A good Samaritan saved the day for a San Diego golfer who lost his wallet, and now that man and his wife just want the chance to say thank you.
Escondido's Golf Mart prides itself on knowing its employees, but manager Craig Buckley, who has 24 years of service with the company, couldn't figure out which of his customers was responsible for the good deed.
Buckley showed NBC 7 his surveillance video from Sunday afternoon. The cameras picked up customer Eric Detamore making his final purchases before he lost his wallet.
Eric Detamore was shopping at the store on Sunday afternoon when he put his wallet in the front pocket of his Chicago Cubs sweatshirt.
He made his purchases and walked out to the store to drive to another store about 15 minutes away. That is when he realized his wallet was gone.
The footage proves Eric Detamore didn’t leave it on the checkout counter at Golf Mart or drop it inside the store.
“When I got in the car it probably fell out,” Detamore said. “It had to have fallen out when I got to the car.”
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Eric Detamore said he became “stressed to the bone" when he realized his wallet was missing, not because of what was inside the wallet, but because of the wallet itself -- it was a Chicago Cubs-themed wallet given to him by his kids as a gift.
Detamore called his wife Carol, and she immediately started making calls to cancel his at-risk accounts.
"He sounded composed, but he was stressed because he had been searching for at least twenty minutes for it," said Carol Detamore. "I was in the middle of cancelling his cards when the doorbell rang."
Standing at the door was a man she had never met before. The man handed her husband's wallet to her.
Carol Detamore said she was so excited by the kind act, she forgot to grab the man's name before he took off.
“How am I going to thank this person or at least let him know how important that was and what a great example he is setting for my children?” Carol Detamore said.
Detamore's wife said the Good Samaritan went 20 miles out of his way to make the in-person drop-off.
Eric Detamore said he is just grateful to have the special wallet back in his possession, due to the kind act of a stranger.
“It’s a special wallet. That Good Samaritan went above and beyond. It’s good to see there are still good people out there."
