Doris La-Hediny, 62, allegedly pocketed an envelope stuffed with $1,800 cash that was accidentally left at a checkout stand by the harried customer in front of her.

Leesburg police said the cashier asked La-Hediny if the envelope was hers and that store security video showed her checking the contents and then sticking it in her purse.

The Orlando Sentinel said the cash belonged to a 25-year-old fast-food worker who had received the cash as a loan from his mother to pay off overdue bills and buy groceries.

Philosophy professor Mason Cash of the University of Central Florida told the Sentinel that people react in odd ways when they find something of value.

"Some people may decide that it's right for them to keep something valuable they found by reasoning mistakenly that, 'Here's the universe smiling on me' or they may take the position that, 'This is the kind of

good luck I've been praying for,'" Cash said. "Others might focus on what is right or how they might feel if they had lost it rather than found it."