Last week, four Ohio University students were approached by an apparently mentally unstable man offering wads of hundred-dollar bills. They received a total of $2,200 from the peculiar, mumbling fellow before he stumbled off into the night.

In an act that would seem inconceivable to outsiders, the four students turned over the money to the Athens Police Department.

When asked why they did so, the students said their conscience wouldn't have it and, besides, the money had probably been stolen.

Picturing myself once again as an OU student walking along Court Street, back in the day when I was desperate for money to buy a pack of Ramen noodles or a beef Meximelt from Taco Bell, I'm not so sure I would have been so gallant. No, I'm fairly certain I would have pocketed the cash, thankful for all the generous, yet mentally challenged people loitering our streets.

Just consider the possibilities. With $2,200, you could:

1. Buy 183 large, 1-topping pizzas and 915 wings from Hungry Howies Pizza (with coupon)

2. Eat a Burrito Buggy burrito every day for a year and a half.

3. Chug 4,398 50-cent drafts at Pawpurrs (including $1 for the plastic cup)

4. Build an extra bedroom out of 8,800 bricks of Ramen noodles.

5. Fill your Ramen noodle bedroom with nearly 6,000 cans of Milwaukee's Best

6. Pay 4% of your four-year stint at Ohio University, including room and tuition fees.

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