SNIPPETS

DECEMBER 14,  2009

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- An Illinois man who found what appeared to be a $1 million bill said he waited more than four months for the government to tell him it was a fake.  Rodney Dukes, an unemployed 51-year-old who lives in East St. Louis, found the crisp bill in a phone booth and researched it by taking it to a bank, a public library and finally sending it to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday.

You mean the bank couldn't tell him that we don't print million-dollar bills? 

DECEMBER 13,  2009

From the Boston Globe:  A grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman on a second-degree-murder charge for allegedly killing her 100-year-old roommate in a dispute over the room they shared at a nursing home in Dartmouth.  Laura Lundquist, who prosecutors believe is the oldest person ever charged with murder in Massachusetts, has been charged with strangling Elizabeth Barrow in the Brandon Woods Nursing Home on Sept. 24.

Remember this the next time someone tells you that older people can't be sent on combat operations.