You know you’ve been there before — you look down and spotting that cash on the ground all by itself and nobody around. Maybe it was only a dollar, but maybe it was your lucky day and your eyes spotted a Finsky, or maybe it was an Andrew Jackson or many Andrew Jacksons, oh perfect world!
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You know you’ve been there before — you look down and spot that cash on the ground all by itself and nobody around. Maybe it was only a dollar, but maybe it was your lucky day and you spotted a Finsky, or maybe it was an Andrew Jackson or many Andrew Jacksons, oh perfect world!
You look around and decide what to do with it. Do you stuff it in your pocket? Maybe you decide to find the owner.
West Valley resident Wayne Faber recently decided to do just that.
As he and his wife were shopping for household goods recently, he found a hefty sum of cash folded up on the ground in one of the aisles at the Walmart at 79th and Peoria avenues.
I’ll leave the amount up to your imagination because only the true owner of that money and Mr. Faber know. And that’s all you need to know anyway.
He called the police for help, who referred him back to Walmart for assistance in finding the owner. But Mr. Faber, who has been a resident of Sun City for 60 years and is hard of hearing, didn’t feel comfortable with that. So he decided to contact his local community newspaper in hopes of finding the proper owner.
“I want to get the money back into the hands of the rightful owner,” he said. “We’ve been trying like crazy to get the money back to the proper owner because they probably need it more than we do.”
If this story sounds familiar to you, Mr. Faber is asking for, as he says, the proper owner to give him a call, 623-933-4776.
In a perfect world, an ill-intentioned person would move on from Mr. Faber’s righteous search. In a perfect world, the proper owner of this cash lost at Wal Mart, would somehow find this story and call Mr. Faber.
Philip Haldiman can be reached at phaldiman@newszap.com, or on Twitter @philiphaldiman.
Philip Haldiman is a third generation Arizona native with brief residencies on the east and west coasts.
He has bachelor’s degrees in Theater and Journalism at Arizona State University, and is an award winning journalist with more than 15 years worth of experience in reporting and editing.
Most recently, he took first place for investigative reporting and third place for best sustained coverage or series at the 2023 Arizona Newspapers Association awards.
In his free time, he produces an autobiographical comic book about his time spent in Hollywood and his life as a cult film star.