Man Finds, Returns $17K Found Near ATM

An Arlington Heights man damn near qualifies for what passes for sainthood these days after finding over $17,000 in cash and receipts near a Chase ATM in Rolling Meadows and returning it.

Bob Adams thought he was being pranked when he originally found the bag.

"Originally I thought it was a joke," Adams told Reuters on Friday, saying he wondered if the bag had been stuffed with fake money and placed on the strip mall's sidewalk by pranksters. "When I picked it up I knew it was cash," said Adams, 54.

Adams, who said he was raised to be honest, went to the nearest Chase Bank location. When he tried to return the bag to them, a teller said it wasn't their money. So Adams started sifting through the bag for clues and discovered the cash was supposed to go to a drugstore ATM several miles away, but employees for Loomis, the ATM-filling company mislaid it.

You can bet they were breathing a sigh of relief when they received the call that the bag was found.