Gilroy
– A family of tourists from Israel ran into some good luck the
other day.
They were shopping in Gilroy Wednesday night when they lost a
backpack that contained their four passports, plane tickets and
jewelry.
Gilroy – A family of tourists from Israel ran into some good luck the other day.
They were shopping in Gilroy Wednesday night when they lost a backpack that contained their four passports, plane tickets and jewelry.
That’s the bad luck.
The next morning, they went to the Gilroy Police Department to report the loss. To their surprise, the backpack had beaten them there.
A Target employee had handed it in, and nothing was missing.
That’s the good luck.
“The honest man is the hero,” Yossi Attia said as he walked from the police station. “We really want to thank the one who gave these things in.”
Meir Attia, who owns the dark blue backpack, said he lost it in Target while shopping shortly before 9:30pm.
A Target manager on Thursday was unable to name the employee who found it. The Attias admitted they were amazingly lucky.
Meir Attia said he wasn’t even worried about the jewelry anymore by the time he got to the police station.
He said even the passports could have been replaced – though not without difficulty – at the Israeli embassy in San Francisco, where the family was staying.
“The (airplane) tickets was most important,” he said.
Now, with less than 12 hours from the backpack’s loss to its return, the Attias can relax and attend to the rest of their 18-day vacation.
Their next stop is Las Vegas, then Miami.
