Greenwood Village Council Member Jerry Presley, who describes himself as being “in search of serious fun,” dabbled in his free time in a little “Candid Camera” experiment to answer “the $20 question.”

In five different public places last weekend, he dropped $20 bills attached to his business cards — each with scrawled messages to a fictitious nephew or niece that the money was for them to buy a nice birthday toy.

He said he just wanted to know how many people would return the money.

He also shot video of the five individuals who picked up the bills at public places — most were light rail stations. Three people called and asked how to get the money returned to him or his nephew or niece.

“This was a one-time deal,” Presley said. “I just wondered if people would do the right thing.”

He was particularly impressed with Rick Martinez, 52, of Englewood, who picked up a packet at the Littleton Light Rail Station.

He soon left a message on Presley’s phone that said: “I’ve been without employment for about a year, and I thought, ‘Whoa, I hit the jackpot.’ “

But then, he said, he saw the money had been meant for a kid’s birthday gift, and so he called to return it right away.

The two people who kept his money might have really needed it, Presley said. And that’s fine.

But he wishes something good would happen for Martinez. “That guy deserves a job.”