The Cops for Cancer riders were zooming down a country road in Chilliwack as part the Tour de Valley team when they spotted $100 bills that seemed to 鈥渏ust fall from the sky.鈥�
At first some thought they were being 鈥減ranked,鈥� as their tires rolled right over the $100 bills, said Sgt. Krista Vrolyk of the Chilliwack RCMP, one of the team鈥檚 participants.
They couldn鈥檛 believe it when they spotted the first bill. Then another, and yet another.
鈥淚t was unreal,鈥� Vrolyk remembered. 鈥淪o much money. It seemed to just fall from the sky!鈥�
It happened on Day Three of their Cops for Cancer Tour de Valley, and the team stopped to pick up the loose cash in order to hand it over to police for safekeeping.
Some joked it might be 鈥渄rug money,鈥� blowing in the wind, the RCMP spokesperson said, but it turned out a Chilliwack man had just lost an envelope full of cash that he withdrew to purchase a flock of 鈥榖lackbelly鈥� sheep.
The team had just wrapped up their fundraising ride in Chilliwack and were heading to Abbotsford, raising money for the the Canadian Cancer Society and pediatric cancer research. The members pulled over and ended up recovering 23 of the $100 bills and one $50 bill, for a total of $2,350 of the man鈥檚 missing $2,700 for his sheep.
The Cops for Cancer team contacted Chilliwack RCMP to let them know that they had found the cash and would be turning it in.
鈥淐ould it be any more Chilliwack?鈥� Vrolyk said about the bizarre turn of events.
The young man and his father had been at a nearby farm picking up a trailer, which they hooked up to their truck. The would-be sheep farmer had placed the envelope full of cash on the 鈥渢ongue鈥� part of the trailer, and then drove off.
鈥淭hey were halfway to Abbotsford when they realized what had happened and immediately turned around, hoping that by some act of faith the money would still be there.鈥�
They returned to the scene, and spotted one measly $50 bill.
They then took to social media and called it into the RCMP on the off chance that a Good Samaritan had found the money.
The call came within the hour.
鈥漃eople often say that Chilliwack is a small town in a big city. It turned out that one of the riders knew the young man鈥檚 family and he was able to meet up with the team the following day to share his story and personally thank them.鈥�
鈥淎lthough feeling 鈥榓 little sheepish鈥� about his 鈥榙umb move,鈥� he was also extremely grateful to the team and showed his gratitude with a framed $100 bill donation to the Canadian Cancer Society鈥檚 Cops for Cancer,鈥� Vrolyk concluded.
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