Police say a fifth-grader handed out about $300 to others on the bus ride to his Eastern Indiana school. Problem is, they say, the cash was part of some $10,000 he removed from his grandparents' safe.

Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan says the boy was riding the bus to Selma Elementary School when he handed out the money that Friday, the last school day before Christmas vacation began.

Children who received the ones, fives and twenties told teachers and the principal, and the sheriff's department was called.

Officers found the boy carrying the rest of the cash, which was returned to his grandparents. Police weren't certain what he intended to do with the money or how he got it from the locked safe.

This is probably a pretty good example of why you should keep your savings where it's not so easily accessible. I have stated many times before that children watch just about everything we do.

This fifth-grader could have easily seen where his grandparents hid the safe and perhaps even watched them do the combination lock. Maybe even in their parental doubt they may have told him the combination, not believing he would actually use it to get the money.

It's possible that he was not aware that this could have been his grandparents' life savings and just took it upon himself to be "generous" with it. Children often don't really understand how money works and he may have just assumed it was no great loss.

He did, however, seem to understand how money can be spent or given as gifts. His intensions may have been to buy presents for all he knew including his grandparents, but luckily he was stopped before he could get really creative!

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