Toddler shreds £3000 after finding family life savings

 A Chinese toddler with a penchant for tearing
up books saw his habit take a costly leap after
he got his hands on his parents’ life savings
and ripped the lot to shreds. The unnamed four-year-old tore his way
through notes worth £3,000 after discovering
the stash in a box under the bed. His mother Liu Fan said: "We don't have much
time for reading here and didn't really care
when he ripped up the old books we had lying
around, and it was easy to buy very cheap old
books down the market which he happily
ripped into small pieces. Money for nothing: £3,000 lays in tatters “I thought if I left him alone with a book for an
hour it would be no problem and we could
hear the ripping sounds from the kitchen but
didn't think anything of it. "My family told me
that it was not and I now realise they were
right after he found all our money and ripped it up. It was all our savings." The 28-year-old added the family had been
saving for a new apartment and believed their
dreams lay in pieces – before finding a bank in
Shaanxi province, west China, which has
agreed to match the value of the notes and
replace them. Fan added: "I realise that perhaps it wasn't
very sensible, I'm just very glad that the bank
staff agreed to help."