Shredded cash rescued
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December 10, 2010, Friday
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A TAIWAN justice official, nicknamed the "jigsaw expert," spent a week painstakingly piecing together thousands of scraps of banknotes to help a man who accidentally put the cash through a shredder.
Liu Hui-fen, with the help of an aide, meticulously reassembled 200,000 New Taiwan dollars (US$6,600) from thousands of tiny pieces and returned them to their owner yesterday.
The man, who only gave his surname, Lin, said he accidentally dumped a plastic bag containing 200 NT$1,000 bills into an industrial scrap machine last month, where each was torn into 20 pieces. He later went to the Investigations Bureau where Liu works to ask for help.
Stymied at first by the unwieldy pile of scraps, Liu soon found a way to attack the problem. She located a Chinese character first on each bill, and then worked outwards.
When the job was finally done, she said it was the most difficult she'd ever accomplished, but said she also had a lot of fun helping out Lin.
Liu usually investigates handwriting samples, but has a special brief to work on cases dealing with damaged banknotes - handling 247 of them in the past five years.
"I was so happy whenever I was able to put a piece into its right place," she said.
In Taiwan, people can claim replacement bills from the banking authorities as long as at least 75 percent of the original is pieced together.
A chastened Lin expressed his gratitude for Liu's work. "I'm sorry the job brought her so much trouble," he said.
Liu Hui-fen, with the help of an aide, meticulously reassembled 200,000 New Taiwan dollars (US$6,600) from thousands of tiny pieces and returned them to their owner yesterday.
The man, who only gave his surname, Lin, said he accidentally dumped a plastic bag containing 200 NT$1,000 bills into an industrial scrap machine last month, where each was torn into 20 pieces. He later went to the Investigations Bureau where Liu works to ask for help.
Stymied at first by the unwieldy pile of scraps, Liu soon found a way to attack the problem. She located a Chinese character first on each bill, and then worked outwards.
When the job was finally done, she said it was the most difficult she'd ever accomplished, but said she also had a lot of fun helping out Lin.
Liu usually investigates handwriting samples, but has a special brief to work on cases dealing with damaged banknotes - handling 247 of them in the past five years.
"I was so happy whenever I was able to put a piece into its right place," she said.
In Taiwan, people can claim replacement bills from the banking authorities as long as at least 75 percent of the original is pieced together.
A chastened Lin expressed his gratitude for Liu's work. "I'm sorry the job brought her so much trouble," he said.
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