On May 11, 2020, a 19-year-old young man found $135,000 in a clear plastic bag near an ATM. Jose Nunez Romaniz from New Mexico noticed the bag when he went to his local Well’s Fargo bank to make a deposit. While he didn’t know if it was a prank or a ploy that kidnappers were using to catch their next victims, Romaniz decided to play it safe and contact the police department. His honesty has been heralded over the past few days, and rightly so.
Sometimes we lose things that mean a great deal to us or to someone we know. While leaving $135,000 in cash by an ATM machine is one of the larger monetary amounts discovered laying around, some items have more sentimental value to their owners than the price tag the item could bring.
Anton Lulgjuraj was cleaning out the abandoned storage locker of Air Force pilot David Parent after the pilot’s death when he stumbled upon the wallet of Diane Hall. Her driver’s license, membership card into the Actor’s Equity Association (which expired in 1968), weathered photographs, and a name change certificate were all found within. Lulgjuraj could not believe what he was holding in his hands, nor could he figure out how this wallet came into the possession of an Air Force pilot. But one thing he did know: Diane Hall is now the famous actress Diane Keaton.
Lulgjuraj reached out to Keaton several times over the internet, with no success. It wasn’t until a news story broke out over the wallet that Keaton realized that he was trying to give it back to her and had no intention of selling it for profit. Grateful, Keaton reached out to Lulgjuraj and was reunited with her lost property.
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