Man orders a sausage McMuffin but is delivered bag with $5,000 cash inside

A lucky man who went to McDonald’s for a sausage McMuffin ended up receiving a bag of $5,000 (£4,050) in cash instead.

Josiah Vargas ordered the meal at the drive-thru counter and faced a major dilemma about whether to give the cash back or not.

Speaking from inside his car, he said: ‘I went to McDonald’s and they handed me my sausage McMuffin… and this bag.

He then opens it up, showing several see-through packets filled with money.

‘Just a couple thousand dollars here,’ he goes on. ‘Like, what is this? Why would they do this?

‘What the f**k? Now I have to return this because I’m a good person, I guess.’

The camera cuts to Josiah sitting in his car outside a branch of the fast food outlet.

He asks: ‘Why would you guys do this to me? Do you know how bad I want this money? Why put me in this situation?’

He walked into the restaurant and headed to the counter, jokingly asking if the staff were ‘laundering money’.

A staff member said she couldn’t believe her eyes and sounded relieved, exclaiming: ‘Oh my God I want to give you a hug.’

When Josiah returned to his car, he explained: ‘They were just all hugging me and thanking me and crying, and I get free McDonald’s for a month, I guess.

‘When I was driving away, they called me back and gave me $200. Do good, people. Return $5,000, get $200 and free McDonald’s for a month.

‘Good trade value.’

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