Breaking: Boy Finds Wallet Full Of Cash, Gives It To Grownups!

012709wallet.jpg 10-year-old Kemoy Gourzang was walking to school in East Flatbush Friday morning when he found a wallet on the sidewalk stuffed with over $500 in cash. But instead of doing what we would have done at his age—blow it all on Transformers and Garbage Pail Kids—Gourzang took the wallet to his school's principal, who used a business card in the billfold to contact the owner. The unidentified man was so relieved to have it back that he gave Gourzang a $100 finders fee, which the honorable little lad promptly invested on a video racing game called Midnight Club 3. "I was pretty excited," he tells the Daily News. "I went straight to Toys 'R' Us." But Gourzang still has $50 left, and is apparently going for the title of sweetest little boy in all the land: The rest of the money will be spent on Valentine's Day, "to buy a Teddy bear with angel wings, milk chocolate and maybe a necklace. For my mom."

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Nice story. Kemoy sounds like a good kid.

Wait till the dude gets his credit card bill and finds that a Cadillac Escalade was charged to it.

Do you realize how much grief the guy was saved by having the wallet returned? The cheap mother should have given him $250.

The title of this story should be "Complete Idiot Finds Wallet Full Of Cash, Gives It To Grownups!:

Just kidding. Glad there's still honest people out there.

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Good for him!
Nice story.

What kind of name is Kemoy Gourzang? It's not Irish or Italian. Is it a name someone made up for a video game? Kind of like Leonard Nemoy, but backwards?

Obama's president for a week and already the kids are behaving!

I love it; press coverage used to speak to the better angels of our nature.

Well I'm just glad the Daily News included a photo of him. Otherwise I wouldn't have believed kids like this still existed.

Great job done by the kid. I bet his father is proud of him.

Finally a story that actually deserves a quote from the parents along the line of, "he's actually a really good kid..."!

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MOM TO BREAST-FEED*

Americans as usual

Are coming through;

Help is promised

By the L.A. zoo.

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*So she says. Really.

Can't believe that cheap bastard only gave him $100.

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