Chinese Man’s Life Savings Eaten by Mice

In this financial climate, do you think the bank is the best place to keep your money, with its crap interest rate? Well, its safer than keeping your cash in your house if this Chinese man’s luck is anything to go by.

Last month, 80 year old Yang Lihong found his life savings, amounting to RMB 18,000 (over US$2,600), had been chewed to pieces by mice in his house in southeast China’s Zhejiang province.

Yang had been keeping all the notes in his stove and found them in pieces when he decide to retrieve some to buy rice. He worked as a guard for a local factory and had saved all the money after ten years.

Yang took his torn bills to his local Agricultural Bank and was able to have six thousand yuan replaced. To avoid the same thing happening again, Yang chose to place the remaining money in the bank.

From Crienglish Via WeirdChina on Twitter

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