More than 6.85 millions of Yen in shredded money turns up at garbage recycling center in Gifu Prefecture Japan

torn_yen.jpg Workers at the Hashima Recycling Center, Japan found a total of 683 ¥10,000 bills in addition to two ¥5,000 bills, 12 ¥1,000 bills and assorted coins worth ¥1,376. The shredded bills and mangled coins were found on Saturday while the Hashima Recycling Center was separating recyclable garbage after breaking waste collected from businesses into small pieces.

The garbage with the money ($72,300) could have come from Shizuoka, Gifu and Aichi prefectures. Police confiscated the money and are looking for the owner.

October 27, 2008 - 6:50 AM | Posted in - Other Stuff | | | | | |


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