An accident?

I mentioned a family that found US $10,000 in a box of crackers they got at the store in yesterday's post. What I didn't talk about, however, was the "accident" that put that money on the store's shelf.

It seems that a woman had put her life savings into an envelope and had put that envelope in a box of crackers for safe keeping. Apparently, however, she did not have enough money to subsist on once she had stored her money in this way (it's hard to write a check against "The Nabisco* Triscuit* Bank" and get people to believe you that they're good for it), so she returned the box of crackers to the store to get some liquidity in her investment.

Here's where the story takes an interesting turn. Apparently the store restocked the obviously-opened crackers instead of composting them. I'm not sure which I would be more frustrated about...finding US $10,000 only to have to return it to the rightful owner or learning that the "new" box of crackers I had purchased was in fact previously-owned. We asked representatives from the grocery store to comment on this "accident," but were told that they are sticking to their story. We'll have to let it slide this time, but at the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not concerned about your health, and so we ask you all to report previously-owned groceries to your local GPD office so that we can have a better picture of the scope of this sort of "accident."

* Nabisco and Triscuit are registered trademarks of Kraft Foods.