Melbourne grandma loses life savings after shopping trolley mix-up
A Melbourne grandmother has lost her life savings after a shopping trolley mix-up saw a stranger accidently make off with the $20,000 she had stowed inside.
Florence Sindik, a 71-year-old from the suburb of Carnegie, walked 300 metres with a shopping trolley to the local post office to pay her monthly bills.
Sindik carried the cash, which she was too worried to leave at home, in her trolley with her at all times, but when she turned around it was gone. ‘
"I haven't been eating, sleeping - I've been crying myself to sleep every night since it happened," Florence Sindik said.
"I was concentrating on what I was doing, paying the bills and then when I finish, I turn around and it was gone, my trolley was gone," she said.
Half the money reportedly belongs to her ex-husband who now lives in a care facility, and is required to pay the bills for his nursing.
"She called me and said it was the worst day of her life," Kathy Brown, her daughter, said.
Sindik is worried that if the money isn’t returned she won’t be able to support herself or her ex-husband.
"It's not just all my life savings, it's someone else's as well," she said.
What are your thoughts? Should the person who took the money come forward? Or should Sindik have been paying more attention to her trolley?
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