Youth Gives Up Dream of Car, Turns In Check
All 16-year-old Randy Frasier could think of when he found the $100,000 cashier’s check on the street was a shiny red Corvette.
“I looked at it hard two or three times,” Frasier said. “But I wouldn’t have done anything with it. That wasn’t the way I was raised.”
Frasier took the check to his principal at Tavares High School, Joe Mullen.
“I’ve never seen so many zeros in all my life,” Mullen said last week.
Mullen promptly telephoned United Southern Bank in Tavares, which issued the check.
The unsigned check belonged to a 91-year-old Tavares man who apparently lost it as he was pedaling home on his bicycle from the bank, said the bank branch manager, Janice Taylor.
When bank officials told the man who lost the check about the teen-ager’s good deed, the man insisted that the bank had not given him the check in the first place, Taylor said.
Frasier did not get any thanks from the elderly bank customer, who was not identified.
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