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

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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By John Del Signore in News on January 27, 2009 12:10 PM

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inoyourider

Best story of the year!!!!

Larry

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

breaknight

Such a nice boy.

Leon Freilich

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

Octuplets born in Los Angeles. --news item

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.

donner

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

snoopydog

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

Neil Epstein

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

Think2wice

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

abzme

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

snoopydog

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?

Wza

Good for him!

Nice story.

TheKlaus

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.

snoopydog

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.