On the evening of Wednesday, April 17, Guty del Campo faced a dilemma usually encountered only in people’s imaginations.
As the native of Spain was headed into the Magnolia branch of U.S. Bank to deposit a check, he noticed something unusual beneath the ATM machine: a bunch of $20 bills lying on the ground.
To be exact: $540 worth, he said.
“It was like a movie,” the 38-year-old del Campo said. “I picked it up. Money, money, money. I couldn’t believe it.”
The Eastlake resident, who works in the wine business, pocketed the money and continued on into the bank where he deposited his check.
That night, del Campo had second thoughts. Not all of the people he told the story to encouraged him to return the money. Most of those who did, he noted, were women.
“It was not my money,” del Campo observed. “When I woke up in the morning, I said, ‘I’m going to return the money.”’
Which he did. At the bank, he said he was told someone reported a problem with the ATM about the time he deposited his check.
If some of del Campo’s acquaintances second-guessed his decision, affirmation came from where it really counts.
“My mother was proud,” del Campo said.
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