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Amanda Butterfield ReportingEmployees at a convenience store in Salt Lake can't believe what was taken from their store over the weekend, hundreds of dollars, but none of it from the register.
Oh sure they have drive off's here, small things stolen, but what was taken this weekend just makes the owners sick.
Rachel Winger: "It was just right here, full."
But now it's empty. About $600, all raised for charity, is gone.
Rachel Winger: "They just found it thrown in the yard next door." At it's all empty? "Completely empty. We didn't know what to think, couldn't believe it. We were in shock."
Rachel's Dad owns a Chevron station on 33rd, and agreed to set a bucket on the counter to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Rachel Winger: "It's taken three weeks to raise that much, actually almost four now."
But over the weekend, someone, likely a customer, swiped it. No one saw who and the surveillance cameras weren't taping. That left no evidence, so the store owners didn't call police.
The is part of an MDA annual fundraiser. Business owners are asked to put the buckets on their counters to raise money, and then asked to get "locked up": calling for pledges to raise $1800 to "post bail."
The money taken from the Chevron station would have paid for 24 flu shots for a child with Muscualr Dystrophy, three clinical diagnostic exams, or it would have sent one child to a week-long summer camp.
Steve Vyke: "It gives the kids a chance to get away from doctors. Get to know some of the other kids living with nueromuscular disease."
That's why employees here are sick about this theft.
Rachel Winger: "We're just hoping people hear about this, come in, make a little bit bigger donation than normal. We really want to raise it back up because we think it's a good charity."
Rachel Winger says the surveillance cameras are working now.
