A man has been left unable to cash in over £5,000 of notes after his son ripped them to pieces.
Dad shocked after son rips over £5,000 of bank notes
The man known only as Mr Gao, from Qingdao City in China, was left shocked when he returned home from work and found his five-year-old son had discovered his stash of bank notes worth 50,000 RMB - which is roughly £5,583 - and decided to tear them to shreds during a harmless playtime.
If the torn notes - which he had borrowed from creditors for his business - weren't enough to put Mr Gao in a bad mood, his day went from bad to worse when he attempted to take the money to the bank only to find they wouldn't exchange it for new notes because it was ''broken''.
The bank told Mr Gao he would need to tape each note back together and bring it back to the bank before they would be able to make the exchange.
Luckily for his son, Mr Gao understands the boy is ''still young'', and doesn't blame him for his mistake.
According to the Metro newspaper, he said: ''I can't and won't blame my son. He's still young, so he didn't understand what he was doing.''
Mr Gao now has the task of piecing back together all 500 of the notes which were ripped by his son, and has said he won't stop working until all the notes are fixed.