Shop owner fined 68,000 yuan, pays 10,000 in coins,Yunnan Adventure Travel

Shop owner fined 68,000 yuan, pays 10,000 in coins

he bags was 10,000 yuan (US$1,634), entirely in jiao (角). After visiting several banks throughout the city, all of which refused to count the money, the Wus finally found one where staff were willing to exchange their coins for paper notes. Eighteen tellers at ICBC spent an entire work day counting and sorting the change into paper wrappers. At the end of the day they had made it half way through the stack of coins. This story raises two intriguing questions not answered in online reports. Namely, where did the noodle shop owner come up with 100,000 one jiao coins and why do Kunming banks not possess automated change counting machines? Perhaps unsurprisingly, this episode is not without precedent. Five years ago in Jiangsu province a man was paid 68,000 yuan (US$11,000) for work related compensation in coins weighing nearly 400 kilograms. The incident in Kunming is another in a long line of bizarre news stories of people behaving badly in Yunnan over the past few years. In addition to numerous cases of blatant disregard for food safety standards, a government official was recently sent to prison for assaulting an airport kiosk. Perhaps more infamously, in 2011 a frustrated commuter drove his car over a busy pedestrian bridge to escape a traffic jam.

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