News: Child steals $4,000, Spends it on Candy

Medo

Photo is from Google, Not an actual photo of the kid

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Imagine a kid in a candy store. Now imagine a kid in a candy store with $4,000 to spend.

A nine-year-old Ukrainian boy spent nearly $4,000 at a candy store in Konotop, Ukraine on Nov. 7, according to Russian and international news agency RIA Novosti. The child stole the money from his parents who kept their life savings under their sofa.

“The disappearance was first spotted by the father, a shift worker who had just returned home,” said a local police officer. “He opened the stash and saw that it was empty.”

The boy’s purchase wasn’t easy to come by. His parents kept their savings in dollars and euros rather than the local Ukrainian currency, so the child recruited an adult accomplice, who reportedly had a mental disorder, according to RIA Novosti, to help him convert the money.

The story is more evidence of why keeping money under your sofa may not be the best idea. Not only is the cash susceptible to theft, it is easy to misplace or forget about. One Australian couple learned this the hard way after accidently cooking $15,000 in savings that they kept in their oven. Another family in New Jersey is still searching for the life savings of a relative who died in 1974 and hid his money around his house, Newsroom New Jersey reports.

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The Russian RIA Novosti reported Wednesday that the boy did not eat all the candy in one place and actually shared it with his friends

He also tipped the man who helped convert the money. The man who helped him has been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

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Mellark

Just for Candy?

private radio

Stole?

Rihductive

Banks.

jongshic

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The child stole the money from his parents who kept their life savings under their sofa.

Hunter_13

Under their sofa?

EOMM92

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But seriously they'll be fine without $4k, it's not like their life is ruined or something.

i spit on haters

The parents are idiots for keeping their life savings in such an easy place to find.

BlackJesus

This is why people should use the BANK!!!!!

stoopidjenna

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Originally posted by EOMM92

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But seriously they'll be fine without $4k, it's not like their life is ruined or something.

Their life savings though

Cobrastyle.

First of all...

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The child stole the money from his parents who kept their life savings under their sofa.

what?

Guernica

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Another family in New Jersey is still searching for the life savings of a relative who died in 1974 and hid his money around his house, Newsroom New Jersey reports.

How big is his house exactly that they still haven't found it?

Midnight

Something tells me that that child got the ass whipping of a lifetime...

Haus

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Originally posted by stoopidjenna

Their life savings though

Exactly... it's sad

People need to learn to use banks

MusicLoverDude

That'd

MaRy

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the child recruited an adult accomplice, who reportedly had a mental disorder, according to RIA Novosti, to help him convert the money

BadKidBrodie

Under the couch?

Ozzy8923

Now, my question is, how did the child know there was money under the sofa to begin with?

How in the name of all that is holy did a 4 year old boy manage to contact/find/encounter a RANDOM man with a MENTAL disorder who helped him change the money to Ukrainian currency?

Did no one notice a FOUR year old boy leave his home ALONE to go buy candy? Someone should of noticed a random little boy trotting around with 4K dollars and a mentally disabled man to a candy shop!

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I feel as if this is fake. I mean, even that picture seems staged. It's just all a jumble of things going on. Seems like something like this could never happen in the real world.

If it IS real:

Those ****ers are such idiots!

Medo

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Originally posted by Ozzy8923

How in the name of all that is holy did a 4 year old boy manage to contact/find/encounter a RANDOM man with a MENTAL disorder who helped him change the money to Ukrainian currency?

The kid's 9 years old, Not 4.

and the photo's from Google, it's not of the boy

Rami328

This kid is my hero tbh