Woman claims to find $97,000 in Cracker Barrel

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — 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.






I'll give 3 smilies to the person who can point out why this is a hoax.

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Thanks, I love Audrey, I think she was the most beautiful woman ever to walk the Earth.

But no one can see the big flaw in this woman's story?

There is to this date no such thing as a 1000 dollar bill.

Hmm...you may be right, at least nowadays. Back in the past, there were. There was even a 100,000 bill shortly after WWI, but it was only used for interbank transfers.

However, if it'd been 100s, it would have been 10 times as heavy.

Whenever I go to Cracker Barrel I usually end up with real bad diarrhea. I call it Crap O Barrel.

This lady must be senile if she believes she found 10 $1,000 dollar bills in a bathroom stall of a Cracker Barrel

Here's a link about 1,000 bills:

http://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat-/50 ... tory.82847

I just thought it was amusing that this story was reprinted in news feeds across the country, including CNN, when it was so obvious that it was a hoax.

How could they be that stupid????