What would you do if you ran into an old lady pushing a shopping cart full of money? Local police of Otsu city, Shiga prefecture have taken into custody an elderly woman who was suffering from dementia and was pushing around a shopping cart with a total of 70 million yen.
At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, police in Shiga Prefecture received an emergency call from a passerby saying that an elderly woman was wandering about the streets, investigative sources said. Police then took the woman in her 80s into custody, and found a total of 70 million yen in cash and a significant number of share certificates in her shopping cart.
The woman appears to have carried around her savings whenever she took a stroll. Police officers said she was lucky not to have been the victim of a crime.
At first, the woman reportedly told police that only 10 million yen belonged to her, causing a panic among investigators as to where the rest of the money came from. However, her relatives later confirmed that all the money and stock certificates were her own property.
“She never trusted banks or family,” police quoted her relatives as saying.
The woman has been living alone since her husband died. She apparently started carrying around the money she withdrew from her bank account a few years ago.
Source: Mainichi Japan
I’m really surprise that no crooks actually attempted to rob her of her stash over the past few years. @_@
This is really sad. I hope she can be placed someplace to get some help in her final days on the planet.
I will not lie: I would steal that shopping cart in a blink of an eye.
honest is good haha
“I’m really surprise that no crooks actually attempted to rob her of her stash over the past few years. @_@”
Well, not anymore after this news is out. lol
If I ever see something like that I would most probably wouldn’t believe what I’m seeing yet I would call the police to try and help
Japan is relatively a safe place.
Maybe that’s why she’s doing fine this past few years.
Wow. To actually survive a few years pushing a cart filled with cash around when you go outside… that just proves how safe Japan is o.o;