A teen reeled in an unlikely catch while fishing on a Minnesota lake — a wallet containing $2,000 that he released to the rightful owner who lost it last 12 months.
Connor Halsa, 14, caught the dough while out on Lake of the Woods during a summer vacation with family.
“My cousin opened the wallet up, and he said some words you most likely shouldn’t say, and he showed everyone, and we took the cash out and let it dry out,” he told WDAY-TV this week.
Together with the 1000’s of dollars, a business card was also tucked contained in the wallet.
“My dad said we must always give it to the person, and I said we must always, too,” he told the news station.
After calling the number on the business card, the incoming freshman at Moorhead High School found Iowa farmer Jim Denney.
“I inform you what, I even have the billfold in my hands, and it continues to be hard to consider,” Denney told the station.
Denney went fishing at Lake of the Woods last summer when his wallet went swimming with the fishes, WDAY reported. He didn’t realize he lost it until he reached into his bib overalls to pay the bill on the resort he was staying in.
“They’d to drift me the cash for the entire deal,” Denney said. “That’s the (worst) feeling I ever had, didn’t have a penny on me.”
Denney recently traveled from Iowa to Moorhead, which borders North Dakota, where he met the Halsa family. He even reportedly tried to offer the teenager the cash, but Halsa said no thanks.
“We didn’t work hard for the cash, he did,” Halsa told the station. “It was his money.”