$12,000 left at restaurant: Gift or drug money?  A Minnesota
waitress who says a customer told her she could keep a box
containing $12,000 has sued after police impounded the cash as
suspected drug money.  Stacy Knutson of Moorhead, Minn., filed a
lawsuit asking that the cash be returned to her. She said she
believes the money was meant as an anonymous gift from someone
who knew that she, her husband and five children were struggling
with severe financial difficulties.  "I do know that the person
gave me what was in that to-go bag," Knutson wrote in the
lawsuit filed in March. "Thus as I understand it, it is mine."
A message left at Knutson's home Wednesday was returned by her
attorney, Craig Richie, who said his client is "overwhelmed" and
didn't want to speak to a reporter.  The lawsuit says Knutson
was working at the Fry'n Pan restaurant when a customer left
behind a takeout box from another restaurant. She followed the
diner to her car and tried to return the box but the lady said,
"No, I am good, you ke