Oct 252008

A man in Jackson, Missouri took a bag full of partially, mouse-eaten money to his bank to see if there was any way to get a reimbursement

From the Southeast Missourian.

Mice had devoured most of Andrew Jackson’s face from the majority of the $20 bills in the bag, Johns said.

The four women pieced together as many serial numbers as they could and came up with $1,000 — the amount the customer believed he’d had in the bag.

The federal mint requested all of the contents of the bag the money had been in, so everything — the torn money, feces and feathers — were shipped to the mint, where it can be examined, Johns said.

The mint will then issue the customer a check for the exact amount the torn money is worth.

Good to know that the mint has your back in cases like this.

Mice are peculiar. I wonder why they didn’t eat the entire bills. Must be that Andrew Jackson’s face is especially tasty.

I had a friend who kept a quarter ounce of weed hidden away in a drawer for hard times. Quite a while went by and I guess the whole town was dry so, one day he grabbed the dope out of the drawer. Mice had gotten in to the bag and ate all the seeds. They left the dope but ate all the seeds, And, yes he did smoke it anyway. He said; “It was like the mice cleaned the dope for me”.

Go figure.