Boy tears up over 3k yuan cash

Employees of the local branch of China Construction Bank tapes together shredded cash in Xi'an, Shaanxi province on December 30, 2013. Photo: hsw.cn

Nobody knows turning your back on a small child can cost you better than a mother in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, whose child happily ripped up a pile of cash worth 3,585 yuan ($591.88) as she cleaned the house.

A woman surnamed Yang brought in the shredded cash into the local branch of China Construction Bank on December 30, 2013, where five employees spent three hours taping together 39 bills after her four-year-old son ripped up the small fortune, portal hsw.cn reported.

"I was busy cleaning and did not notice what he was doing," said Yang, "By the time I noticed he had already torn up the money into pieces, some of which were as small as a fingernail," she added.