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Dick Mason

The Observer

August 07, 2009 02:11 pm

A mouse robbed the Gem Stop Chevron convenience store on Island Avenue Thursday.

A mouse with no larceny in its heart but a taste for $20 bills.

The tiny rodent squeezed into the automated teller machine inside the store and made a nest with $20 bills.

The ATM was operating well and nobody suspected anything. That is, until Millie Taylor, a Gem Stop employee, opened it around 9 a.m. Thursday and received the surprise of her life. I saw these beady eyes and a lot of chewed up $20 bills, Taylor said.

She slammed the ATM s door shut and screamed. Then she composed herself.

I stayed calm until the customers left.

Taylor then carefully opened up the ATM machine and found a nest made from torn up $20 bills.

It was a pretty spendy nest, Taylor said.

The mouse had completely torn up two $20 bills and damaged 14 others. Fortunately, a bank replaced the 14 bills that were not extensively damaged. But the two other $20 bills were a total loss.

No bills damaged by the mouse were dispensed to customers.

The mouse, unharmed, was taken outside and allowed to run away.

There was not a trial or anything, Taylor said with a laugh.

Gem Stop employees are still mystified as to how the mouse got in the ATM machine.

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