A Berkeley, California, man returned a wad of cash accidentally delivered with his Domino's order. Now, the pizza chain is repaying him with a year's worth of free pies
A Domino's in Berkeley, California, has mistakenly delivered nearly $1,300 in cash in a box marked "Chicken Wings" over the past weekend. It turns out that the delivery driver had been on his way to the bank and the customer's house was his last stop. He put the cash in the wings box for safekeeping.
Mike Vegas, a bartender at AT&T Park in San Francisco, told NBC Bay Area he thought he was going to have the night off so he ordered some pizza and wings. But when he got called into work, he stuck the box of wings in the fridge unopened.
"I got off work really late, and when I came back home I found the cash in the delivery box - a refrigerated deposit. I was rubbing my eyes at 5 a.m., laughing at myself," Vegas said.
Vegas said the driver had called looking for the missing money, but since he had been at work, he ignored the calls. He posted an image on Facebook showing two stacks of bills - one containing $666, the other $633. He seemed inclined to return the money from the beginning, using the hashtag ‪#karmatest‬.
"Of course there's a long list of people arguing you should keep it, you shouldn't keep it, you should keep it, you shouldn't keep it. I wanted to keep it, believe me. But I can't, I can't do that," he told KGO, the local ABC station.
Some of Vegas' friends also worried that the driver would lose his job over the botched delivery.
"Driver is safe and keeps his job, money is back at Dominoes, I was offered free pizza for a year. Bonus-karma should drop by my place soon," Vegas wrote in an update.
Domino's was also happy they got their dough back. "Thank you so much for this. Honest people are hard to find these days," general manager, Zia Mumtaz said when Vegas returned the cash.