Posted on 06/14/2013 9:54:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
CHINA -- A Chinese woman almost lost her life savings recently when termites invaded a wooden drawer in which she kept a plastic bag containing 400,000 yuan: the equivalent of $65,000 U.S. dollars. It was only after the woman decided to redecorate her house in Guandong Province that she noticed the termites had dined on her nest egg. According to the Guangzhou Daily, the money was given to the woman by her children.
A local bank generously scanned the remaining cash and was able to identity 340,000 yuan which means the termite's meal ultimately cost the woman roughly $9,786.
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What did one termite say to the other termite? “I’m not eating any of that money,it’s a little to rich for me.”
Did they tax him at 35%?
Actually not at all. Remember this was 1977 when we had Peace Officers and the laws (regulations?) were followed.
“The guy living next to my house was a Treasury agent and I took the ammo box to him. He took it to Washington, DC. where they weighed it or did something to the ashes and the victim received $200,000 in the mail sometime down the road.”
How did they know if the box was full of singles, tens or hundreds?
Infrared something or other on the ink. He told me. I’m dumb. Weighed, fabrics, infrared, I glazed over and said “Oh, OK.”
Mold does basically the same thing.
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