A heart-warming story from Taiwan is that a “jigsaw expert” was able to piece back together a large amount of accidentally shredded paper

The man, surnamed Lin, dropped a bag containing T$200,000 (S$8,708) in T$1,000 bills into his plastics factory’s shredding machine last month.

With the help of a local official, Lin had the shredded notes passed on to the forensics division of the Justice Ministry’s special investigations unit, which offers a free service repairing damaged cash.

There 30-year veteran forensic scientist Liu Hui-fen put all the notes back together in seven days, a task, she was quoted as saying, that was “difficult” and “required patience”.

Lin must feel grateful, but also the need to upgrade his shredding machine.