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Coins are tossed into cash boxes on buses across China, but no one would expect a bus company to pay kilos of their earnings as traffic accident compensation.
A woman named Ms. Mou, from northeastern China’s Dalian city, however, received over 40 kilograms of coins as medical care reimbursement, a local newspaper Bandao Morning News reported on Saturday.
Ms. Mou receives compensation all in coins.
Last December, Ms. Mou traveled on a bus, which got hit by another bus owned by Dalian Yuanchen Passenger Transportation Company. It was a rear-end collision.
While many passengers were injured, Ms. Mou got hurt seriously.
“I was sitting in the last row. I got hurt around the waist, too painful to bear,” said the woman.
Police arrived soon at the scene for investigation and came to the conclusion that the bus company Yuanchen should take full responsibility for the accident.
Ms. Mou was later sent to a hospital for treatment, diagnosed with multiple soft-tissue injuries.
The bus company asked Ms. Mou to pay for all the expenses amounting to 7,000 yuan (1,030 US dollars) with the promise of reimbursement.
Ms. Mou shows some of the coins.
After recovering from the accident, Ms. Mou started asking for reimbursement, but in vain.
“For half a year, I visited the company’s office for over ten times, yet they kept telling me to wait and procrastinate on the compensation,” Ms. Mou told the local newspaper.
On Saturday, Ms. Mou was finally informed to get the compensation. The company told her that she would receive compensation in coins.
Alerted, Ms. Mou reached the company office along with her relatives, who helped her take all the coins back home.
“I thought they might give me currency notes, never have I expected all the coins!”
Ms. Mou later found out that the coins weighed 40 kilograms.
Ms. Mou believed the company paid her with large coins out of revenge.
“We had unpleasant negotiations over the amount of money,” she said.
Over a million netizens read and shared the story on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
“You should question the amount and ask the company staff to count all the coins! How dare they.” @tianerdeshishi commented.
(CGTN)
