Woman in northern China rips open ATM to get her ‘swallowed’ card
PUBLISHED : Friday, 26 June, 2015, 3:27pm
UPDATED : Friday, 26 June, 2015, 3:27pm
A woman in northeastern China pulled apart an ATM at a train station, claiming it had swallowed her card, according to a newspaper report.
The woman pulled at the cashpoint machine for 10 minutes at Changchun in Jilin province before she managed to rip off the front, the China Youth Daily reported.
After taking out some of the machine’s parts on Thursday afternoon she asked passers-by to help her find her card.
Several people called the police and officers who arrived at the scene later suspected the woman maybe mentally ill.
A man at the station had successfully duped her into shouting at the machine at one point to get her card to come out, the report said.
The woman has been sent to hospital for checks.
Several people said she had come to the same ATM two months before, saying her card had been swallowed and had started putting small objects into the slot where cards are inserted.
The report quoted a member of staff at the ATM’s bank as expressing surprise that anybody could rip off the front of the machine.
A similar incident was reported in Guangdong province last year when a woman dismantled an ATM which had taken her bank card.
