We all remember reading stories in the WT or Awake! about some righteous JW that found a bag o' money and returned it to the original owner--praise be Jehovah! Can I get an Amen?--as if no one else on earth would ever do such a thing.
[Insert Facepalm here]
I thought some of you might appreciate this little bit of news debunking yet another myth from JW-land:
Casino worker finds $10,000 in restroom, turns it right in
A cleaning woman at the Thunder Valley Casino near Sacramento, Calif., hit the jackpot when she found $10,000 in cash in the women's restroom last week. But the lucky woman didn't take the money and run. Instead, Meuy Saelee turned in the stack of Benjamins to her supervisor and got a nice bonus in return for her honesty.
No mention of Jehovah there!
Also in the story:
The Web is full of stories of people doing the right thing when temptation strikes.
Just a few months ago, an Austrian bus driver made headlines for returning a bag with 390,000 euros (nearly $510,000).
Last October, a Vegas cab driver found $221,510 in the back of his taxi; he returned it and got a $2,000 tip.
And in Singapore last November, a taxi driver found a bag with $900,000. When asked why he returned it, the man said, "The money is unimportant to me. It doesn't belong to me, so how can I use it?"
No mention of Jehovah there either!
Apparently there are honest people all over the earth that aren't JWs!!! How can that be?
My Cognitive Dissonance is making my head hurt!