Man hides cash in oven; cash gets baked by accident
One man probably has learned a costly lesson about where
he hides his cash.
The unidentified father from Sydney, Australia, sold his
car last weekend. The $15,000 (approximately $15,652 in U.S. dollars) in
proceeds was earmarked for his mortgage payment and other bills, according to Australian
media. Opting not to squirrel away the loot in a mattress or bury it in his
backyard, he decided to hide it his oven, which rarely gets used.
Bad move: Turns out, his wife decided to use the oven
that day, preheating it for chicken nuggets for their two children and, yes,
cooked the cash.
"It was everything I had," he told the news
station. "I've got nothing to my name. That money was supposed to go
towards my mortgage."
His wife was equally distraught and, reportedly, could
not stop crying when telling her husband after she discovered what happened:
The cash was baked into a colorful burnt mess.
The man reached out to his lender and the Reserve Bank of
Australia for help.
The Reserve Bank advises people to take damaged currency
to a bank. According to the Reserve Bank policy, "if several pieces of the
same banknote are presented, the Reserve Bank's policy is for each piece to be
worth a share of the value in proportion to its size... The combined value paid
should be the face value of the original banknote."
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