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Pittsburgh couple's dog eats $4,000 cash
UPI ^ | JAN. 4, 2024 / 1:58 PM | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 01/05/2024 11:33:55 AM PST by Red Badger

VIDEO AT LINK..................

Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A Pittsburgh couple whose dog ate an envelope filled with $4,000 cash said they were able to recover $3,550 -- but it was dirty work.

Clayton Law said he and his wife, Carrie, were having a fence installed at their home in the Point Breeze neighborhood, and the workers requested to be paid in cash, so he left an envelope filled with $4,000 in $100 and $50 bills on the kitchen counter.

Law said he returned to the kitchen about 30 minutes later to find Cecil, the couple's 7-year-old goldendoodle, making a meal out of the cash.

"I walked back into the room and then all this cash was on the ground. He's just like this, standing there, and I'm just like oh my gosh, he ate some of this money and was in shock. I yelled to Carrie, 'He ate the money, he ate $4,000,'" Law told KDKA-TV.

The couple set about trying to reassemble the shredded bills, and came up with $1,500 worth of bills with serial numbers that were intact enough to have them replaced by their bank.

A couple more $100 bills were retrieved later in the evening when Cecil vomited, but the rest of the money involved a lot of waiting -- and a whole lot of very dirty work.

The couple sifted through Cecil's droppings for the next two days and used a utility sink to wash the shreds of paper so they could be taped back together.

"I never thought I'd be able to say I've laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything," Carrie Law told The Washington Post.

In the end, the couple were able to salvage $3,550.

The couple said they are going to mail the rest of the bill remnants to the U.S. Treasury Department in the hopes of recovering more of the money, but if not, they will at least have a fun story to tell their son one day.

"We've kept at least one of the torn-up bills so we can do a piece of artwork and frame it to commemorate the entire situation," Carrie Law said. "Not that we'd ever forget."

The Laws said Cecil, who is normally very well-behaved and has never so much as stolen food from the counter before, is out of the doghouse.

"We couldn't be mad at him -- he's a very lovable dog," Carrie Law said. "People often tell us there's a human trapped inside our dog."


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1 posted on 01/05/2024 11:33:55 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption

There was a great documentary some years ago about this.


2 posted on 01/05/2024 11:40:10 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Turns out he couldn’t pass the rest of it. It was counterfeit.


3 posted on 01/05/2024 11:41:01 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Jamestown1630

As long as you have the serial numbers................


4 posted on 01/05/2024 11:41:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think they have ways of determining that it’s legitimate even if it lacks numbers. I remember in the video they were examining currency that had been in fires, too.


5 posted on 01/05/2024 11:43:06 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

“I never thought I’d be able to say I’ve laundered money, but there is apparently a first time for everything,”
Carrie Law told The Washington Post.

LOL


6 posted on 01/05/2024 11:44:31 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Red Badger

Dang dog is worse than Joe Xidenskyyyyyyy.


7 posted on 01/05/2024 11:46:56 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America!Biden has turned what was one of the greatest documentaries into a one season retard sitcom.)
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To: Gen.Blather
Turns out he couldn’t pass the rest of it. It was counterfeit.

Maybe this is a clever way of laundering $4k in counterfeit money- who's gonna examine the remnants all that closely when they're covered in dog sh*t? /s
8 posted on 01/05/2024 11:47:52 AM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: Red Badger

Cute story until he said his dog is a little human.

If my dog ate $5,000, I’d be considering surgery on my workbench. The dog wouldn’t survive.


9 posted on 01/05/2024 11:48:04 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Cecil, a dog, went viral after eating $4,000 in cash. Photograph: Courtesy Carrie Law

10 posted on 01/05/2024 11:49:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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11 posted on 01/05/2024 11:50:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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12 posted on 01/05/2024 11:51:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Soon to be a crapload of cash....


13 posted on 01/05/2024 11:51:20 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Gen.Blather

I think the Treasury Department is to blame.

They are probably using plant based inks that smell like dog food...................You know, for ‘Climate Change’.................


14 posted on 01/05/2024 11:53:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

File that under “gross receipts.”


15 posted on 01/05/2024 11:53:16 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

Ha!
My dog a roll of nickels. Ended up costing a few hundred at the vet.


16 posted on 01/05/2024 11:54:17 AM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: Red Badger

Hahahaha!


17 posted on 01/05/2024 11:54:42 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: gundog

Definitely have a cash flow problem........


18 posted on 01/05/2024 11:54:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Smash and grab robbery—penalty—one year at the pound.

Lol.


19 posted on 01/05/2024 11:57:39 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Red Badger

Note to self: don’t put the cash in last night’s Wendy’s bag...


20 posted on 01/05/2024 11:57:59 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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