A delight to diogenes.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Larry Hoffman's ethical behavior in returning the shirt he sold along with the money he found in its pockets)(Brief Article)

Diogenes is said to have wandered throughout ancient Greece carrying a lantern and searching for an honest man. Too bad he never made his way to Wisconsin. Larry Hoffman, a 69-year-old retired sales engineer from West Bend, Wisconsin, often stops at a local Goodwill Store. "Being retired, it's a habit of mine to stop in and peruse for bargains," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Hoffman found a shirt that was a bargain, but when he brought it home and tried it on, he found that he had received much more than he bargained for: there was $2,000 stuffed inside one of the shirt's pockets!

Some individuals would have struggled with a moral dilemma about what to do, but not Hoffman. He immediately returned the shirt (which proved to be too small) and the money to the store.

"The money certainly wasn't mine. It belonged to somebody else, obviously," ...