Hidden treasure: what would you have done?

Question

I'm a cable tech. A few years ago, an installer colleague was doing work in a subscriber's basement, alone, and while running a new line along the ceiling, knocked an old coinpurse down from the rafters. The subscriber had moved into the house within the past year, and the coinpurse had clearly not been touched in many years. My colleague is a curious sort of guy, and opened it to find over $2200 in bills printed in the 1940s-50s. He put the coinpurse back in the rafters and tried not to think about it anymore.

Keep in mind:
It had been abandoned by whoever put it there.
The homeowners certainly didn't know it was there.
Cable guys don't make much money.

What would you have done?

Answer 1

Kept it.

Answer 2

From a spiritual sense of the situation: We have no right to take what is not given to us! It was not gifted and the man who put it back was smart enough to understand that karma would come back as a result of taking this. Anyone who understands life and way it works knows this without a doubt. It is called Universal Law and by taking things that are not yours to start with brings peril of indescribable ways. This man who put it back is very very wise to have done so! Sometimes we also have what is called intuition and do things and don't know why but somehow we know its for our own good. To have something come back to you negatively ten fold holds no temptation for someone like myself and hopefully you will realise this also. Universal Law goes both ways and I can't tell you how many times Ive come out smelling like a rose because Im aware of my actions and have always tried to do well to others.