GREENSBURG, Louisiana -- A bag of bills stolen from a casino and then abandoned in the woods by the thieves was snapped up by a community of local beavers. The animals wove thousands of dollars in soggy currency into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek in eastern Louisiana. The money was part of $70,000 to $75,000 taken last week from the Lucky Dollar Casino in the village of Greensburg.

　　St Helena Parish deputies searched for the money for days until a lawyer, hoping to make a deal with prosecutors for a client, called and said the money had been discarded in the creek, according to Police Chief Ronald Harrell. Altogether, deputies found about $40,000, and they expect to find the rest in a safety deposit box at a bank in Mississippi, authorities said.