NXG

Binman finds £10k cash in shreds:

BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | Binman finds £10k cash in shreds

Now that would be time well spent....

Luke-Avfc

"The biggest piece of money was about an inch square... It is a massive jigsaw puzzle."

If he decides to give it a go he will weigh about 4 stone and be as pale as a crack head holidaying in Greenland by the time he leaves his house again..

zs_phil

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how do they know there is £10,000

tath

weight?

wiley

iTrader: (63)

hope he has good eyes, and good at jigsaw puzzles lol

wile

Butty

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That's 15,000 pieces minimum

Doesn't he "just" need the serial numbers to swap for a nice crisp note?

scoobyc

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There is a machine in existsance which takes shreds of paper, scans them, and re-arranges them automatically.

He could use this machine, simple number each piece and the computer will tell him which bits go together very quickly.

They used this recently on german documents shredded when we invaded in WWii. Apparently it got alot of high up germans scared with what they would find

NXG

Yeah, the machine costs .... you guessed it .... £10,000

davegtt

Nice find but would you really want to mess about with all that?

stilover

I saw a program years ago, and the bank of England do have specialists who can do this for you.

They were piecing together notes that had been burned.

dpb

Many it was Gordan Brown that spent all that time cutting up the notes

- i think hes trying to tell us something

flat4 to the floor

they never mentioned the other £2k that was found on the other side of town by a binman also.we are a generous lot around here but like to remain anon,haha people in the local rag are whinging that as he works for the council and was being paid by them at the time of the find it should belong to them(council tax complaints all over)all good untill someone said would they be happy if you went to city hall and emptied your wheely bin all over the floor,as if it is in a bin it belongs to them,

bugeyeandy

Maybe it's some joker who's loaded. He's gone and cut all the serial numbers off 10k's worth of cash and then left the rest cut up in a bin bag for someone to "find".

Oh how disappointed that binman's going to be when he's pieced them all together again