Termites ruin million-baht cash in safe, woman says

A million for house payments??? wondering what job she has and how she can have so much money. As she regularly took some money she could have noticed that the insects were inside i believe...

Just think it´s a bit crazy. She don´t seem to be happy over the possibility to change. To me it looks like she almost has 400k of changeable notes in the image. Better with something than nothing, right?

Storing money like this requires it to be wrapped in plastic or in an air-tight zip plastic bag... noob error for stashing cash.

26 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Storing money like this requires it to be wrapped in plastic or in an air-tight zip plastic bag... noob error for stashing cash.

Should have watched the TV series Ozark. They had an insane system for storing their money laundering cash. I think they even had the kids help them. Too much bother for me. 🤣

We came home from travel one year only to have a full window drop out into the garden because the frame had been eaten. Exterminators are a good investment!

I've always preferred Bank of Sealy since the banks started offering that princely 0.0045%. No termites in bed!

strange ... first - what type of safe did she use? Not very 'safe' by the looks of it... hahahaha.

Second - her house must be infested by termites by the looks of things.... and she did not do anything?

Must be in up country of some humid filled moo baans

Edited July 20Jul 20 by NemoH

On 7/19/2026 at 5:33 AM, ikke1959 said:

A million for house payments??? wondering what job she has and how she can have so much money. As she regularly took some money she could have noticed that the insects were inside i believe...

I think you should contact her and ask all your interesting questions🤡

On 7/19/2026 at 6:53 AM, simon43 said:

Termites can chew up 'edibles' with no visible evidence from the outside. I climbed a sturdy wooden ladder in Laos a few years ago, only to have it 'disintegrate' under me, due to termites having had a feast of the internal wood. Several broken ribs, cracked cheekbone and relief at still actually being alive, after falling onto concrete from 4 metres up....... Bast ards!!

A few years ago when my Thai wife and I were asleep we awoke to loud crash. It was the befroom wardrobe. They had nibbled there way through one side support. I gusess were lucky because had it been the front, the wardrobe would have fallen down on our feet.

Turned into a confetti.

Safe my ass

the money had been stored in the safe for less than a month before...According to her post, a bank told her ...

On 7/19/2026 at 5:06 AM, Georgealbert said:

Weird. They have BANKS in Thailand with termite free safes, apparently.

That's news to her. ❓

16 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Why? The tone of your comment suggests that she shouldn't have savings or earnings, what's your basis for that?

He came to think that way because of the country he comes from there, they try to seize every cent you have. If a bank there has to process a transaction of 300 euros or more where the recipient is unknown, this must be reported to the authorities.

Next time try gold?

On 7/19/2026 at 5:06 AM, Georgealbert said:

According to her post, a bank told her that the damaged notes could be exchanged. However, she said the amount she would receive would not equal the original total value of the cash, as some notes were too far damaged and destroyed.

On 7/19/2026 at 5:06 AM, Georgealbert said:

even where an exchange is possible, it may not result in the full original value being recovered.

Now that's the bit I can't get my head around, if they accept that the damaged piece of paper you present them was indeed a 1000bt note, and presumably that means the serial number needs to be readable, how can they possibly offer less than the face value of the note? I would have expected any reimbursement to be on an "all or nothing" basis

Edited July 20Jul 20 by Bday Prang

Well that sucks. How did freaking termites get into their safe?

2 hours ago, Front Row said:

Next time try gold?

You haven't watched The Italian Job?

Nothing is safe (pun intended).

The termites were over heard saying "can you believe these dumb mofos left us all this food, and it is so rich in taste"....55555.

1 hour ago, giants49 said:

Well that sucks. How did freaking termites get into their safe?

Insects& Entomology

They walked in as usual.

4 hours ago, Front Row said:

Next time try gold?

She could make her mortgage repayments in gold?

3 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Now that's the bit I can't get my head around, if they accept that the damaged piece of paper you present them was indeed a 1000bt note, and presumably that means the serial number needs to be readable, how can they possibly offer less than the face value of the note? I would have expected any reimbursement to be on an "all or nothing" basis

Because some of the notes were destroyed and were not replaceable, some were so, on average, she gets less than she wanted as the bank rejected some of them.

1 hour ago, giants49 said:

Well that sucks. How did freaking termites get into their safe?

Maybe there were a couple on the notes she put into the safe, maybe some flew in when the door was open.

5 hours ago, parallelman said:

On 7/19/2026 at 6:53 AM, simon43 said:

Termites can chew up 'edibles' with no visible evidence from the outside. I climbed a sturdy wooden ladder in Laos a few years ago, only to have it 'disintegrate' under me, due to termites having had a feast of the internal wood. Several broken ribs, cracked cheekbone and relief at still actually being alive, after falling onto concrete from 4 metres up....... Bast ards!!

Never understood the usage of wooden ladders. I don't feel safe on metal ones let alone wood that can weather and like what happened to you, termites. Termites are bad here, and those who use wood for houses are asking for trouble. My English school friend had them eat a whole ceiling away in a classroom. Nasty creatures.