Sweet And Sour Pork Farmer With Shredded Beef

Having been burgled previously a canny Chinese pig farmer came up with the sweet idea of hiding his family's entire year's earnings in a corn grinder, reports the Changchun-based City Evening News.

Unfortunately his brilliant idea turned sour when he forgot the money was there when he went to grind some corn for pig feed.

It wasn't until it was too late that Ji Zhankui realized that the red scraps of paper pouring out of the machine represented the family's total income for the previous year.

Ji is upset (that's the beef connection, keep up) that the People's Bank of China have refused to accept the notes as legal tender unless he can reassemble them by at least three quarters each.

Incidentally, what does an average poor Chinese pig farmer shred in a year? Five thousand yuan, which is about five hundred quid.