Woman gets cold cash rather than cold cuts - Polidicks

[url]http://www.wtkr.com/news/offbeat/sns-rt-us-germany-butchertre7a04d3-20111101,0,4626607.story[/url] [quote]BERLIN (Reuters) - A butcher shop employee in the German town of Braunschweig inadvertently handed a customer a bag containing more than 2,000 euros ($2,835) in cold cash rather than the cold cuts she usually gets. The 79-year-old pensioner paid five euros for her package of cold cuts and veal steaks. She said she was surprised to find more than she bargained for when she opened the package at home. "I was completely flabbergasted," the pensioner told Bild newspaper. She called the butcher shop but it had already closed. So she called the police, who later returned it. The owner of the butcher shop had packed the day's take in a paper bag and placed it, as he usually does, next to the cash register. The employee mistook it for the customer's cold cuts and unwittingly handed her the package. The honest pensioner got a 100 euro reward from the butcher -- and a free basket of sausages.[/quote]

That reward is the best part of the story.

awww

That's sweet :)

It's better than the woman who found a US Mk 2 Grenade in her bag of Potatoes.

I want a free basket of sausages :( [editline]2nd November 2011[/editline] Time to go find money and then return it in hope of a reward! :v:

Veal and cold cuts? Veal is traditionally an expensive cut of meat. How did she get it for five euros? Is meat really that much cheaper there? I guess it is Germany, but jeeze. [editline]2nd November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33097878]It's better than the woman who found a US Mk 2 Grenade in her bag of Potatoes.[/QUOTE] Pffft, so says[I] you. [/I] :P

[QUOTE=GunFox;33098004]Veal and cold cuts? Veal is traditionally an expensive cut of meat. How did she get it for five euros? Is meat really that much cheaper there? I guess it is Germany, but jeeze. [editline]2nd November 2011[/editline] Pffft, so says[I] you. [/I] :P[/QUOTE] Meat as a whole is cheaper in Germany because so much is consumed (and farmed) there.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33097878]It's better than the woman who found a US Mk 2 Grenade in her bag of Potatoes.[/QUOTE] Really? How the fuck can that possibly happen?

Couldnt she feel the weight difference when she picked the bag up?

money is decently heavy there's be a difference but probably not too noticeable.

[QUOTE=Fort83;33097808][b][i]flabbergasted[/i][/b] What a unusual verb[/QUOTE] You seem bamboozled by this.

What a lovely story

[quote]The honest pensioner got a 100 euro reward from the butcher -- and a free basket of sausages.[/quote] What about the cold cuts?

[QUOTE=viperfan7;33098744]You seem bamboozled by this.[/QUOTE] "We've been smackledorfed!" 'Thats not even a word and I agree with ya!'

[QUOTE=LSK;33098324]Really? How the fuck can that possibly happen?[/QUOTE] My guess is that the inert grenade was lost in a field during World War 2, the field became a Potato field, and one day the Farmers 'harvested' the Grenade from the dirt, without noticing. It ended up being sold to an elderly woman who made the shocking discovery as she was washing the Potatoes at the kitchen sink.

Veal cuts? What a horrible woman.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;33097878]It's better than the woman who found a US Mk 2 Grenade in her bag of Potatoes.[/QUOTE] IIRC, my great-grandma or someone on the british side of the family once got a blasting cap in her coal. Totally fucked her range. :v:

I'll be honest I would've kept the money