"How can I not open the door? They have flowers, they say my husband sent them to me, and, besides, they were young kids," said 80-year-old Carmen Nieves. Ms Nieves was speaking after two bouquet-wielding young men relieved her of the $60,000 in savings her husband kept in cash in their home. Nieves went on to say that, once inside her home, they ransacked it "like a tornado."

Rather stupidly, Nieves' husband, Michael Rodriguez, had told somebody about the cache of money and believes that might have led to the robbery. Well, its not rocket science is it. If he'd banked the money he could have bought his wife some flowers with the interest.

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