Elderly woman loses her fortune, then gets it back

Some people are so distrustful of banks they are putting money in ... cracker boxes. Which gets us to the story of a good deed in Irvine. The Associated Press reports:

Debra Rogoff was more curious than ecstatic when her daughter found $10,000 in a cracker box. After all, who would leave money in such a place?

"We just thought, 'This is someone's money,' " she said. "We would never feel good about spending it."

Rather than go on a shopping spree, the Irvine woman went to police and was initially told that the money could be a drug drop. Police later heard from store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin that an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside.

The Lake Forest woman, whose identity was not released, had lost faith in her bank and decided the box would be a safer place for the $10,000.

-- Shelby Grad