Pensioner Throws 15K in Garbage

Wed 13th Jan, 2010

Haar / Munich. A 79-year-old man from Haar (a district of Munich) accidentally put 15000 euros in the general waste bin. The man turned to the police on Tuesday, reports Taz. When moving flat he placed an envelope with the cash on the wrong pile and threw away the entire stack. The city official authorities stated that the garbage was not emptied that day, but the 79-year-old was unlucky, the needed bin had been already emptied on Saturday and the garbage from it was burned the same day in an incinerator.


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