Savings: Are banks safer than shoes?

A man from Romania was given quite a scare when he concluded that he didn’t trust the local banks and stored his money at home instead. According to Romanian newspapers the man in question secreted €40,000 in a pair of old shoes before Christmas. But in a pre-Christmas tidy-up his wife threw away the shoes and their valuable contents. Once the mistake came to light the couple informed the police and a search began. In early January it was discovered that a woman had found the shoes. She was questioned by the authorities while residing in her new €22,000 cottage.