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MONTAGUE, Mass., Nov. 29 (UPI) — Donations more than replenished the $1,000 an elderly Massachusetts woman lost in a freak shopping cart accident that sent her cash a-blowin’ in the wind.

Mary Olive Corbiere, 83, left her money-filled purse in a shopping cart in a parking lot in Montague, Mass., Tuesday when a wind gust sent the cart under a passing delivery truck, The Republican in Springfield, Mass., reported Thursday. While the cart broke free, the retired English teacher’s purse didn’t and friction from the tires burned and shredded it.

When the purse finally released its contents, the ripped and singed cash flew out along the pavement. Police recovered some of it but most was picked up by passing motorists, the newspaper reported…Click here to read entire story