Binman faces £10,000 jigsaw puzzle

I think I would be very tempted to try, especially this time of year! But you'd have to do all of it though. I mean, with it all shredded like that you couldn't really just do a bit and leave the rest. There aren't many reasons for someone ripping money up like that. If they've deliberately cut it up so that the serial numbers aren't make-out-able then one could only assume that the money was either stolen or fake but there might be another explanation such as that someone was given it as a gift from someone they didn't like or something and would rather have nothing than take something from that person.

Dear Mr Owlwings a bright man like you should have known the reasons behind the shredding of this money. The facts are as follows:- A gentleman who worked for the Royal Mint was asked to take some highly secret documents home for shredding. Sadly someone had turned the office shredder off at the socket and there was no-one who knew how to get it working again. The papers were placed in a carrier bag, the reason for this being that high officials have more chance of not losing carrier bags than they have of not losing briefcases. The reason behind this being that a carrier bag usually contains something his wife has asked for and few men wish to suffer their wifes wrath. Briefcases only contain confidential information or sandwiches so the officials take a lot less care. Anyway, on his way home on the train he sat next to a man who had just found the proceeds of a sixty year old crime buried in a box on a railway station, I cannot say where as there may be more there, he had a carrier identical to the one used by the Royal Mint man and of course they took the wrong ones when they got off the train. The Royal Mint man was late home and had forgotten the potatoes his wife had asked him to get, as you can imagine he was in a lot of trouble at home but he knew it was vital that the documents were shredded immediately. He decided the quickest way would be to put carrier and all into the garden shredder. He then realised that he shouldn't leave the remains in his own wheelie bin just in case anyone found out about him bringing the documents home and he risked losing his job. He went to the nearest street bin and dumped the remains without looking. Meanwhile the other man had found he had the wrong bag but he realised that the bag he had was far more valueable than the original, as the notes from the robbery were no longer legal tender. In the carrier he ended up with there was the bank details of all of the major banks and, being a very clever computer hacker, he hacked into all of the banks computers and transferred all the money to Iceland, (th country, not the shop), As all the top bankers get such high salaries they dare not admit to losing the banks money so he was safe and Iceland felt they deserved the money that had suddenly arrived so they decided to spend it. Before they could decide what to spend the money on, the man transferred all the money from Iceland into a Swiss bank account in his young sons name. This explains the finding of the money and also the reason behind the credit crunch. Two birds with one stone, a good way to beat the crunch. Sorry if there a spelling mistakes I got carried away. Thanks for this my imagination had been taking a holiday and I think you encouraged it to come back to work.

it sounds too good to be true.seems he was a mental patient who did not know the value of money.maybe to pass his time,he/she cut it into bits.

Maybe the money got put through the shredder in a manner that parallels an incident that happened to my parents. We heated and cooked with a wood burning stove, which was also used as an incinerator. All trash that would burn was thrown in the stove. In the early 1940s, every penny was important to a farmer. Without telling my mother, my father had sold his saddle. He put the money in an envelope and gave it to my mother. Supposing that it was trash, she promptly threw it in the stove. There went $65.00 that could have gone to buy seed to plant or shoes for their 3 children.

I read the news story but I can't think of any plausible reason that the money would be thrown out like that. You said it was cut into small pieces. Do you mean like a shredder? Several thought came to mind. The first one was that it was old money that had been shredded by the government and somehow got thrown out with the regular trash. Actually, that is about the best idea. One time I was looking in a craft store for some shredded material to put in the bottom of a wicker basket in order to make a gift basket out of it. I found this bag of what I thought was fake shredded paper money. The thing was it was not fake. It was old money that the government had shredded then packaged and sold for crafting purposes. It said on the bag how much was in there but there would have been no way to put it together again and cash it in. If this guy does get some of it back together I'm sure it will take him a long time.

Does he need any help.my goodness what a job.I just hope he don't spend all that time putting them to gether and find out they are duds.