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Plumber’s bathroom find nothing to pooh-pooh: Bathroom cash stash leads to plumber’s smile
By O’Ryan Johnson
Thursday, January 11, 2007





Shawn Walker shows the hole in the floor where he found $2,750 inside a sock while he was renovating a bathroom in Medford Tuesday. (Staff photo by John Wilcox)


As a plumber for the past 24 years, Medford native Shawn Walker has reached his hand into a lot of places the rest of us wouldn’t touch.

So when he saw a filthy sock under the floor boards of a Medford bathroom Tuesday he didn’t bat an eyelash before grabbing it. But this time, the plumber’s mystery find was nothing nasty.
“I was amazed,” he said. “It was filled with cash.”
Inside the dirty white sock was a wad of dough that, even with some wear and tear, counted out to $2,750.
“I don’t know how it got there or who put it in there,” Walker said.
Walker did the right thing.
“I gave it to the woman of the house,” he said.
The owner, who asked that his name not be used, said his father put the money there years ago and forgot about it.
“I could tell it was his by the sock and by the way he wrapped the money,” he said. “It’s great. I think it was really honest of him. If he had taken it we wouldn’t have even known about it.”
The owner said his father, who is still alive, is from a generation that often stashed extra cash for a rainy day.
“It just goes to show there are honest people out there,” the homeowner said.

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