Flatbread faux pas: Elderly man in China pays RM3,550 for snacks worth RM3.20, forgets for 8 days, shocking social media

83-year-old typed in wrong number when making digital payment then disappeared for more than a week. Honest bakery boss launches search for customer, alerts police before elderly man returns and gets his money back. — SCMP

The plight of an elderly man in China who paid a bakery 5,555 yuan (RM3,550) for six flatbreads which should have cost him just five yuan (RM3.20) has shocked mainland social media.

An online stir was created when the owner of the bakery in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, Zhang Dayong, issued a search notice for the over-paying customer via several media outlets on Aug 27.