Domino’s Customer Finds Money In Delivery Box — What He Did Next Earns Him Delicious Reward
A Berkley man recently had one of those moments when the devil and the angel are surely looking over your shoulder.
Mike Vegas, 42, ordered a Domino’s pizza and got much more than he bargained for. Instead of a container full of wings, he found a container full of $1,300, ABC7 News reported.
“I wrote a Facebook post and of course there’s a long list of people arguing you should keep it, you shouldn’t keep it. I wanted to keep it, believe me.”
It all started one Friday night, which Mike thought he was going to have off; he works as a bartender in San Francisco. Planning a relaxing night in, he ordered some pizza and wings from Domino’s, he told NBC Bay Area.
But his night was ruined when he got a call saying he’d have to come in to work. The Domino’s pizza was already there, so he ate a slice and put the rest of the food in the fridge. Then, he was off to work. All night, his phone rang incessantly, but he didn’t answer.
Seven hours later, Vegas was back at his apartment and got quite a shock.
My favorite story: guy orders #Dominos wings and gets a box full of cash. What would you do? Watch at 11pm #abc7now pic.twitter.com/uzHYLDZTQ6
— Natasha Zouves (@natashanzouves) September 20, 2015
“About 5 a.m., I got home from work and went to my refrigerator and pulled out what I thought was wings. It turned out to be 1,300 bucks.”
The money was rolled into two wads, one totaling $666 (which one commenter to Mike’s Facebook post pointed to as a sign he should give it back) and the other $623.
The money was in the delivery box itself, a “refrigerated deposit,” he said. And the person who’d been calling him all night was the delivery driver. Turns out, the poor guy had been on his way to the bank while delivering Mike’s pizza and popped the money into the wings box for safety.
And then forgot he’d put it there.
He posted the devil/angel ordeal on Facebook and got plenty of comments from people on both sides of the fence, some saying he should keep it, others saying he should bring it back.
But Vegas said he couldn’t keep the money, no matter how badly he wanted it, or the fact that — as he joked on Facebook — his kids needed money for a new car. He’d been a pizza delivery man himself when he was 16, for Pizza Hut, so he sympathized with the Domino’s driver’s plight.
He called Domino’s and told them he had the money and would be bringing it in, joking to himself that he hoped the chain would split the money with him. They did something even better — they offered him free pizza for a year.
Local news station ABC 7 filmed the interaction as the Good Samaritan walked in with the money. General Manager Zia Mumtaz was shocked and very grateful.
“Thank you so much for this, honest people are hard to find these days.”
Vegas said that he’ll have to buy a gym membership to work off all the Domino’s he plans to eat.
[Photo Courtesy Mike Flippo / Shutterstock]
