Pattaya: Thai man's car - and ONE MILLION baht in cash - goes up in flames

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Picture: Sanook

 

Fire services and police were called to the area near Makro on Sukhumvit Road, South Pattaya at lunchtime yesterday when a car burst into flames in the middle of the road.

 

Jirayut, 24, said he noticed smoke and stopped. He tried to retrieve a bag containing his phone and one million baht in cash as flames quickly took hold.

 

Earlier he had left his home in Chaiyaphreuk Road heading for the bank to deposit the money. 

 

Firemen took ten minutes to bring the blaze under control but by then the car - and the cash - was almost completely destroyed. 

 

Sanook said they felt sorry for him in their headline. 

 

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[pixelaoffy]

Well well.  Proof of the worthlessness of Thai paperbaht

[jacko45k]

Struggling to believe this completely!

[Peterw42]

I'm pretty sure if you looked up insurance fraud in the dictionary, it would have this story.

 

 

[anchadian]

And where did he obtain 1m baht in cash?

 

I believe there's more to this story.

[thequietman]

15 minutes ago, anchadian said:

And where did he obtain 1m baht in cash?

 

I believe there's more to this story.

A dead friend gave it to him. ????

[keith101]

Does he smoke and did he try to through the butt out the window only to have it go into the back seat ?

[colinneil]

Jackanory, jackanory, tell me a story, what a load of <deleted>, a hell of a very fast fire, if he could not retrieve his bag.

Anybody can say i had a million in the bag after it is destroyed.

[Orinoco]

Pants on fire.

[VocalNeal]

I had all the money from the farmer's cooperative under the seat of my mocy. I only went into the 7-Eleven to buy some cigarettes and when I came out the money was gone.

 

Same story accept he was driving a car.

[fangless]

I wonder how large and heavy a bag would be to hold 1Million Baht.

[mahjongguy]

24 minutes ago, fangless said:

I wonder how large and heavy a bag would be to hold 1Million Baht.

The cash would stack up to about 12 centimeters. Easy to to hold in one hand. So, pretty much any old plastic bag big enough to hold a large Chang.

[NIGEPERRIN]

Hope he was wearing his mask

[mr_lob]

When i first read the headline, i thought his occupation must be in law enforcement...

[brucegoniners]

Try telling that to your insurance company, lol

[paulikens]

would insurance cover it? and he's thai so i doubt he even has insurance 

[sherwood]

5 hours ago, mahjongguy said:

The cash would stack up to about 12 centimeters. Easy to to hold in one hand. So, pretty much any old plastic bag big enough to hold a large Chang.

You have never had 1 mil baht cash in your hand have you. 555

[thequietman]

6 hours ago, colinneil said:

Anybody can say i had a million in the bag after it is destroyed.

Yep, funny how it wasn't 900K or 945K - But 1 million on the button. ????

[mahjongguy]

46 minutes ago, sherwood said:

You have never had 1 mil baht cash in your hand have you. 555

The most I ever held in my hand at one time was 600,000 baht when I bought a used Honda Jazz. Otherwise I try never to carry big cash. Ya never know, my car might burn up.

 

But a few times over the years I have carried a wrapped 100,000 and it seems to me that was about 1.2cm, thus 12cm for a mil. 

 

So why the laugh? Does 12cm seem too short? Too tall?

[pixelaoffy]

6 minutes ago, mahjongguy said:

The most I ever held in my hand at one time was 600,000 baht when I bought a used Honda Jazz. Otherwise I try never to carry big cash. Ya never know, my car might burn up.

 

But a few times over the years I have carried a wrapped 100,000 and it seems to me that was about 1.2cm, thus 12cm for a mil. 

 

So why the laugh? Does 12cm seem too short? Too tall?

600k for a used Honda jazz? Wow someone saw you coming 

[mahjongguy]

1 hour ago, pixelaoffy said:

600k for a used Honda jazz? Wow someone saw you coming 

I can tell you've never driven one.

[pixelaoffy]

48 minutes ago, mahjongguy said:

I can tell you've never driven one.

Don't have to drive one to know what brand new price is 2021 

[mahjongguy]

5 minutes ago, pixelaoffy said:

Don't have to drive one to know what brand new price is 2021 

That purchase was in 2008 for a 2007 model with extras like leather seats, remote locks, passenger airbag, and more. Not to mention very low mileage. Loved that car but after several years things changed and I needed a highway car.

 

[Susco]

3 hours ago, mahjongguy said:

But a few times over the years I have carried a wrapped 100,000 and it seems to me that was about 1.2cm, thus 12cm for a mil. 

 

Lot of envy shown in this thread, probably because most of them have never owned 1 million Baht, other than in debt.

 

If you claim that 100.000 Baht staple is only 1.2 cm high, then I doubt you have ever seen 100K together

 

I just measured it for you with a digital caliper, and a staple of 100 x 1000 Baht notes = approximately 15 cm, depending on how hard you press the caliper

[BritManToo]

11 minutes ago, Susco said:

Lot of envy shown in this thread, probably because most of them have never owned 1 million Baht, other than in debt.

 

If you claim that 100.000 Baht staple is only 1.2 cm high, then I doubt you have ever seen 100K together

 

I just measured it for you with a digital caliper, and a staple of 100 x 1000 Baht notes = approximately 15 cm, depending on how hard you press the caliper

There's a difference between owning 1Mbht, and carrying around 1Mbht in notes.

I did have 100,000gbp in my hand (mostly 20s) when I emptied my UK bank account to move out here.

And that certainly didn't seem all that big a package.

Edited May 5, 2021 by BritManToo

[Susco]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

There's a difference between owning 1Mbht, and carrying around 1Mbht in notes.

I did have 100,000gbp in my hand when I emptied my UK bank account to move out here.

And that certainly didn't seem all that big a package.

 

I don't know the thickness of Gbp notes, but I just measured a 100K staple of Thai bank notes, and I consider a digital caliper pretty accurate

[jackdd]

22 minutes ago, Susco said:

I just measured it for you with a digital caliper, and a staple of 100 x 1000 Baht notes = approximately 15 cm, depending on how hard you press the caliper

Do you mean 1.5cm? If it's 15cm there is something very odd with your notes.

[Susco]

1 minute ago, jackdd said:

Do you mean 1.5cm? If it's 15cm there is something very odd with your notes.

 

LOL, you are correct, I mistook the mm for cm.

 

Apologies

[baansgr]

10 hours ago, fangless said:

I wonder how large and heavy a bag would be to hold 1Million Baht.

Small handbag size,  no more than 2lbs

Edited May 5, 2021 by baansgr

[roger101]

If this happened yesterday (4/5/21) I wonder what bank he was taken it to.