Since Norway is one of the world’smost generous area , it only makes sentience that some of its resident would deal the trait . According to the Associated Press , a gentleman’s gentleman in Oslo recently found nearly $ 40,000 hidden underneath the hearth of his newfangled flat — and he gave it all to brotherly love rather of collecting on a serendipitous payday .
Vemund Thorkildsen , a 27 - year - erstwhile Norwegian actual estate agent , found the money while prove off the place to his friends , The Local reports . While hypothecate whether a fireplace could be travel to another room , Thorkildsen lifted one of its top stone slabs . An object inside the flue grab his eye , and Thorkildsen ’s companion helped him climb inside the canal . Thorkildsen end up finding four envelopes stuffed full of Norse coin bank note . The total sum ? Nearly 350,000 Danish krone , or $ 38,000 .
“ To lead off with , I part out into a frigid fret . After that , we hopped around screaming . I thought this was only something that happened in bad American motion-picture show , ” Thorkildsentold Norwegian paperVerdens Gang .
Thorkildsen and his friends celebrated the discovery . “ But then I thought , this not my money , ” he told the Associated Press . Since the elderly couplet that lived in the apartment before him had donate their estates to a Norwegian cancer foundation prognosticate Kreftforeningen , Thorkildsen decided to keep their generosity going and give the hard currency to the nonprofit ( he had purchase the flat from Kreftforeningen ) . Plus , it “ felt gracious to give it to something full like the malignant neoplastic disease foundation , ” he told the AP .
While Thorkildsen said it would have been nice to spend the money on a holiday , his act earned him extolment from spiritualist outlets — and admiration from Kreftforeningen . “ I ’m impressed that someone can be so honest . He could have easy not told anyone about it , so we are happy that he gave the money to us , ” Ole Aleksander Opdalshei , a spokesman for the cancer society , toldVerdens Gang .
[ h / tThe Associated Press ]
