Man Who Lost Wallet From Hot Air Balloon Gets Pleasant Surprise
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) – A man who participated in the Hearts A'Fire hot air balloon event in Colorado Springs over Labor Day weekend lost his wallet while flying and feared it would never be found, but he was wrong.
Apparently Dick Rice's wallet was lucky enough to land on the roof of the Harbor Freight Tools building and workers stumbled upon it while doing maintenance on the air conditioning unit.
An employee at Harbor Freight Tools returned Rice's wallet through the mail and wrote him the following letter:
"Dear Sir, while doing maintenance on our AC we found your wallet on our roof. I do hope the address on your ID is current. We must say in our store we have never found a wallet on our roof before and can only assume you were here for the hot air balloon event. Your friends, Harbor Freight Tools Store #58."
Rice said his wallet was returned with all his credit cards, airman certificate, driver's license, insurance IDs and $80 in cash.
"I am so impressed I thought everybody should know about these terrific folks at Harbor Freight. They didn't have to do that, but they did. In this era of entitlement and world turmoil, these folks took the time and spent a couple bucks to make someone else's life better," Rice said in a post on Facebook. "Thank you Harbor Freight Store #58."