In 2020, in the midst of the chaos caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a gesture performed by a father and his 11-year-old son moved thousands of Internet users.
Briefly, Lorenzo Hietpas, who had just lost his job, was walking through a park with his 11-year-old son Vince when they found a wallet.
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However, instead of doing what many other people would do, the duo decided to take the right path and return the object.
The beginning of this story
According to reports released by WFRV-TV, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, everything happened in Voyageur Park, a green area that exists in the city.
Chase Dahlke, a young man of just 17 years old, told the station that he spent the day fishing with a friend in a lake in the region and, when he got home, he noticed that he had lost his wallet.
“I was fishing with my friend. After we were done fishing I noticed my wallet was gone. I got home, checked my drawers, there was nothing there,” he said.
However, what Chase didn't know was that Lorenzo and Vince Hietpas had found his wallet lying on the ground next to a tree.
When asked about it, young Vince Hietpas commented on that moment. “We were walking to our car and then we saw the wallet next to a tree,” he reported.
Shortly after finding Chase's belongings, Vince and his father were able to locate the 17-year-old's address, which was listed on his driver's license, which was tucked inside the wallet.
The attitude that moved people
Still according to reports that were conveyed by the Green Bay press, some people close to Lorenzo and Vince Hietpas did not want them to look for the owner of the wallet.
However, father and son remained firm in their decision to locate Chase's house and go there to deliver the documents.
This task was carried out by Vince, but when he arrived at the Dahlke family home, he found no one there.
Fortunately, there were security cameras at the entrance to the house that captured the boy's arrival. Upon seeing the images of Vince standing in front of the door via the app, Jason Dahlke, Chase's father, immediately went to help him.
To show gratitude to the boy, Jason took the money from his wallet (about $2) and gave it to Vince, who was deeply grateful.
However, the shock of Vince's attitude was such that Jason wanted to reward him in a larger way. “I was still kind of shocked that someone could pull off a nice gesture like that,” said Jason.
With the turmoil of the situation, Chase's father ended up not getting Vince's contact. So he asked his wife, Michelle, to look for the boy on social media.
So, Michelle took screenshots of the camera footage that Vince filmed and posted on her Facebook profile to try to find the boy.
“Who knows this boy? We want to reward you! So thankful for him and his dad. There is so much hate in this world and so much negativity. It's time to focus on the positive," she wrote in the post.
the happy ending
Soon after seeing Vince's images on Facebook, some of his family identified him and began to tell a little of the boy's life story.
According to these people's reports, Lorenzo, Vince's father, caught Covid-19 and had to be absent from his job at a factory.
When he got better, the man returned to work, but with great difficulty. That's because he had sequelae from the disease, which prevented him from breathing properly when he was using the necessary equipment.
For this reason, Lorenzo was fired and had to start taking odd jobs in the region to support his family.
Upon learning of this story, the Dahlke family decided to take action. They created a GoFundMe to raise money for the Hietpas family.
The WFRV-TV report states that more than US$ 11,000 in donations were raised, which were given to the Hietpas as a way of helping them to go through this difficult time with more tranquility.
In an emotional video, Lorenzo, Vince and the rest of the Hietpas are shown heading to the Dahlke home once more to thank them for their act of generosity.
This time, instead of a wallet, father and son brought a bouquet of flowers and a card, as a thank you for the efforts of Chase's family and his father, Jason.
This is, without a doubt, a story that makes us believe in a better world!
