ATM机内钞票全成碎片，元凶竟然是它

GUWAHATI, India – When bank technicians in India were finally summoned to investigate why an ATM (automated teller machine) had not been working for days, they began to smell a rat.

当印度古瓦哈蒂市的银行技术人员终于被召来调查为什么自动取款机好几天没有工作时，他们闻到了死老鼠的味道。

What they found inside the ATM was almost $18,000 worth of shredded Indian rupee notes and one dead rodent that had somehow eluded the machine’s security camera for its next and last, meal, a State Bank of India (SBI) official said on Thursday.

印度国家银行(SBI)的一位员工周四说，他们在自动取款机里发现了价值近1.8万美元的印度碎卢比纸币，以及一只啮齿动物尸体。这只老鼠不知何故躲过了机器监控摄像头，享用了“最后的大餐”。

“The ATM was out of order for a few days and when our technicians opened the kiosk we were shocked to find shredded notes and a dead rat,” said Chandan Sharma, SBI branch manager in the town of Tinsukia in the northeastern state of Assam.

印度阿萨姆邦东北部丁苏基亚镇SBI支行经理查尚.夏尔马说:“这台自动取款机出故障有几天了，我们的技术人员打开它时，惊讶地发现了咬碎的钞票和一只死老鼠。”

“We have started an investigation into this rare incident and will take measures to prevent a recurrence.”

“我们已经着手调查这一罕见事件，并将采取措施防止再次发生。”

SBI is India’s largest bank with more than 50,000 ATMs spread across the country. Most ATMs in India have a closed-circuit camera installed for enhanced security.

SBI银行是印度最大的银行，在全国拥有5万多台自动取款机。印度大多数自动取款机都会安装闭路摄像头，以提高安全性。

But an inspection of the camera footage at the ATM in Tinsukia turned up no rat entering it, Sharma said. Of the 2.9 million rupees ($42,685) in the ATM, 1.7 million rupees ($25,022) were recovered intact.

夏尔马说，然而查看丁苏基亚镇这台自动取款机的摄像画面时，没有发现有老鼠进入。这台自动取款机存放的290万卢比(合42685美元)中，有170万卢比(合25022美元)完好无损。

But banknotes worth 1.2 million rupees ($17,662) were destroyed. Photographs taken by a local reporter and reviewed by Reuters after the ATM was opened showed fragments of gray and purple colored notes of 500- and 2000-rupee denominations.

但是价值120万卢比(17662美元)的纸币被毁了。自动取款机打开后当地记者拍摄到的照片以及路透社看到的照片显示了500卢比和2000卢比面额的灰紫色钞票碎片。