(Dec. 16) -- Brian Christopher needed the money. Really.
The 49-year-old Navy veteran and father of three is homeless and jobless but didn't let his financial situation deter him from doing the right thing Monday when he found a wallet outside Boston City Hall, stuffed with $172 in cash.
He did admit to a brief moral struggle, however.
"I counted the money and said, 'Wow, I could probably get three nice presents with this,'" Christopher told the Boston Globe. "But maybe it was some student's Christmas gift money. I just kept thinking of the meaning of Christmas."
And so Christopher brought the wallet to police, who tracked it down to Cambridge bike messenger Meghan Schultz, 22.
"I had pretty much written it off," Schultz told the Boston Globe. "For me that's a pile of cash."
Christopher, whose wife and children live in Maryland, returned to his native Massachusetts this month in hopes of securing a job and living with his parents. However, his mother is caring for his disabled father, also a veteran, and couldn't help. He's currently residing at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in downtown Boston.
To read more, go to the Boston Globe.