One morning in December last year, schoolgirls Rachel Aumann and Maisie Balley were on their way to school when they saw lots of pieces on paper on the ground. They picked up some pieces and looked at them: they were tiny pieces of banknotes. But where did they come from? Rachel and Maisie noticed a bag in the rubbish bin - it had thousands of pieces of banknotes in it. The two 12-year-olds went to school and told their teachers. Then, after school, they took the bag to the police station and handed in the money.
The police kept the money for six month. During that time no owner asked for it, so the police gave back the money to the girls. For the next few months the girls with Rachel's stepfather, spent time every evening matching the numbers on the pieces, and they put together a lot of the banknotes. They now have $1,200 in $10 notes, but they think there's another $800 in the pieces of $5 and $20 notes. Whose money was it? The girls have no idea, but they are happy that it belongs to them now! Rachel wants to keep her money for when she goes to university, but Maisie wants to go shopping right now!