Posted on 07/07/2009 9:43:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A New York woman said a wallet stolen nearly 27 years ago in Central Park was found in inside a hollow tree. Ruth Bendik, 60, said she was greeting runners at the end of the New York marathon Oct. 24,1982, and "when I got out of the crush of people, I realized my purse was much lighter," CNN reported Tuesday.
Josh Galiley, tree-care supervisor for the Central Park Conservancy, said he was chopping down a 65-year-old hazardous black cherry tree in the park last week when he found the blue leather wallet in the hollow trunk.
"I started poking in the soft stuff and this wallet turned up. Having been that low in the tree ... the location indicated it had been there for quite some time," Galiley said.
He said finding a wallet inside of a tree was a first for him.
"When you're cutting a tree and it's hollow, you expect stuff inside, shreds of material, old marbles, really just knickknacks compared to this," he said.
Bendik praised those who found her wallet and tracked her down to return it.
"The lengths they went to find me, the extent that they went through and the fact that they were concerned about my feelings really impressed me," she said.
She said all that was missing from the wallet, which still contained her driver's license and credit cards, was $20 cash.
"Twenty dollars was a lot of money then," she said.
Yes, as a young elf Ernie Keebler did some things he refuses to talk about these days. He could never have become spokesman for the Keebler Company if some of the things he did then had caught up with him.
Sad. Ernie Keebler will NEVER be president now.
An ethics complaint against Sarah Palin has already been filed over this incident. [/s]
Once on a road trip thru the nat’l parks out west, I and some friends stayed at a motel in Wyoming (I think) which was just a classic beat-up 50’s deal, shaped like a horseshoe. In the middle was a single tall fir tree. The only other guests at the motel were staying in 2 rooms, at either end of the horseshoe. One set needed the car keys from the other set. So, the keys got tossed from one side of the horseshoe to the other, and ended up stuck in the tree. Those idiots then spent the entire night climbing the tree looking for the keys, standing in the bucket of a front loader, moving ladders all over the place. We were all very tired and wired from all the driving and they kept us up all night. All night long we were laughing at how stupid they were and cursing our luck because we were exhausted and needed the sleep. On balance, it just sucked, I don’t mind telling you.
Back in the day, $20 at the pump would have filled her car twice.
I worked at a Dairy Queen in 1982. The cost of a small vanilla cone: 35 cents.
Dang Lousy squirrel...or is it Dennis Kuccinich??? LOL
About $45.00 now.
Only if it only held 15 gallons.
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