the cash from his pocket
- Mr Wells alerted the gallery manager who assisted him in finding the large sum
- Police contacted the 20-year-old that evening saying the cash had been given
An honest businessman has handed back $10,000 cash to the rightful owner after a man accidentally dropped it outside an art gallery.
Lucas Wells, 20, stopped to take a photo of a sculpture out the front of the Urban Paradise Gallery in Brisbane when the envelope with cash fell out of his pocket on January 3.
He was in disbelief when Queensland police called him at 6.30pm that night to say someone had handed the cash in.
'I was so relieved and surprised. The police said to me: ''This is your luckiest day''.'
An honest businessman has handed in $10,000 of cash and was returned to the Lucas Wells
Lucas Wells (right) dropped the envelope of cash from his pocket outside an art gallery and called manager Fredric Berjot for assistance
Mr Wells borrowed the large sum of cash in $100 notes for a car buying business and was on his way to tow his first car.
'I had it in my pocket because I didn't want to leave the money in the car,' he told City South News.
Mr Wells drove back to the gallery when he realised he had lost the cash and asked gallery manager Fredric Berjot if someone had handed it in.
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'I thought there might be a chance, if it turned up in the first hour,' he said.
Upon realising the 20-year-old entrepreneur was a genuine and hardworking man, Mr Berjot asked everyone he saw at the gallery to see if they had found the cash.
A businessman came forward and handed in the envelope, which had no name and therefore no way of knowing who the rightful owner was.
Mr Wells had stopped to take a photo of a sculpture outside the Urban Paradise Gallery when he accidentally dropped the large sum
Mr Berjot handed the $10,000 to Dutton Park Police.
'A lot of people park here because they see the sculpture and stop here to take photos,' said Mr Berjot.
Mr Wells has promised to be more careful with his cash in the future.
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