News Forum - Delivery driver finds huge stash of Thai, Laos and Japanese banknotes under a tree

[Thaiger]

A delivery driver stumbled across a stash of Thai, Japanese, and Laos banknotes scattered beneath a tree in Udon Thani city centre, northeast Thailand, this morning. The cash – amounting to over 500,000 baht – is suspected to be fake. The driver, 43 year old Somsak Sirikhan, was sitting waiting for a job with five or six other rides. He said he backed out on his motorbike to go and buy a coffee when he spotted the cash, scattered underneath a mahogany tree near Ban Mak Kaeng School on Sri Suk Road. Somsak said he was really shocked so he […]

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[palooka]

Fishy smell on this report.

[Faz]

Maybe a branch of Superrich foreign currency exchange. 

[JMJM]

These misleading headlines only make me not want to click in the future.  I mean, how can you legitimately write "finds huge stash of ... banknotes" and have the whole point of the article being that the are "suspected to be fake".  You might as well write a headline, "Unicorn skewers leprechaun" and then in the article write, "Neither of which really exists."  

[Guest1]

My take: 

Now not only fake 1000 Baht bills, now the 100s will find the way much easier into the pockets and registers

[MrStretch]

500,000 baht?  Sure, Mr. Policeman, I believe you when you say they are fake.  Sure.

[Dedinbed]

who said money don't grow on tree's ..