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Woman returns $97K found in Cracker Barrel restroom
Dec 10, 2008 | 1:22 PM
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What a nice story

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Billie Watts says she was tempted but couldn’t bring herself to keep $97,000 she said she found in a Cracker Barrel restroom.

The 75-year-old Murfreesboro woman 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 say 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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DogJ read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 1:39 PM

Ha, ha, ha, ha; neatly stacked $1,000 bills.
Ha, ha, ha; no such thing.

I hope she didn't sign over the title to her house for those "neatly stacked $1,000 bills"!!!
vision read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 2:49 PM

DogJ, The United States government also printed $1,000 dollar bills which circulated in the American general public. This specific $1,000 dollar bill was printed in 1928 and has the portrait of the twenty-fourth president Grover Cleveland printed on. The $1,000 dollar bills are also collectors' items and can be found for sale online. The 1,000 dollar bill and all bills over $100 were printed until 1946 before they were discontinued. They then were then allowed to circulate in the general public until 1969 were they were recalled. The only remaining $1,000 dollar bills are the ones that were not turned in on the recall. There are very few bills left and are all worth thousands of dollars.

http://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat-/500-to-1000-to-100
00-and-Beyond-The-Biggest-Dollar-Bills-in-United-States
-History.82847


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There are very few bills left and are all worth thousands of dollars.

It was worth more than $97,000.00, apparently this woman had a mattress stash. The title on the house? Depending on the house, DogJ.
vision read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 2:55 PM

The $500 bill featured a portrait of William McKinley
The $1,000 bill featured a portrait of Grover Cleveland
The $5,000 bill featured a portrait of James Madison
The $10,000 bill featured a portrait of Salmon P. Chase
The $100,000 bill featured a portrait of Woodrow Wilson
DogJ read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 3:09 PM

Okay, okay, okay.
No such thing = no legal tender = not in circulation.

Technically, I was wrong:-(
I'm such a dufuss!
vision read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 9:30 PM

no longer in circulation = Collector items = legal tender
you silly.............
sweethart read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 10:39 PM

The owner of the money should thank her lucky stars that Ruth Bates did not find the money.
vision read my blog
Dec 10, 2008 | 10:44 PM

LOL sweethart that was a good one.

Just for measure:
ONE million dollars would equal a 4 inch high stack of 1000, $1000 bills. How high of a stack of $1000 bills would ONE trillion dollars be? Answer: A one trillion dollar stack composed of $1000 bills would be 63.13 MILES HIGH!
Searchingtoo read my blog view my photos
Dec 11, 2008 | 8:05 AM

JDOG.. maybe you should avoid the currency questions.. :)
jpbikerfreak read my blog view my photos
Dec 11, 2008 | 9:56 AM

The money was actually part of the $700 billion bailout.

There was an old lady benefit clause buried in the fine print.
DogJ read my blog
Dec 11, 2008 | 10:47 AM

"no longer in circulation = Collector items = legal tender" - vision

Okay, now you're technically wrong.
The recipient may be stupid, but that does not make it "Legal Tender."
By law, legal tender must be allowed in circulation.
Just try and deposit a $1,000 bill or a one ounce gold piece at your bank, then you will find out what legal tender is:-)
jpbikerfreak read my blog view my photos
Dec 11, 2008 | 11:12 AM

Legal tender = take this monopoly money at gunpoint and don't use anything else, at least without paying taxes on it.
DogJ read my blog
Dec 11, 2008 | 3:09 PM

to vision & jp,

Your points are so noted... there are lots of things MORE valuable than a Federal Reserve Note, or Legal Tender.
vision read my blog
Dec 11, 2008 | 7:59 PM

DogJ, legal tender is the benefactor (payment) by which collector items render, that is what I meant.

Literal term, yes "legal tender" is actually in circulation. Looking at it from a accounting aspect, Assets include items exchangeable for "legal tender" so in reality this collector money turns into "cash on hand" or "legal tender". That money is worth more than the money your carrying in your wallet.
Beings they were included in a recall by the Federal Reserve then yes the banks would have to accept it.

$1,000 Bills Surprise Bank
WBBM.COM ^ | 07/10/08

Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:48:36 AM by Abathar

MUNSTER, Ind. (WBBM) - It's not often that a bank returns a deposit to a customer because the deposit is worth more than the customer realized.

But that's what happened this week at the American Savings Bank in Munster, Indiana.

An unidentified woman brought in two, $1,000 bills to make a deposit.

A teller alerted bank officials because she had never seen a $1,000 bill before.

After doing some research, officials discovered the rare bills issued in 1934 were probably worth as much as $4,500 each.

They contacted the depositor and gave the bills back.

The woman says she got the bills from a relative many years ago, and wasn't sure what exactly prompted her to try to deposit them this week.

So see BINGO! the LOTTERY!
vision read my blog
Dec 11, 2008 | 8:10 PM

It is just a matter of perception you think in a literal sense, I think worth.
vision read my blog
Dec 11, 2008 | 8:20 PM

If you read the history on why the $1,000.00 bill was issued, then when a person walks in with a stack of them, the DEA or Fed agents would definately want to know how you aquired them. They were used to track drug dealers, if you walk in with one or two probably not a problem. Now that stack of 97, would raise concerns.
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