Stiiiiiiiiingy

We're told by our elders that virtue is its own reward, that we should do good things just for the sake of doing them, and that is all true, but then again, what's fair is fair.

Here's what I'm talking about: a guy in Germany found a lost check fluttering along the ground as he was on his way home after visiting his mother. It was a check for $4.8 million, made out to Haribo, the people who gum up your teeth with those little gummy bears.

 It was what they call a crossed check - a check that is preprinted with FOR DEPOSIT ONLY - and when the man, whose name is Anouar G,  called Haribo, they told him to destroy the check and send them a picture to show what he did.

The check was in payment of the account of German supermarket chain Rewe, and any way you look at it, that's a lot of hay. In Euros, it comes to €4,631,538.80, which sounds like even more, somehow.

 

Not long after, the mailman brought his reward - a thank you gift box containing candies.  Anouar thought that was a "a bit cheap." Six packs of Haribo candy in exchange for his honesty and for saving the company millions of dollars worth of massive PITA...I dunno.

Not that he could have done anything with the check, and not that he would have wanted to anyway, but gee whiz, right before the holidays is no time to be closefisted and mingy. 

At the very least, they could have donated a sleighful of candy and goodies to disadvantaged kids, you know what I mean?

Maybe sets of ice skates or rollerblades to kids in group homes, to show the company is not really a bunch of cheapskates!