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| Felhaber turtle, Segundo Barrio, El Paso, Texas. October 2016. |
October 2016
Well, I am laughing as I write this. Because you just never know what incredible story lives behind a picture, a discarded item on the street, a tiny altar, a ribbon tied onto the desiccated branch of a dead tree, a half-clothed Barbie doll stuck through a chain link fence.
So it was with the militant turtle-dinosaur(ish) on the wall above.
I snapped the turtle (heheheh) because I had a language student affiliated with a company that has a turtle logo. I planned to show him the image and we'd consider the messages it conveyed.
But I also looked up the business that shared the wall.
Holy tortoise shells!
The headlines burst at me:
- Buried Treasure A Mystery To Authorities
- Tattered Cash a Buried Treasure or Something More Sinister?
- Ruined U.S. Cash Worth Millions, but Stories are Priceless
The story opens like an action movie that glues you to your seat for the next two hours: The businessman arrived at the Treasury Department carrying a suitcase stuffed with about $5.2 million. The bills were decomposing, nearly unrecognizable, and he asked to swap them for a cashier's check. (Associated Press)
You can watch the real-life trailer here, in this AP video:
And people ask me why I moved to El Paso.
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