‘Always with me’: elderly woman in China who carried life savings everywhere for safety in tears after US$206,000 she left on bus is found
- Shanghai woman takes all she owns everywhere after her home was robbed
- Hours after leaving bag with valuables on bus she bursts into tears when property is returned intact
The story of a woman who left her life savings – valuables worth more than 1.5 million yuan (US$206,000) – on a bus in China has trended on mainland social media.
The elderly woman – who had acquired the habit of carrying her financial future everywhere she went for safe keeping – left the valuables onboard the vehicle in Shanghai.
Luckily, her property was retrieved hours after she reported it lost to the bus company, Shanghai TV reported.
The incident happened on October 5 when the woman in her 60s, surnamed Sun, boarded a bus in the city’s Minhang District.
Footage from a surveillance camera on the vehicle showed her placing a red cloth bag on a panel behind the driver’s seat. Inside was 5,000 yuan (US$685) in cash, her ID and social security cards, several bankbooks and debenture certificates.
The items had a combined value of more than 1.5 million yuan, according to the report.