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Old 12-10-2008, 09:23 AM   #1
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Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Tue Dec 9, 9:14 pm ETMURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A Murfreesboro woman says she returned $97,000 she claims to have found in a Cracker Barrel restroom, but police said Tuesday they have no report of the find. Billie Watts, 75, told The Daily News Journal that she discovered the money inside a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on a stall door last Thursday.

But five days later, the money and its anonymous owner remain something of a mystery in the community, where police said that they have no report of the find.

While digging through the bag to figure out its owner, Watts says she found a bundle of neatly stacked $1,000 bills.

Watts said she and her husband took the money home, but later called the restaurant back and asked if there was a lost-and-found department. She was told yes, and left her number.

A woman called about 15 minutes later and verified she was the owner by identifying pictures left in the bag. Watts returned the bag to the owner, whom she described as an elderly woman, but said she does not have the woman's last name or phone number.

Watts said the woman told her that the money came from selling her home and her belongings and that she was going to start a new life in Florida with her son. Watts says the woman offered to pay her $1,000, but Watts refused it.

A manager of the Cracker Barrel restaurant, Bill Shupp, said no employees actually saw the money or the elderly owner.

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Old 12-10-2008, 09:39 AM   #2
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You know what's sad? It's sad that this made the NEWS.
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:41 AM   #3
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Honest people? Where? I dont think I've met many before.
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Old 12-10-2008, 07:48 PM   #4
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You know what's sad? It's sad that this made the NEWS.
I'd actually rather see more shit like this... The media sinks their teeth into anything shitty and blabs on about it incessently for weeks... I'm a negative motherfucker by nature, but even sometimes the news bums me out. I'd say this is 10000000000000x more newsworthy than what sort of parking tickets Britany Spears got...
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Old 12-10-2008, 10:29 PM   #5
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I'd actually rather see more shit like this... The media sinks their teeth into anything shitty and blabs on about it incessently for weeks... I'm a negative motherfucker by nature, but even sometimes the news bums me out. I'd say this is 10000000000000x more newsworthy than what sort of parking tickets Britany Spears got...
...normally I'd agree...if the story were true...

the article mentions numerous times that no one. at all. except the claimed "finder" and the Billie fellow, have any record/report/evidence of said event ever occuring. No finding reported. No money or elderly woman spotted. Sad that someone would make that up, but that's the way it seems...
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Old 12-10-2008, 10:33 PM   #6
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...normally I'd agree...if the story were true...

the article mentions numerous times that no one. at all. except the claimed "finder" and the Billie fellow, have any record/report/evidence of said event ever occuring. No finding reported. No money or elderly woman spotted. Sad that someone would make that up, but that's the way it seems...
My thinking exactly.

Ironic how quick everyone is to kiss this lady's ass for being so honest when it is obvious the story is a lie.
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:46 AM   #7
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Amazing!
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:50 AM   #8
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bundle of neatly stacked $1,000 bills ????
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:58 AM   #9
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When phil and I were servers at Red Lobster for awhile. One of the other servers found an envelope with $1400 left in it. They gave it to the manager and when the guy came back in frantic looking for his money and the manager told himt hat one of the servers found it and turned it in...he asked who it was...they brought him out and the guy handed over $300
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Old 12-10-2008, 09:59 AM   #10
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someones safe deposit box cash if it was $1000...nice to see someone do something for the good!
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