According to the Topix Editor in Dorr, Michigan, an 11-year-old Boy Scout finds a wallet containing $800 in cash at the church where Troop 90 meets.

The Scout, J. R. Bouterse, immediately reports his find to an adult in the Scout Troop meeting room.

Turns out the adult is a cop who helps the Boy Scout find the owner of the wallet, and return it—forthwith.

The owner of the lost wallet, a 20-year-old woman, is overjoyed. So are the Michigan State Police who decide to throw a pizza party for J. R. as a reward for his spontaneous good deed.

Much to the joy of all the other Scouts in Troop 90, the cops decide to have the pizza party at the church where the Troop 90 meets.

The owner of the wallet comes to the party so she can meet J. R., the Scout who befriended her. "I can’t believe someone would find a wallet with that much money in it and not take some," the woman says.

"I know exactly how she feels," J. R. says to the cops. The Boy Scout says he lost a wallet of his own containing $45 not long ago, but the neither the wallet nor the money has been returned.

Did the woman offer J. R. a reward? No, she didn’t. Comments appearing in the Topix Editor about the incident contained criticism of the woman for failing to give the boy even a small reward for returning her $800.

A Boy Scout leader interrupted the negative comments: "Boy Scouts don’t act as they do to get rewards — this boy returned the wallet simply because it was the right thing to do!"