With all the fraud I see and work with in my job this story just about made me tear up... I'm glad it made the news! :)
---Good Samaritan Returns Man's Signed Paycheck
Friday, April 23, 2010 7:33 AM
Shaun Siva said he was going to cash a paycheck last weekend when his boss asked him to make a stop at Staples to pick up some paper.
So Siva folded his check, put it in his pocket, and did as his boss asked, 10TV's Brittany Westbrook reported. But when he arrived at work, Siva realized that his nearly $500 check was gone.
"At first I was just thinking, it could be inside the house somewhere," Siva said. "I'm just thinking I didn't want it to be lost somewhere."
Even worse, Siva said, was that he had already signed the back of his check.
"I told my mom and sister and my dad to look everywhere," he said. "They told me that couldn't find it."
Siva's family was unable to find the check, but Robert Maddrey could not ignore it.
"I see this little check floating along, so I walked down to the library and got on the Internet and I looked up the address that was on the check," Maddrey said.
Maddrey then walked to Siva's house to make a special delivery. Siva's mother was the one who answered the door.
"At first she thought I was a salesman with Direct Energy trying to lower rates on the gas bills," Maddrey said. "I said, 'Is Shaun here?' and she said no. I said, 'Well, I found his check.'"
Then, Maddrey said, Siva's family then opened up its doors.
"They just offered me the world," Maddrey said. "Sandwiches and drinks, it was really nice."
Siva said he planned to meet Maddrey on Friday and say thank you in person.
"I want people to see this and say, 'You know, there are good people out there,'" Siva said.
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2010/04/23/story-columbus-lost-paycheck-returned.html
