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$6,600 in Shredded Cash Restored by "Jigsaw Expert"

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12 Dec 2010 13 views
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$6,600 in Shredded Cash Restored by "Jigsaw Expert"
Taiwan's Justice Ministry offers a free forensic service for repairing damaged cash, which is lucky for Lin, the man who accidentally shredded $6,600 last month. Nicknamed the jigsaw expert a specialist took just seven days to piece together the remains of 200 $1,000 Thai bills that were mistakenly dropped into a shredding machine.

Taiwan's Justice Ministry offers a free forensic service for repairing damaged cash, which is lucky for Lin, the man who accidentally shredded $6,600 last month.

Nicknamed the "jigsaw expert" a specialist took just seven days to piece together the remains of 200 $1,000 bills that were mistakenly dropped into a shredding machine.

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