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Father and daughter reel it in and find owner on Internet
A Pennsylvania man and his 13-year old daughter caught a rather unusual fish story when they were out fishing on Monday. They hooked a wallet in Corsons Inlet in Ocean City, which had been lost for 19 years.
Chuck Lindberg, 42, of Ocean City, lost his wallet 19 years ago when it fell from his personal watercraft somewhere in the water near Corsons Inlet.
Lindberg got a new driver's license, canceled his credit cards and assumed his University of Texas ID card was lost for all time.
His driver's license had disintegrated from 19 years of saltwater, but nearly everything else was remarkably intact.
Richard Santo, of Newtown Square, Pa., and his daughter Katie found the wallet with ID and credit cards inside. There were no reports of wet cash being found in it.
"It started dragging, pulling like it was pulling with the tide. I wasn't sure what I had," Santo told the Press of Atlantic City. "When I first pulled it up, my daughter was pulling it up with me. It was all black and encrusted with silt and junk."
Santo and Katie looked inside the wallet, and through the still-readable ID cards and driver registration, they found that Lindberg was from Ocean City.
Santo says his daughter searched the Internet and located an address just down the street from their house, according to a report on NJ.com. Santo has a summer home a few doors down from Chuck Lindberg.
Despite the tides, the wallet must have moved less than 200 yards since 1991, Lindberg said. And it was packed so tightly with cards and IDs, nothing apparently came out, he added.
In an Associated Press report on Philly.com, Lindberg said he is keeping some of the IDs as souvenirs of another time and a different hairstyle.
"I said, 'I'd offer you a reward, but honestly there's nothing of value in there,'" Lindberg told the Press of Atlantic City. "I told him, 'There's definitely some good karma coming back to you from that.'"
Lindberg might have bought them dinner as a reward because the wallet was their only catch of the day. The cash went further nineteen years ago anyway.
— BOB HOLT, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
