Elderly woman shreds nearly €1m to spite her family
Prosecutors revealed after the woman died, the sizable sum, as well as her savings accounts books, were found shredded on her bed, according to The Rakyat Post.
An 85-year-old Austrian granny cut up nearly €1 million (S$1.5 million) in cash into tiny pieces in an apparent attempt to spite her heirs.
Since what the grandmother did was not a crime, police will not look into the matter The damage to the money was the woman’s own property and not a criminal matter.
Friedrich Hammerschmidt said, “If we didn’t pay out the money then we would be punishing the wrong people”.
But the deputy head of the country’s central bank’s cashier division, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), has said it will replace the money.
However, it turns out the woman’s surviving family will have the last laugh.
Propped up in a chair and surrounded by a few of her favorite things: Busch beer, menthol cigarettes, and a disco ball flashing overhead, the New Orleans native was the life of the party!
A grandmother who it’s been reported didn’t want any of her financial fortune to go to her family heirs cut all of her money up instead.
Miriam Burbank stayed absolutely fabulous right up until the end…