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Too flush with marks
Too flush with marks
A German pensioner flushed bundles of old
banknotes down the lavatory because he
thought that the euro had made them
worthless, police in the northern city of Kiel
said. He was unaware that his 60,000 marks,
which the euro replaced in 2002, could still be
exchanged for about 30,000 euros (£20,000).Sewage workers recovered about half of the notes from the 64-year-old’s plumbing and the sewers. Police said that he dried and banked them. (Reuters) |