This story is hilarious:1
A 16-year-old Rosemount student handed out $100 bills to fellow students Tuesday as if they were jelly beans.
When asked where he got the money — he had given away about $11,000 — he first said it was his allowance. Later, when pressed by a teacher, he admitted he found it in a ditch.
Of course they didn’t believe the boy,who was actually telling the truth:
As it turns out, the teen wasn’t lying.
The student, whose identity has not been disclosed, led another investigator to a highway ditch near Pilot Knob Road and 195th Street in Farmington, where he had found a Cub Foods bag filled with nearly $18,000 in cash.
Nearby was something more sinister: measurement scales and 4 pounds of marijuana.
The teen gave the money to friends and needy acquaintances, including his bus driver. “He said because she needed it. She has kids, and she needed it.”
The police took back all of the money, including the $1,200 given to the bus driver.
Something similar2 happened in Miami, near my old high school.
The school is next to a high I-95 onramp. One day, a money collection truck overturned on the onramp and money3 flowed from the highway throughout the neighborhood.4
This happened before I moved to Miami, but people were still talking about it years later.
1 Via Pioneer Press | TwinCities.com
2 Similar in a “found money” sense, but obviously, in Miami people help themselves.
3 Money, and food stamps apparently. I don’t know what kind of truck carries both… one of my classmates said, “Man, we were using those food stamps for months!”
4 Overtown, one of Miami’s poorest neighborhoods. The story was picked up by the NYT.
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