Calif. family finds $10,000 in box of crackers

[Are_grits_groceries]

Money turned into police was Lake Forest woman's life savings

IRVINE, Calif. - The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it — an envelope stuffed with $10,000.

Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter's find. After all, who would leave money in such a place?

"We just thought, 'This is someone's money,'" she said. "We would never feel good about spending it."

Rather than go on a shopping spree, the family called police and was initially told the money could be part of a drug drop.

Police later heard from store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin that an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside. In a mix-up the store restocked the box rather than composting it.

The Lake Forest woman, whose identity was not released, had lost faith in her bank and decided the box would be a safer place for the money.

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You know the economy is tanking when someone uses the First Bank of Bunnies Snacks.

[itsrobert]

1. The store puts an open returned box back on the shelf for sale?

I think I will avoid that store. Walmart pulls the same crap.

[Deja Q]

7. Thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to go to Target for my condoms from now on...

[dysfunctional press]

2. "In a mix-up the store restocked the box rather than composting it"

yeah...right...:eyes:

i got bitched at the other day by the woman at the mcdonald's drive-thru- they had given me the wrong breakfast sandwich, which i didn't discover until i had driven away. i returned to the drive-up window, and gave them back the wrong sandwich- which i had purposely pushed my thumb through so that they couldn't reserve it, as that's entirely against the law. the drive up lady was pissed because now they couldn't serve that sandwich. oh well.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. I eat those things every day and I never got any money in my box

That's it. I'm writing a letter to Annie's.

If I found $10k in a box of crackers, I'd assume it's drug money and remodel my kitchen with it.

[louis-t]

4. Haaaa!

:rofl:

[CTyankee]

5. Doesn't anybody find this story sad? That poor lady...

Ihope she has somebody look in on her now and again. Where is her family?

This just pains me. I think of my mother and my experience convincing her to live in assisted living after she blew up her microwave and shattered her coffee carafe. Getting good care was so wonderful for her.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Sounds like it had a happy ending--life savings returned to the elderly woman,

because the finders didn't treat it like a windfall. Hard to say what I would do. I would be tempted, of course. But it is just that sort of possibility--that some innocent party might be seriously harmed by the loss of the money, or even a not-so-innocent party, who might be harmed or killed because of the money's disappearance--that would make me pause, and perhaps do what these finders did. I think it would drive me nuts not knowing if someone had been harmed. It would also bother me if it really was a windfall--somehow meant by the gods to help me out--and the money went to some other party who hadn't earned it (the store? the police?). Hard decision.

Of course, this is MSNBC, so who knows what the real story is? I wouldn't trust them to find out, if the story has other twists or layers (grandma growing pot in her basement?). They are a very low-minded, corpo/fascist propaganda 'news' monopoly, and use template stories, in my opinion. Pre-written garbage--just fill in the blanks. "Feel good" stories. "Bush good, Arabs bad" stories. "Celebrity" stories to make you feel like a worthless peon. Etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a psyops program aimed at hypnotizing/manipulating their viewers, with the templates all laid out, for months to come, even years and decades.

As the late John Lennon once sang, "Nothing is real/ and nothing to get hung about."