A California woman was happily surprised to find $36,000 buried in the cushions of a sofa given away for free on a classifieds site — but hastened to return the money to its owners.
Vicky Umodu was looking to furnish her new home for a small fee and was pleased to find this sofa. “I just moved in and I have nothing in the house,” she told local channel ABC7 from her home in Colton, near Los Angeles.
But once at her home, Ms Umodu found a suspicious dent in one of the cushions: several envelopes filled with cash, each containing thousands of dollars.
“I used to say to my son ‘come, come!’ I was screaming ‘it’s money! I have to call the gentleman,'” she said.
With exemplary honesty, Ms. Umodu therefore contacted those who had given her the sofa to inform them of her find and return the money.
The family, who were emptying the house of a recently deceased relative, replied that they did not know anything regarding the presence and origin of this money.
But to thank Mrs. Umodu, they gave her more than 2000 dollars, enough to buy the new refrigerator she needed. “I wasn’t expecting a penny,” she assured.
