Woman eats £7,000 life savings to spite cheating husband
A woman in Colombia has eaten her entire life savings to stop her cheating husband getting his hands on the money.
Sandra Milena Almeida wolfed down £7,000 ($9,000) in cash after finding out her husband had been unfaithful.
The 30-year-old's actions were only discovered after she was taken to hospital suffering abdominal pains.
Doctors then found bundles of notes inside her stomach.
Mrs Almeida apparently hid the cash after finding out about her husband's infidelity.
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She took the extreme steps of eating the $100 bills after he discovered the hiding place and demanded half of it.
Relatives and doctors only discovered she'd eaten them after carrying out tests.
Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, told reporters: "57 $100 bills were found and extracted by the orifice opened in the stomach.
"Some extra rolls (of money) were found in the intestine, which advanced to the colon."
Source and more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39806529/woman-eats-7000-life-savings-to-spite-cheating-husband
A woman in Colombia has eaten her entire life savings to stop her cheating husband getting his hands on the money.
Sandra Milena Almeida wolfed down £7,000 ($9,000) in cash after finding out her husband had been unfaithful.
The 30-year-old's actions were only discovered after she was taken to hospital suffering abdominal pains.
Doctors then found bundles of notes inside her stomach.
Mrs Almeida apparently hid the cash after finding out about her husband's infidelity.
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She took the extreme steps of eating the $100 bills after he discovered the hiding place and demanded half of it.
Relatives and doctors only discovered she'd eaten them after carrying out tests.
Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, told reporters: "57 $100 bills were found and extracted by the orifice opened in the stomach.
"Some extra rolls (of money) were found in the intestine, which advanced to the colon."
Source and more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39806529/woman-eats-7000-life-savings-to-spite-cheating-husband