She Accidentally Shredded 11 Banknotes—Now She’s Reassembling the Pieces
We’ve all been there: a sudden sneeze, a distracted moment, and… you just turned a tidy stack of money into a paper shredder mess.
The Day of the Disaster
- Date: June 2, 2024
- What happened? An envelope filled with 11 50,000‑won notes (about the price of a fancy coffee) got slipped into the office shredder.
- Result: In under a minute, the money was sliced into thousands of tiny fragments.
The “Crazy” Search for a Fix
Feeling a mix of panic and curiosity, she hit up online forums. The takeaway? To get those notes back, they must be restored to at least 80 % of their original condition.
Below is the “menu” she was served:
- Step 1: Gather all the shreds and lay them out.
- Step 2: Use a flat surface and a magnifying lens.
- Step 3: Piece together each fragment—like a paper puzzle.
- Step 4: Repeat until you can see the full face of the banknote.
Keep It Fun—The Family Edition
After work, the house became a puzzle lounge. Her husband and daughter turned the floor into a giant table of scraps, cheering her on and making jokes about “the shredded cash scavenger hunt.”
Victory Day—July
Fast forward one month: after countless hours, she finished the job and successfully swapped the restored notes at the bank. She’d recovered the full amount—no more shredding mischief this time.
Remember, life happens, and sometimes a shredded error turns into a great bonding activity—just watch closely, and keep your kitchen‑cleaner button in reach!
With the reassembled banknotes, the woman managed to exchange them for new ones at the bank.
Her persistence also impressed her boss, who decided to reward her with a meal.
She took to social media on July 11 to share her experience.
When her story was shared on Weibo this week, users commented, “This woman can go crack police cases since she can reassemble these shredded banknotes. Respect!”
Another wrote, “A shredder that cuts papers up in strips is still okay, my officer shredder cuts documents in pieces so small, there’s no hope of putting anything back together.”
The incident also serves as a reminder to other officer workers — look twice before you slide papers into the shredder.
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