A Utah couple says their two-year-old son found an envelope containing over $1,000 and put it in the shredder. Ben and Jackee Belnap spent the entire year trying to save enough money to pay back Ben's parents for Univesity of Utah football season tickets.
When they went to pull out the envelope it was missing. The frantic parents searched their house looking for the cash. After digging through the trash and checking underneath the couch cushions, Jackee finally figured out what happened to the $1,060 they had saved up.
"I'm digging through the trash and she hollers and says, 'I found it,'" Ben told KTV-TV. "She's holding the shredder and she says, 'I think the money is in here.'"
The couple said that their son Leo likes to help them shred the bills, but they usually turn the machine off and unplug it when they are done. Jackee said that she must have left it on one time, allowing Leo to use it without their knowledge.
While Jackee said she was angry at first, in the end, the whole family will look back and laugh about what happened.
"We have a lot of Leo moments. Most of them are just funny, and we laugh about them for days and big jokes, but this was one of those moments that wasn't his greatest, but we love him."
The couple may be able to recoup the money, but it might take a while. Ben called the U.S. Department of Treasury and was told that if he sends the money to their office in Washington D.C. they could get almost all of the money back sometime in the next two years.