Honest worker finds, returns fortune

BRISBANE, Australia, April 6 (UPI) -- An Australian landfill worker who described himself as "the richest bloke in the world" returned a bag with at least $20,000 to its distraught owners.

Nigel Gould, 43, could have kept the leather bag stuffed with big bills he found while working at the Ferny Grove transfer station in Brisbane Sunday, the Courier-Mail reported Tuesday.

But when he saw a couple in their 50s searching desperately for their lost money, he knew what he had to do.

"What you own is yours. Pretty old-fashioned, I am," Gould said. "Money's not a big thing to me. As long as the family's OK and the big fella upstairs is looking after me."

Another man who saw the bag and money said it contained far more than $20,000.

Gould, a married father of five, said life is good -- with or without a sudden fortune.

"I'm a very lucky bloke," Gould told the newspaper. "I'm the richest bloke in the world. I've got my wife and my family and the big bloke upstairs."