Fortunately, the school extended a hand afterward.
This family of Utah Utes fans has a bit of dilemma on its hands:
So me and my wife had been saving up to pay for our @Utah_Football tickets in cash. We pulled our money out yesterday to pay my mom for the season... Well we couldn’t find the envelope until my wife checked the shredder. Yup. 2 year old shredded $1,060. pic.twitter.com/93R9BWAVDE
— BB (@Benbelnap) October 2, 2018
It’s the classic danger every family worries about first when it buys a paper shredder and has small children in the house: what happens if the small child takes the money you were planning to use to buy season tickets for your Pac-12 football team of choice, then runs that money through a paper shredder and leaves your financing in taggers in Week 6.
While this is a devastating fate for $1,060 to meet, good on the Utes themselves for seeing a family in crisis and extending a helping hand during their hour of need:
OH NO! How could you be mad at that face, tho?
— Utah Football (@Utah_Football) October 5, 2018
We're excited to have @Benbelnap and his family join us on the sideline for the Arizona pregame next Friday. We are also happy to hear the tickets are safe and that the money should be returned! #GoUtes#BestFanshttps://t.co/mt6yC0Hg7M
The family was, indeed, working on getting its money back, apparently from the U.S. Treasury. And a bunch of people who saw the tweet offered to help in some way, so the guy who tweeted the photo of the shredded paper sent out this charitable link:
I’m not after any go-fund me or anything but this is a cause that my family and I care a lot about. We’ll hopefully get our money back from DC but refugee aid is a problem today. Hope everyone had a laugh at the story and brought you a little smile. https://t.co/M6Pp6AUjJl
— BB (@Benbelnap) October 5, 2018
It seems everything’s worked out.