Taxi driver returns Bt270,000 cash to Cambodian passenger

[snoop1130]

Taxi driver returns Bt270,000 cash to Cambodian passenger

By The Nation

 

 

A Bangkok taxi driver found cash worth Bt270,000 in Thai, Cambodian and US banknotes in a handbag at the weekend and handed it over to a radio station, which later managed to locate the Cambodian owner and return it to him.

 

The passenger, Op Simony Odum, 24, got the money back from the Traffic Police FM91 radio station in Lat Phrao district on Monday morning, and gave a cash reward to the taxi driver.

 

Rawee Thongbor, 42, said he had delivered several passengers on Sunday night, after which he found the bag inside his cab but was unsure which of them it belonged to.

 

He therefore contacted the radio station asking for help in locating the owner.

 

At 8pm, he had driven a man and two women from Lat Phrao to the Ratchaprarop area, and then picked up two Chinese passengers and drove them to a spot on a road along the Ram Indra-Art Narong expressway.

 

He later found the handbag in a small space between the front passenger seat and the door when he stopped to fill his tank with gas at 10pm.

 

Rawee said he had seen a man in each of the two groups of passengers carrying a handbag, but the bag that one of them had left behind did not contain any ID card or other identification document.

 

It did however contain baht banknotes, Cambodian riel notes and US dollar notes totalling the equivalent of some Bt270,000.

 

Rawee admitted that he had been tempted by the unexpected find and that his hands had trembled when he saw there was so much money, but his wife reminded him that he would go to jail if he used money found in such a way.

 

“I didn’t want trouble and I wanted the owner to get the money back. The owner may have been crying knowing the money had gone, so I contacted the radio station to find the owner,” he explained.

 

On getting his bag and all the cash back, the Cambodian owner said the money was for his aunt to have plastic surgery on her nose.

 

When he realised he had lost the bag, he filed a complaint with Phaya Thai police station on Sunday night.

 

The much-relieved Cambodian gave a Bt40,000 cash reward in the three currencies in gratitude to the taxi driver.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30348036

 

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[Henrik Andersen]

That's insane to have 270.000 in cash on  you why you need that? 

no credit card? 

Or is it dirty money? 

Something wrong here but nice taxi driver but did he use meter 555

[grumbleweed]

Once again The integrity of Thai taxi drivers shines through

Wonder how many muggings, assaults, rapes and scams that this little "stunt" will wipe off the charge sheet

 

 

[Ks45672]

#fakenews ?

[flyingtlger]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Rawee admitted that he had been tempted by the unexpected find and that his hands had trembled when he saw there was so much money, but his wife reminded him that he would go to jail if he used money found in such a way.

Good wife.....

[Darcula]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Rawee admitted that he had been tempted by the unexpected find and that his hands had trembled when he saw there was so much money, but his wife reminded him that he would go to jail if he used money found in such a way.

 

Good Somchai triumphs over evil Somchai. Well done.

 

[colinneil]

Meanwhile 20.000 taxi drivers refused to take passengers.

More than 5.000 taxi drivers driving without a license.

Many more high on drug, drunk but nothing gets mentioned, only BS about foreigners carrying crazy amounts of money.

When oh when is this stupid nonsense going to stop?

[Lupatria]

270.000, that would equal 1 baht for each cheater in the industry.

[Cereal]

Seems to me that is a lot of money for a nose job. But, getting 40,000 baht for a kind deed is pretty cool. That'll cover his mia noi's expenses for a while.

[Aussieroaming]

Good for him. Big Joke's nose will be twitching, trying to smell a Cambodian rat

[Ks45672]

1 hour ago, Cereal said:

Seems to me that is a lot of money for a nose job. But, getting 40,000 baht for a kind deed is pretty cool. That'll cover his mia noi's expenses for a while.

Most taxi drivers are not wealthy enough to maintain a Mia Noi lol

[Somchai Logic]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Meanwhile 20.000 taxi drivers refused to take passengers.

More than 5.000 taxi drivers driving without a license.

Many more high on drug, drunk but nothing gets mentioned, only BS about foreigners carrying crazy amounts of money.

When oh when is this stupid nonsense going to stop?

Yep, automatic cue Fake, knee-jerk, save-face story. 

P.S. your stats are all before 7am this morning 

[nkg]

On 6/18/2018 at 12:44 PM, snoop1130 said:

The much-relieved Cambodian gave a Bt40,000 cash reward in the three currencies in gratitude to the taxi driver. 

 

Well done sir. That's a proper reward.

 

[nausea]

You're a better man than me, Gunga Din.