Christmas may have come early for one little boy.
Last week, Tyler Schaefer, 10, discovered $10,000 reportedly stashed in a drawer in a Hilton Kansas City Airport hotel room, where he and father Cody had stopped for the night.
But instead of going on a gift-crazy shopping spree, the duo handed over the money to authorities.
No one has come forward yet to claim the cash.
According to the Kansas City Star, if no one makes a rightful claim to the funds for a period spanning seven months, the trove of wayward greenbacks would revert to the finder under Missouri state law.
Just in time for Christmas.
“We didn’t know what to do at first,” Cody Schaefer reportedly said of the moment his sonfound the money.Although, that’s not to say he was at all surprised over the find.
“He looks for stuff at random,” Schaefer told The Star of Tyler’s affinity to go looking for the next bit of treasure. “He’s very observant.”
Eventually, father and son summoned two off-duty officers working as security guards at the hotel, and gave them the cash. The Kansas City Star reports Sgt. Randy Francis, a property and evidence supervisor with the city’s police force, subsequently logged and stored the cash at a police facility.
Francis told the paper the find represents the largest windfall recovered – and then turned over — during his 13-year stint in police property and evidence . . . by a factor of 10!
Meanwhile, Schaefer, a South Dakota truck driver and mechanic, wasn’t sweating over the potential of either reclaiming – or losing out on – the improbably found cache of cash. “I didn’t come there with $10,000 and I didn’t leave with $10,000, so it was a wash,” the well-meaning dad told The Star.
Click to read the story in The Kansas City Star.
Via: Fox News
