A 63-year-old man in Germany had a very Merry Christmas indeed after an honest finder returned the backpack he had forgotten under a tree — filled with presents and 16,000 euros ($17,700) in cash. The 51-year-old finder alerted police after stumbling upon the bag near the centre of the western city of Krefeld shortly before midnight on Christmas Eve. The man who found the bag “refused a finder’s fee, because it was Christmas,” Krefeld police wrote on Facebook. In Germany, anyone who returns a found object is entitled to a finder’s fee based on the value of the item. In this case, the finder would have been 490 euros richer if he had accepted the reward.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2019 12:22 UTC