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Last month in Arizona a young man profited unexpectedly from choosing honesty over greed after finding a lost wallet.

14-year-old Cody Chalmers found the wallet while riding his bike in Chandler on May 2nd, finding 300$ cash and credit cards inside.

But even though he was in the middle of saving money for an electric dirt bike with a hefty price tag, young Chalmers didn’t waste anytime considering his good fortune.

Sending his mother a photo of the ID contained in the wallet, she was able to run some basic internet searches until she found a phone number.

Speaking with AZ Family, Chalmers said that he was happy he did the right thing.

“I thought that someone would feel really bad if they lost it, so I was like, I better return this,” he said, adding that he remembered immediately how his father reacted years ago when he lost his wallet. “It kind of taught me how bad it is to like take someone’s money, like because their wallet is basically their life.”

Impressed with her son’s honesty, Carrie Strecker made a boast post on a local Chandler Facebook page, remarking how Cody joked that he “was a Good Samaritan now HUH mom?”

Seeing the story of the lost wallet, another Good Samaritan decided that $3,500 of his own money was less important than rewarding Cody’s honesty and asked his mom to send him a link to the electric bike. He intended to buy it for Cody as a gift.

Now there are fewer cooler cats than Cody along the hot streets of Chandler, as he rides around on his black e-bike—which was sold be a company called, if it can be believed, “Integrity E-bikes.“

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