Pattaya Songtaew driver returns wallet containing 50,000 baht to American tourist

 

 

Image: Daily News

 

A Songtaew bus driver has returned a wallet containing 50,000 baht in cash, a passport and credit cards to an American tourist.

 

Driver Prawit Meepian, 48, said he found the wallet in his Songtaew on Tuesday and handed it in to Pattaya police in a hope that the owner could be traced.

 

Police managed to track down John Edward Hass, 68, who said he didn’t even realise his wallet missing until he arrived at hotel in Bangkok.

 

On Saturday Mr Meepian reunited Mr Hass with his wallet at a meeting at Pattaya police station.

 

Mr Hass said he had travelled to Thailand many times before and always enjoyed the hospitality of Thai people.

 

He thanked Mr Meepian for handing in his wallet.

 

There was no mention if Mr Hass gave Mr Meepian a reward for his good deed.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-06-10

50,000 baht? Party On!

Clone this man...

The amazing part of this story is it was handed to Pattaya police and it was still returned intact to the owner.

Was this the driverJT was on about? ?

39 minutes ago, mok199 said:

Clone this man...

In a first step the TAT is already cloning these kind of news.

Only the wallets stuffed full of cash seem to get lost and found . 

It’s so sad all these photo ops.  Everyone needs to be babied here with recognition that is part of their job, or just normal human actions 

Whats the news here, an American who carry 50k in his wallet, never heard of an ATM -card before.  Like he just came out of a time machine from the 1970's . 

 

 

Well would not be much of a story if the tourist had only 500 baht in the wallet.

Most if not all of the returned wallet stories are FAKE.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well would not be much of a story if the tourist had only 500 baht in the wallet.

Most if not all of the returned wallet stories are FAKE.

We'll never know for sure but I tend to agree. It is somewhat suspicious that these feel-good taxi/songthaew/motorcycle driver stories crop up regularly, usually immediately following a case of berserk driving, attacks on passengers with iron bars or ripoff fares - almost to the point where one might easily imagine that the TAT has a covert department devoted to whitewash propaganda. It is also surprising how such consistently absentminded tourists seem to carry wallets and bags stuffed with cash that is conveniently found by Thai workers of unimpeachable honesty. Amazing Thailand, one supposes.

21 hours ago, Redline said:

It’s so sad all these photo ops.  Everyone needs to be babied here with recognition that is part of their job, or just normal human actions 

yes thais must be acknowledged, survival of the loudest ...grandstanding is in their DNA

The old guy is going to mug him on the way out he has baht fever.

Unlike our Red-light running School Songthaew driver, there is always one who ruins the bad reputation of all the others