He did the right thing, and now he has had more than $90,000 donated to help the man who is down on his luck and homeless. And that's just the total so far.
A homeless man in Boston turned over a bag that held tens of thousands of dollars to police and said even if he were desperate, he wouldn't have kept "even a penny."
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis honored Glen James Monday, thanking him for an "extraordinary show of character and honesty."
James, who said he had once been employee at a Boston courthouse, found a backpack at a local mall Saturday evening. He flagged down a policeman and handed it over. Inside, was $2,400 in cash, almost $40,000 in traveler's checks, passports and other personal papers.
The man who lost it told workers at a nearby store and they called police. Officers took the owner to a police station and returned the property after confirming it belonged to him.
James said he was been homeless since 2005. He said God always looked after him and he gets food stamps and panhandles to make money to do laundry, pay for transportation and buy other "odds and ends."
Apparently God has looked after him in a big way. A man from Alabama heard about James' story and decided to help him out.
Ethan Whittington had recently found out about a website for crowd-funding, so he set up an account to help pay back James for his good deed.
He thought he would raise $300 or $400, even though he set his original goal as $50,000. Within 48 hours of starting the page, there were more than 3,500 donors and they've given more than $90,000, closing in as of Thursday morning on $98, 000. Now the goal is $250,000.
Whittington is also talking with an organization that wil help him manage the project since he's received offers for computers, clothes and possibly a job and a home for James.
To help Whittington's goal of $250,000 for James, please click here.
