Mouse builds home in pile of cash

There are few precedents for building a house out of money. Not since inflation-hit Germans used cash for wallpaper in the Weimar Republic has anyone devised a cost-effective way to go about it.

That all changed this morning when we read about the heroic efforts of a mouse in America that was found inside a cash machine in Oregon having made a nest out of $20 bills.

Millie Taylor, an employee at the Gem Stop Chevron in Le Grande, Oregon, said she had opened the cash machine last Thursday when she spotted the money-loving rodent. "I saw these beady eyes and a lot of chewed up $20 bills," Taylor said. "It was a pretty spendy nest."

Two $20 bills were completely torn up by the mouse and 14 others were damaged. The bank replaced the damaged bills but chalked the other two up as a loss.

Incidentally the only other mouse we can think of that made a home in a money-making machine is a trademarked symbol of the Walt Disney Corp...