Have you ever wondered what you would do if you found someone's money left behind? I'm sure there are many options we can convince ourselves it would be fine to do, from tracking down the owner, to keeping it ourselves, to taking a little off the top as a finder's fee. But as this story shows, some people will do the selfless thing regardless of what position they are in. James John McGown, a homeless man in Glasgow, Scotland, spotted a car when he was passing by the city's Sheriff Court recently. Not only was its passenger window completely down, but there was a handbag on the front seat. James looked for the owner of the car, but after being unsuccessful, he decided to wait for them to return, guarding the car from theft in the meantime. After two-and-a-half hours of waiting in the pouring rain, he decided to search the bag for ID. He found £400 ($533) of cash in the handbag, but no ID. Without taking a penny, despite his dire need for shelter, he left a note in the car and headed to a nearby office building where he handed the bag in for safe-keeping. Eventually, the car owner John McMonagle returned, along with colleague Alyshia Orford, to find the note. John, the owner of McMongle's chip shop in Clydebank, praised James for his generous instincts. Speaking to Glasgow Live, he said: "I was in shock, I couldn’t believe that the guy never took a penny. To think he is sleeping on the streets tonight when he could have stolen the money and paid for a place to stay. It just proves there’s decent guys out there and especially at Christmas." "He came back to the car when I was there and I gave him £40 ($54) and thanked him, but I'll go buy him boots and a good sleeping bag as well. I want to do something to help the guy." John also shared the story on his Facebook page, where he detailed the story and noted that James is "an absolute gentleman". [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1486406471454765&set=a.408390602589696.1073741825.100002562798769&type=3]] He is yet to find him again, but has urged people to get in touch if they see James, and set up a GoFundMe page for him. In just 24 hours the page already surpassed its £5,000 ($6,700) goal, with any additional money being donated to the homeless community in the city. "We are raising money for James John McGeown and homeless people in Glasgow and Clydebank," the GoFundMe page reads. "The money will be entrusted to John McMonagle to use for the above - also the first £5,000 will go exclusively James John McGeown." James' luck is already on the upswing, as another generous person has offered him a free place to stay for three months in addition to some work if he chooses to take it. Hopefully James can be found again so that he can be properly rewarded for his actions.

Here's a hypothetical question: if someone gave you $17,000, and then took it away, how would you react? Probably not very well I imagine. Well, one person out there was so honest and good-hearted that they found 17 grand lying around, and actually gave it away. The kicker? This person was actually homeless themselves and in a state of poverty so dire that most people would expect them to take the cash and run. Now the incident has hit social media, with many claiming that this kind soul has restored their faith in humanity.

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Kevin Booth is a homeless man who frequents the Sumner Community Food Bank in Washington. Booth relies on food banks to eat, and has been without a permanent address for the past seven years. He mostly survives by couch-surfing or by staying in group homes. He is unable to work without his welfare being cut off. On August 23rd 2018, Kevin went up to the overnight food box at the bank, and discovered a paper bag filled with piles of bank notes.

Instead of rushing off with the cash, Kevin left the money outside the door at the bank. A volunteer there discovered it at approximately 7.30am (initially thinking it to be a donation) and called the police regarding the issue. They only discovered that Kevin had given back the money by watching footage recorded by CCTV cameras poised over the door. 90 days passed without anyone stepping forward to claim the cash, which means that the money can be kept by the bank to expand their services.

Commenting on the incident, food bank executive director Anita Miller stated: "We just thought it was food and picked it up and went to carry it in. And then we realized it was something else and opened it. It was $17,000 in a brown paper bag ... It had to stay with the police for 90 days and then it was returned to us because nobody ever claimed it."

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She added: "Kevin was so very proud of himself because he had done this and he knew it was the right thing, which kind of makes the story just the best story on earth. It restores all of our faith in mankind. It also shows that the people that are homeless, there’s a lot of good out there too that are just suffering from some tough times."

Meanwhile, police chief Brad Moericke commended booth for his altruism and honesty, telling him that: "Not every citizen would be as honest as you in this situation." Not only that, but on top of everything else, a GoFundMe page has been set up by a woman named Desiree Almonte, to raise money for Kevin. Almonte wrote "We are ready to help him now. Let's see this man get into a place of his own and make this an amazing Christmas for his kind soul."

Why not make a donation? It sounds like Kevin deserves it.

One of 2017's most heartwarming stories has recently become a lot more complicated.

Towards the end of last year, Kate McClure's story went viral, after a homeless man helped her out of a dire situation. Stranded by the side of a road after her car broke down, she met Johnny Bobbit. Johnny donated his last $20 to get her home. Out of gratitude, Kate shared the story with the world, hoping to raise money on GoFundMe to change Johnny's life.

Once the story went viral, the figure rose from a modest sum to over $300,000 in just two weeks. The intention of the fundraising was to buy Johnny a house, a goal that thousands wanted to help with, bringing the number to over $400,000 at the time of writing. By December 3, McClure reportedly tweeted that Bobbitt had "bought his new house yesterday," and it seemed that the story had reached a lovely end.

However, Bobbitt has now claimed that he has been unable to access the majority of the money raised for him, and that this money is being withheld by him by McClure, and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, he revealed that not only is he homeless once more, but he has relapsed into drug use.

Instead of the house McClure said they were to buy, some of the money was used to by him a campervan, but he eventually sold it as he struggled to get over his addiction, with the remaining money given to him spent on drugs or given to his family. Now, he has denied their claims that they had spent half the money on him, and says that whatever is left of the money raised is being controlled by the couple. D'Amico confirmed that $200,000 of the remaining money is in a savings account that will dispense when Bobbitt gets a job and is drug-free. Later, he said he reconsidered and gave Bobbitt $400 in cash and gift cards.

Speaking to The Inquirer, D'Amico said, "Giving him all that money, it's never going to happen. I'll burn it in front of him." He then added that giving the money raised to him, while he is still addicted, would be like "giving him a loaded gun".

In response to this, Bobbitt questioned the couple's motives, suggesting that they may even be spending the money on themselves.

Bobbitt has said that he noticed during his time with them that D'Amico spends a lot of gambling websites. In addition, the couple have been seen on various vacations to LA and Las Vegas, buying a new BMW, and attending an expensive New Years party for which tickets costed over $2,000. McClure later shared a photo of a limo driver picking her up from the airport. The couple have insisted that all these purchases are from their own money, earned as a receptionist and a carpenter.

"I think it might have been good intentions in the beginning," Bobbitt told the Inquirer, "but with that amount of money, I think it became greed".

Bobbitt has confirmed that he is currently looking into legal options, and has contacted lawyers. Speaking to this issue, a spokesperson from GoFundMe stated that they will be looking into the issue to ensure the money has been handled properly:

"GoFundMe is looking into the claims of misuse regarding this campaign. When there is a dispute, we work with all parties involved to ensure funds go to the right place.

"We will work to ensure that Johnny receives the help he deserves and that the donors' intentions are honoured. GoFundMe always cooperates with Law Enforcement investigations."

Regardless of what Bobbitt was using, or will use, the money for, I'm sure the 14,347 people who donated money to him will be disappointed to learn that he isn't receiving the full sum.

Ah, McDonald's. It's the center of corporate conglomeration and a community center at the same time. People come to play chess, drink coffee, eat food or just sit and be left alone. But it seems that when something goes down at a fast food establishment, rarely is it a Wendy's or a Popeye's where some wild stuff is happening. It's always McDonald's. Statistically, it would make sense - there's just more McDonald's on Earth than any other fast food restaurant, I'm sure. Enter Edward Wright. No, not Edgar Wright, the director of Hot Fuzz. Edward Wright is a homeless man who had been drinking heavily and not taking his usual medications when he walked into a McDonald's in Devon, England around 6:30 am. It's always sad when somebody has nothing left to lose, and has gone so far into their spiraling that any course of action seems better than doing nothing. It's a person going supernova, who slipped between the cracks and found himself without meaning. It's a sad day for someone's child to end up in that kind of situation. Edward Wright was robbing a gas station when he noticed the McDonald's nearby, and walked up to the glass windows. He had a knife in his hand, and was exceedingly drunk from the night before. Growing increasingly desperate, he made the headline-worthy motion - he took out his d**k and began waving it around, the manager and crew watching as their would-be robber suffered a kind of mental breakdown. The workers at the McDonald's had locked the doors as he banged on the windows, and Wright was eventually arrested without further incident. An English judge, Robert Linford, slammed him with charges ranging from armed robbery to exposure. Here's the Judge's statement: "You were threatening and menacing and completely out of control. "You threatened someone by making demands of their keys and wallet and the person concerned flees. "You, it seems, head off to McDonald’s nearby. You try to get in and smash the door. "You wave your genitals around because you are drunk and stupid. On top of all that, you threaten Mr Milner who happens to be just minding his own business. "I accept the very difficult circumstances you were living in. That was not your fault that you were homeless. "It’s to your credit that you’ve expressed remorse and accepted your behaviour was threatening but the fact remains that you were under the influence of a cocktail of alcohol and drugs." Here's the problem, though - the Judge was gladly merciful in his analysis, but what will become of Mr. Wright after this 32-month prison sentence? To get drunk and rob a McDonald's while homeless is to hit the absolute bottom of human experience. Are we serious about rehabilitation, or do we seek only to punish? It seems that treating his addiction problem would be the first step to getting him off the streets. And it's not just Wright - being homeless is a mental and physical jail of the worst kind. It's so bad that getting arrested for exposure and robbery is preferable to sleeping the night away sober on the ground. It's a sad situation for all involved.

Take a walk through any busy part of a city centre the world over, and there's a good chance you'll come across a homeless person either huddled under a doorway, or out on the street asking for spare change. It's a sad part of modern life that through one misfortune or another, some people end up without a roof over their head, and when we can, we should try to do our best to help.

Of course, when homeless people show up in public places like restaurants, begging for money or food, it's in the eateries' best interests to move them on, lest they drive away business. But when a Hardee's in South Carolina called the police on one such homeless man, nobody could have envisioned the manner in which that encounter ended up being resolved.

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Officer CJ Mullinax from Horry County Police Department was called to a Hardee's last Saturday, after someone called the cops on a homeless man that was reportedly "asking for scraps". Employees said they had been feeding the man for days prior to the 911 call, but employee Victoria Paige Summer said Mullinax "handled the situation perfectly".

In a now-viral post on Facebook complete with a 20-second video, Summer revealed how the cop not only treated the homeless man with dignity and respect, first asking the man if he was hungry, and then pointing to the menu with a grin.

"Police were called to our restaurant today because a homeless man was asking people for their scraps to eat. This police officer bought the homeless man food and handled the situation amazingly!" said Summer, and in the comments, people were equally delighted with Mullinax's kindness and generosity.

“He was begging for scraps, not money…God bless him for being willing to feed his fellow man!” said one Facebook user, while another made a good point about the role of police in modern society: “People forget that the police are there to not only protect but also to serve."

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So popular did this particular post prove, one user even managed to identify the homeless man in the video - apparently, the homeless man featured in this story is a veteran by the name of Donald.

“He served in the Army from 1978-1981 then got out, worked in construction and then hit a wall which brought him to a point in his life that walked him down the road to homelessness…. his family doesn’t talk to him and he’s the nicest guy,” the local said, and let's hope that Mullinax's act of kindness can help this man to get back on his feet.

Even better, this apparently isn't the first time that Mullinax has used his badge to do his bit for humanity. Back in 2015, the cop went viral for taking the time out of his busy day to throw a football with some kids. "That's good ol Mullinax", said one commenter back. It appears that in an age where police brutality is seemingly rife, there are still plenty of cops out there who are willing to protect and serve in equal measure.