Ben and Jackee Belnap are U of U football fans. They’d been
saving their cash for season tickets: $1060 in seven hundred-dollar bills and a short stack of twenties in an envelope. But last weekend the envelope went missing.
They’d searched the whole house; it was just gone. Ben was outside rifling
through the dumpster when Jackee called out that she’d found the money. In the
shredder bin. Their two-year-old son Leo had fed the bills through the paper shredder.
As it happens, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing has an office that deals
with mangled money. They told the Belnaps to put the shredded bills in Ziploc
bags and mail them off. They’ll get their cash returned in a year or two. Tragedy
plus time can equal comedy. I’m pretty sure if it had been MY toddler who did
this, I wouldn’t be laughing for a long, long time.
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