Ooh! Imagine this: heading along to a secondhand bookshop, and finding that the book you'd picked up turned out to be stuffed with money. More than $20,000, in the case of the enigmatic "Carlos", who says he "closed the book real quick and ran for my car" on discovering what it contained.
Carlos sounds like a nice man. He's trying to find the book's real owner; if they haven't come forward within a couple of months, he'll give some of the money to charity and keep the rest. Good for him. He's certainly done better than the librarian who, last month, discovered an antique gun inside a donated book. Police described it as a "gold, wooden handled, 31-caliber, single shot, black powder gun", reported the Associated Press, and they're holding it as evidence. "Somebody just opened it up and said, 'Oh my'," assistant library director Phyllis Nelson told her local paper.
Although I once found a tenner inside the pocket of a jacket I bought from a charity shop – I gave it back – I've never unearthed anything at all intriguing, inscriptions aside, inside a secondhand book. I'm feeling a little jealous. And plotting a charity shop trip this afternoon. How about you – any money, or guns, to report? This is your safe place; you can tell us everything …
