Unfortunate Accident

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Perhaps we should set up a fund for this poor woman...

http://news.excite.com/news/r/000104/08/odd-bug

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Fear of the Y2K bug also proved expensive for a Thai street food vendor, police said.

Kieuthong Attaparb was so concerned Y2K computer problems might swallow her savings that she withdrew 100,000 baht ($2,700) from a bank in Rayong, 210 km (130 miles) southeast of Bangkok, and kept it at home over the millennium weekend.

Sunday morning her house burned down and her savings went up in smoke.

Thai banks have so far reported no Y2K problems.

-- joe riley (jriley@hotmail.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

Well, sometimes its foolishness to try and be the odd one out. When no one else did it, why should she have done that. The situation i agree would have been a whole lot different if the Y2K bug had struck the bank.

All i can offer is sympathy.

-- Tarun Sainanee (tarun011@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.


You're kidding, right?

-- (I'm@pol.ly), January 04, 2000.

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