三重県廢物処理中心發現一公斤切碎日元

Last month the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:

１万円札:三重の産廃施設で１キロ分発見

毎日新聞　2013年05月24日　22時17分（最終更新　05月24日　22時52分）

　２３日午前８時半ごろ、三重県四日市市の産業廃棄物処理施設で、裁断された１万円札が約１キロ見つかった。県警四日市北署は遺失物として保管している。

　同署によると、施設の男性従業員が収集したごみを裁断中、１万円札の紙片が交じっているのを見つけた。最大で紙幣の４分の１の大きさで、最初から裁断されていたかは不明という。

　紙片は今週、東海３県の事業所から集めた可燃、不燃ごみに交じっていた。１万円札の重さは１枚約１グラムという。【岡正勝】

(試譯文)

   On the 23^rd at around 8:30 am about 1 kg cut-out ten thousand yen bill was found in the industrial waste disposal facility in Yokkaichi city, Mie. The Prefecture Police’s Yokkaichi north office was keeping it as a lost article.

    According to the police station, while the male employee of the facility collected the cut-out trash, it was found out that paper pieces were mixed with ten thousand yen bills. It was said that at the beginning it was unnoticed; it was judged that the maximum size was in 1/4 of the bill.

   The paper pieces were mixed with the inflammable and the incombustible trash which were collected this week from the business locations at the three Tokai prefectures. It was said that the weight of a ten thousand yen bill was about 1 gram per sheet.

I think the discovery of these shredded bills could make a good start of a detective story. One kg is equal to one thousand grams; the amount of money involved should be around ten million yen.