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July 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A Sydney man who hid $15,000 in cash in his oven was left with a colourful melted mess after his wife turned it on.
The Merrylands father-of-two, who did not want to be identified out of embarrassment, sold his beloved Toyota Supra sports car for $15,000 on Saturday afternoon and stashed the wads of notes in his kitchen oven.
He said he believed the cash would be safe in the oven because his wife never used it.
It was a decision he regretted yesterday after his wife struggled to tell him the money had literally gone up in smoke.
She had turned on the oven to pre-heat some chicken nuggets for their two girls and inadvertently cooked the cash.
“It was everything I had,” he told ninemsn.
“I’ve got nothing to my name. That money was supposed to go towards my mortgage. I had a call from Westpac on Tuesday asking me when I would pay because I missed a payment on Monday.”
“I told them ‘I’ll pay tomorrow’ but then the money was burnt’.”
His distraught wife said she “couldn’t stop crying” when she told her husband what had happened.
“I struggled to breathe, I said ‘I burnt the money, I burnt the money’. I felt like I was going to faint,” she said.
He said he was forced to sell his sports car to pay bills because the slow-down in the building industry had affected his metal roofing business.
“After a while it started to sink in, you’ve got kids, a mortgage, a family car to run and I’m thinking what am I going to do,” he said.
After finding the melted cash he immediately set off to his bank in an attempt to deposit the money. but the teller at Merrylands’ Westpac branch refused to accept the cash or to send it off to the Reserve Bank of Australia for assessment.
“I was quite insulted. I asked her to send it to the RBA, I told her ‘please it’s all I got’ but she didn’t want to.” he said.
The RBA has a clear policy on damaged and incomplete banknotes and advises people to take their damaged notes to banks, which the RBA encourages to “accept all claims”.
“If several pieces of the same banknote are presented, the Reserve Bank’s policy is for each piece to be worth a share of the value in proportion to its size,” the RBA policy reads.
“The combined value paid should be the face value of the original banknote.”
If less than 20 percent of the note is missing full face value is paid but if between 20-80 percent of the note is missing “value is paid in proportion with the percentage remaining, e.g. half face value if half the banknote is present”.
If more than 80 percent of the banknote is missing no payment is made.
A spokesman for Westpac Merrylands said a teller would not take his money “because the notes were really shrunk and totally sticky”.
The spokesman offered an apology to him and said “we will do whatever we can do within the guidelines” and that he would go out of his way to help the customer.
To make matters worse, the family’s water was cut off today after failing to pay their bill.
Source: Westpac, Reserve Bank of Australia
Author: Martin Zavan. Approving editor: Henri Paget.
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