A Chinese family ended up in hot water after they tricked an ambulance crew into taking seriously ill man to the bank so that his password could be reset and his family could access the money.
The man's wife Li, 65, had been using the bank account while critically ill Xu Wanfan, 75, was in a hospital in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in the intensive care ward.
But she forgot the password and after typing it in three times incorrectly the account was locked - and the bank refused to unlock it unless the man himself turned up to sign to say that it was okay.
Because he was too ill to take a taxi the family told the hospital that they wanted to take him home to die and arranged for him to be moved in an ambulance, but once they passed the bank they asked the ambulance screw to stop and he was wheeled into the bank on a stretcher to arrange for the passwords to be reset.
Once back in the ambulance, the family said they had changed their mind and asked the ambulance crew to take the sick man back to hospital.
The hospital is now considering charging the family for the improper use of the ambulance but the family say the bank should pay the cost of treating them in such a bad way and refusing access to the man's pension fund which was used to pay the rest of the family bills.
Li said: "We didn't even have enough money to pay the rent or buy food, what else are we to do?"
- Orange News
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