Like The Joker burning his enormous pile of cash in The Dark Knight, an 85-year-old grandmother reportedly shredded her $1.1million (£726,000) fortune to spite her heirs.
(The parallels between the elderly woman and The Joker end there, we hasten to add.)
Prosecutors in Austria said the woman, who was not identified and died in a retirement home, cut up her banknotes and saving books into tiny pieces and left them on her bed in tatters.
Austria’s central bank agreed to replace the cash, but on the condition that the heirs ‘find shreds of money and assure the origin of the money.’
In other words, the heirs to this fortune are going to have to gather up each individual bit of banknote. Source...
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(The parallels between the elderly woman and The Joker end there, we hasten to add.)
Prosecutors in Austria said the woman, who was not identified and died in a retirement home, cut up her banknotes and saving books into tiny pieces and left them on her bed in tatters.
Austria’s central bank agreed to replace the cash, but on the condition that the heirs ‘find shreds of money and assure the origin of the money.’
In other words, the heirs to this fortune are going to have to gather up each individual bit of banknote. Source...
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