12-year old brings $20,000 to school in backpack, hands it out to friends.

For about five minutes the kid was really popular until the principal took the backpack o' cash and called the cops.

Police and school officials have no comment on where the student found that kind of coin, other than it probably came from a neighbor's child who took it from their own home. We're left to draw our own conclusions of the money's origins before that.

In other breaking news developments: 12-year olds and illicit crack money never sounded so cute!