“He looked very familiar,” Luke said. “I watch the History Channel a ton.”
Sure enough, it was R. Lee Ermey, star of the network's “Mail Call,” with a line of movie credits that stretches back to the 1970s.
On closer examination, it turned out to be a bank deposit bag. Ermey stopped the car and picked it up.
“We look in there and - Lord have mercy,” he said.
The bag contained a pile of dough: cash and checks that looked like they were meant for deposit in an American Indian fund of some sort.
“Just on one deposit slip alone was, like, $3,700, and another one for $2,800,” Glenn said. “There was easily $8,000 in cash, and the rest in checks.”
Ermey said his first thought was: “Some poor guy, right now, is probably getting fired, probably having the worst day of his life.
“So what we did was we went right down to the Wells Fargo bank and deposited it for him.”
“He said, �You need to call these people so they can stop having a heart attack,' ” Glenn said.
Luke, Wells Fargo's business expert, said he didn't know how much the deposit bag held, or even who at the bank processed the deposit.
But he did appreciate meeting The Gunny.
“We weren't sure if it wasn't �Candid Camera,' ” he said.
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Irony wrote on Apr 8, 2009 7:31 AM:
" I started cracking up when I read this piece and saw it was right under an article about $248 million going to the tribes. Reckon that bag will fall off the roof? "
The Bringer wrote on Apr 8, 2009 9:16 AM:
" This would be the HONOR portion of the Marine Corps creedo. Semper Fi Gunny !!! "
SBM wrote on Apr 8, 2009 11:03 AM:
" I think that that was an Awesome of human dignity and the most responsible thing to do!! Thank-God for people like him! "
Fred Wickham III wrote on Apr 8, 2009 7:15 AM: