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

[firedupdem]

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."

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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.

Luckily for her, the box of Annie's Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers were bought by the Rogoffs, who discovered the crisp $100 bills in an unmarked white envelope on Oct. 10.

The Rogoffs never heard from the woman and didn't receive a reward, but Rogoff did return to Whole Foods a couple weeks later.

"I asked them if I could have another box of crackers," she said with a laugh. The store obliged.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28400102/?GT1=43001

[Muttocracy]

1. I heard a shorter version on the radio earlier - thanks for posting this - no reward or thanks?! nt

[firedupdem]

3. Thats a trip huh? I know we don't do things for the reward...but a

thank you would have been in order...at least.

[TomInTib]

2. And the woman didn't offer a reward?

Keep the money, next time.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. She's probably still shaking

Old people don't always manage to think beyond themselves.

They will always return the money, people like that.

Don't be such a grinch.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. That old lady

needs to play the lottery.

She's lucky in so many ways - the box wasn't composted, the people who found it returned it - that she really ought to spend some of the money on lottery tickets.

She's bound to win.

That's one hell of a story, isn't it?

[LisaL]

5. I can understand storing the money in the box.

But why take the box to the store to return it?
People seem to lose their money (and large sums to) in the weirdest places lately.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. She forgot

Who knows how old she is, or what shape she's in?

If she took the cash out of the bank because she no longer trusted the bank, that suggests she's maybe not all that stable.

Or else she's a regular here at DU..........

:toast:

[Suich]

6. Whole Foods re-stocked an open box of crackers???

Ew-w-w-w-w-w.

x(

[firedupdem]

8. hmmmmmmm! Yuck ! n/t

[NJmaverick]

11. That's what you pay the little extra for

[TomInTib]

15. Yeah, it's not easy to find.....

a box of Aged Annie's Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers.

[Muttocracy]

12. Lot of things that don't add up... maybe she reglued it?

Why on earth would she choose a box of crackers and then return that very same brand to the store? Perhaps she's not mentally all there.

But yeah, ewww.

[NJmaverick]

10. What I found disturbing

was that someone returned an opened box of crackers and it ended up back on the shelf.

[LisaL]

13. She probably glued it back on.

Otherwise, not only she returned the open box, it was put back on the shelf, and another person bought an open box.
My bet the box was made to look as if it was not open. Which is scary, because someone could potentially tamper with the food, then bring it back to the store, and the food could end up being back on the shelf.

[NJmaverick]

14. that was what I was thinking

:scared:

[Sedona]

16. Mystery solved at link

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.

[marybourg]

17. Hmmm. I wonder how often a "mix-up" like that happens?

If the box had been opened, it should have looked like it was opened.

[CreekDog]

18. they should sue for a million

it should be worth more than a mouse

...or a finger. :think:

[Matariki]

19. This story makes NO sense.

Someone was storing their money in a cracker box AT A STORE????

Huh???