Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist

 

Image: Daily News

 

A tourist from the Netherlands had good reason to thank a maid from Myanmar at his hotel on Koh Samui yesterday.

 

Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. 

 

Sawee found the green bag under some stairs - it contained Aussie dollars to the tune of 280,000 baht - several years wages for a maid. 

 

Police were called to the Ark Bar Hotel in Chaweng and CCTV was checked before Alexander Joseph, 31, was confirmed as the rightful owner.

 

He gave the honest maid $100 as a reward. 

 

Daily News praised the maid for helping the tourist image of Thailand.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they.  No racism in Thailand, is there? 

 

30 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. 

Not just the Thais eh? Who would have thunk it.

Good deed. Now the Dutch can afford to buy himself some decent clothes....

5 minutes ago, Just1Voice said:

They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they.  No racism in Thailand, is there? 

 

The language is still called Burmese. Then again, who are we to dictate how the Thais refer to their neighbours?!

 

Are you one of these Westerners who sees "racism" everywhere?!

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist

I can see a defamation suit coming from a group of Thai taxi drivers, concerned about them slipping down the honesty ratings on the 'returned tourists property' page.

 

 

very honest maid and great to see . . . or maybe she knew there was cctv everywhere and that she couldn't get away with it . . . cynical but likely

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Who would have thunk it.

Repeat that in English, please.

1 minute ago, Aachen said:

2 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Who would have thunk it.

Repeat that in English, please.

Seams rite tome.

 

3 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they.  No racism in Thailand, is there? 

 

So, what is more racist with calling someone Burmese, instead of a person from Myanmar? You totally lost me there. What is it you know, that many others don´t?

 

 

However, regarding the news. It´s a really lucky guy, at the same time as dumb as a nutshell. How can he just lose 11K of Australian dollars? Unfathomable! Thumbs up for the maid, though. Tumbs down again for the australian guy, who only gave 100 dollar as reward. Disgusting!

Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed.

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. 

37 minutes ago, Naroge said:

Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed.

 $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less  than 1% , I get a better reward from my credit card.

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist

I find the humble coming from Myanmar to be on par Thais.  They do not follow Thais nor need they do so.   Tho people from both countries have governments worthy of shame. 

'Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes.'

 

I'm not sure they are any more honest than any other nationality. 

22 minutes ago, sirineou said:

 $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less  than 1% I get a better reward from my credit card.

So you would have given her how much?

Repeat that in English, please.

"Ooo da thunk it" (almost cokney slang) or
"who would of thought it possible"

5 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they.  No racism in Thailand, is there? 

 

 

I have several friends from Myanmar including one medical doctor, two accountants and a sales manager. All refer to them self as Burmese.

3 hours ago, Naroge said:

Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed.

Decent? Yeah, I guess it´s better than nothing as you say. There is a rule in Thailand, though. 10% should be given to the one that finds it, but as always it´s not enforced or in use.
My opinion is that the guy should have been given her at least 500. It must be better to have 10500 than nothing, right? That would have been decent.

2 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

So you would have given her how much?

I guess, read above is to be used. On the other hand, you just think it´s only a maid, so never mind, right?

Carrying around all that dough... must be trying to score something or planning on getting a lot of massages!

very very nice...

7 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

The language is still called Burmese. Then again, who are we to dictate how the Thais refer to their neighbours?!

 

Are you one of these Westerners who sees "racism" everywhere?!

You are so right. And Myanmar is the  name of the country imposed by the Burmese Junta, before that it was called Burma. 

7 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Good deed. Now the Dutch can afford to buy himself some decent clothes....

The reward was typically Dutch cheap lol

3 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

So you would have given her how much?

 To be honest, I don't know, I guess it all depends on the financial situation I find myself at the time.  If I needed the money for my mom's life saving surgery , very litle , apologise ,and explain.

If I needed for a drunken binger in Pattaya I would be more generous, (end everything in between) after all I would have had zero if she had kept it. 

I don't know  this person's situation and I am not being critical to him, I am not critical to you either I don't know you and I don't know your situation either,, am being critical to callin a $100 reward "decent".  

6 hours ago, sirineou said:

 $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less  than 1% , I get a better reward from my credit card.

In other words he was tighter than a fishes <deleted>

6 minutes ago, Aussieroaming said:

In other words he was tighter than a fishes <deleted>

That's funny! LOL

in the US we say "tighter than a crabs ass"  In the UK I hear ducks are involved .But I haven't heard anything about  Aquaman's sphincter  yet LOL 

She probably thought that it was fake money from Cambodia and didnt want to exchange it 

See this is what you get from 220 baht atm-fee's for foreigners only.