Mass. Residents Urged To Return Fluttering Cash
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MONTAGUE, Mass. — Cash fluttering in the breeze might have seemed like a gift from heaven, but anyone in this western Massachusetts town who grabbed some of it is being asked to please give it back. The money — a total of $1,100 — belonged to 83-year-old Mary Olive Corbiere, who was banking on it to buy Christmas presents and lost it after a freak accident. Ms. Corbiere had left a drugstore Tuesday and was putting her bags in her car when a wind gust pushed her shopping cart — still containing her purse and cane — into the back of a delivery truck. The cart became stuck in a rear wheel well before the truck pulled away and disappeared into traffic. Witnesses told police that when the purse finally burst open, strangers stopped and grabbed the fluttering currency, which Ms. Corbiere had withdrawn for holiday shopping and bills.
