Honesty really does pay off. 
 
 An American teenager has been rewarded for returning Chris Hemsworth's wallet, which the Australian actor lost while he was dining with his family in a "rough" area of Los Angeles. 
 
 "I left my wallet on the table, and thought I'm never going to get it back, I'm never going to see it again," Hemsworth said on the The Ellen Show on Monday. 
 
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 That forgotten wallet was a surprise discovery for 17-year-old Tristin Budzyn-Baker, who was shocked to find who it actually belonged to. "I looked up at my mom, and was like 'mom, do you know who this is?'" Budzyn-Baker said. "We found Thor's wallet." 
 
 Budzyn-Baker then wrote a letter to Hemsworth's management saying that he found the Australian actor's wallet, while sneaking in a request for tickets The Ellen Show for his mom, which Hemsworth was due to appear on shortly. 
 
 Budzyn-Baker got tickets to The Ellen Show as a reward for his honesty and was seated in the audience with his mom as Hemsworth retold the story. The teenager later joined Hemsworth on stage to receive even more of a bonus for his good deed. 
 
 "I expected [the wallet] was going to be empty, and all the cash was in there, so I want to give you the cash — there's a little extra in there," Hemsworth said, handing over a wad of cash to a thrilled Budzyn-Baker. 
 
 It didn't stop there, Hemsworth also wrote a special letter of recommendation for Budzyn-Baker, a boy scout, for his bid to earn the top scouting rank Eagle Scout. Then host Ellen DeGeneres decided to reward the grateful teenager by giving Budzyn-Baker a further US$10,000 (A$12,833). 
 
 "You're an amazing young man, and thank you for being such a honest guy," DeGeneres said. Not a bad prize pool for stumbling across a random wallet. 
 
 It's proof that honesty is the best policy. 
 
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 Even Thor needs a hero sometimes. 
 
 When Australian actor Chris Hemsworth left his wallet in a Los Angeles restaurant, 17-year-old Tristin Budzyn-Baker came to his rescue. 
 
 "I looked up at my mom and was like, 'ma, do you know who this is?'" he recounted Monday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (H/T Mashable). "We found Thor's wallet." 
 
 Instead of pocketing it, Budzyn-Baker tracked down Hemsworth and returned the wallet full of cash. 
 
 "I expected it was going to be empty, and all the cash was in there" Hemsworth said on Ellen, sitting beside Budzyn-Baker. 
 
 In return, the teen scored his family some tickets, a stack of cash from Hemsworth and a $10,000 reward from the publishing service, Shutterfly. Budzyn-Baker, a boy scout, also got a letter of recommendation from Hemsworth for the Eagle Scout award. 
 
 "Thank you for being such an honest guy," DeGeneres said. 
 
 Thor's brother, Loki, could not be reached for comment. 
 
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 He got a “brutally honest” letter in the mail from the guy who found it, saying he blew all the cash on marijuana and kept the billfold for good measure. 
 
 Reilly Flaherty, 28, who misplaced the wallet on Feb. 5 at a show by the band Wilco, was stunned when he got the plain white envelope two weeks later containing the letter, his driver’s license and credit cards. 
 
 “I found your wallet and your drivers license had your address so here’s your credit cards and other important stuff,” the hand-scrawled letter read. 
 
 “I kept the cash because I needed weed, the metrocard because well the fare’s $2.75 now, and the wallet cause it’s kinda cool. Enjoy the rest of your day.” 
 
 The note — which was signed “Toodles Anonymous” — first made Flaherty burst out laughing. But he grew angry over being ripped off. 
 
 “I quickly went from being hysterical to like, this guy is selfish,” said Flaherty. 
 
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 He said in another lifetime, the two might have been pals. 
 
 “I would say, ‘Man, we would’ve gotten along — we’re both into Wilco — but you turned out to be super selfish,’ ” he said. “It speaks to the New York mentality: I’m going to be nice but there’s going to be an asterisk.” 
 
 Flaherty, who lives on the Lower East Side, said he realized he had lost his wallet in an Uber car when he got into Manhattan on the way back from King’s Theater in Brooklyn. 
 
 The Manhattan salesman said he trekked 45 mintues back to Brooklyn to look for it, but came up empty-handed. He had written the wallet off until he got the strange letter. 
 
 “I was perplexed by this plain white envelope. Is this anthrax?” he said. “I open it up and sure enough, it’s just the credit card and pretty much everything that’s of no value to me.” 
 
 By then, he had already canceled his cards and replaced his license, he explained. 
 
 In addition to the MetroCard and cash, Flaherty was robbed of a $10 Barnes & Noble gift certificate and Mr. Shiny’s shoeshine loyalty card, “which was a real drag because I almost had a free shine,” he lamented. 
 
 Flaherty declined to say how much cash was taken, insisting, “It’s not really about the money.” 
 
 “Whether it was a dollar or a thousand, [this person] is a pot-smoking, modern-day version of Robin Hood,” he quipped. 
 
 He also worried the finder had his personal information. 
 
 “He probably knows my blood type,” Flaherty added. 
 
 Flaherty admitted he wasn’t completely angry at the wallet bandit, though. 
 
 “You gotta respect the honesty,” he said.
– A 17-year-old kid who returned Thor's missing wallet is an even bigger Boy Scout than Captain America—literally. Mashable reports actor Chris Hemsworth was eating with his family in a "rough" area of Los Angeles when he forgot his wallet. "I left my wallet on the table and thought, 'I'm never going to get it back, I'm never going to see it again,'" Hemsworth said on Monday's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. But he didn't count on Tristin Budzyn-Baker, who found the wallet. "I looked up at my mom and was like, 'Ma, do you know who this is?' We found Thor's wallet,'" Budzyn-Baker told Ellen. Budzyn-Baker wrote a letter to Hemsworth's management, asking only for tickets for his mom to see Hemsworth on Ellen's show. He got that and more, USA Today reports. "I expected it was going to be empty, and all the cash was in there, so I want to give you the cash—there's a little extra in there," Hemsworth told Budzyn-Baker during Monday's show, handing the teen a wad of cash. It didn't stop there. Budzyn-Baker got $10,000 from Ellen for being "such an honest guy," and Hemsworth wrote the Boy Scout a letter of recommendation for the Eagle Scout award. It seems it pays to be a hero's hero.