Dan Dotson, auction house owner and frequent star of Storage Wars on A&E, was recently told a yarn so compelling he simply had to take to the internet and pass it along to his fans.
What would you do if you came across $7.5 million in an abandoned storage unit, only to be approached by the money's real owner shortly thereafter?
Watch the story being told here.
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The story, told to Dotson by a woman at an event, involved a man who had bought an "abandoned" storage unit at auction for $500 (after a certain amount of time left unused or unpaid for, storage units are available to be sold by the establishment's proprietors).
Inside, the man found a safe.
Inside the safe: treasure.
Dotson told the tale in his video:
"The first person they called to open the safe, I guess, couldn't, or didn't, so they called a second person. When that person opened it up, inside the safe — normally they're empty, but this time it wasn't empty— [and] it had $7.5 million cash inside."
Naturally, the unit's buyer was overjoyed.
However, that $7.5 million didn't appear out of thin air—it belonged to someone who had stowed it in the storage unit.
Before long, the buyer was approached by an attorney with a proposition: return most of the money to its original owner and they could keep $600k off the top.
The attorney would later raise the offer to $1.2 million, making the deal a little more palatable.
The buyer relented and decided to go through with the deal, losing some of his $7.5 million but ultimately walking away with nearly $1.5 million on a $500 gamble.
Dotson and his wife Laura debated whether or not they would keep the money, with Laura saying:
"I don't feel like it'd be clean money."
The Storage Wars star ultimately agreed, commenting:
"I wouldn't ask a damn thing. $7.5 million is a lot of money… but that's a lot of running, too."
Twitter also shared what they would do in the unusual scenario.
Other people were wondering why all that money was sitting in a storage unit.
At the end of the day, everyone walked away happy.
The money's original owner got most of it back and the buyer got quite the bonus on a relatively small investment.
Could you imagine a better scenario?
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