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Mama mia! It's all hugs and wais as "Aunty Porn" returns a 'million' to Italian

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bluesofa Ruby Member

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2 minutes ago, sitti said:

What's wrong with bunch of typical members here at TV? When someone does good thing for the other, they still bash.

I think if it was a one-off news report, then most people would believe it.

When we see this exact same scenario week-after-week, most readers tend to become sceptical about them being genuine.

 

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mauGR1 Ruby Member

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10 minutes ago, Cranky said:

True or BS is irrelevant; the reality is most will see it as a BS attempt to make us all believe the honesty is real

Honesty and dishonesty are both real, why should be hard to believe that some people are honest ?

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21 minutes ago, Cranky said:

True or BS is irrelevant; the reality is most will see it as a BS attempt to make us all believe the honesty is real

 

The feigned honesty is generally about as real as the Demi-God myth. Probably she checked out the contents of the bag first, and made some self-serving calculations.

 

 

 

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18 minutes ago, sitti said:

What's wrong with bunch of typical members here at TV? When someone does good thing for the other, they still bash.

Maybe some think a good deed a week slendered over all media doesn't count in an attempt to make this country look like the world hub of honesty.

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11 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

Honesty and dishonesty are both real, why should be hard to believe that some people are honest ?

I have no problem thinking that many folk are honest. What I have a problem with is assuming that all Thais are honest, and that's because it goes against my personal experience.

 

The reality that Thais choose to create for themselves isn't my responsibility or my problem. And fixing it isn't my responsibility or problem either. Why do I think that? hard experience as recently as yesterday.

 

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2 minutes ago, HalfLight said:

I have no problem thinking that many folk are honest. What I have a problem with is assuming that all Thais are honest, and that's because it goes against my personal experience.

 

The reality that Thais choose to create for themselves isn't my responsibility or my problem. And fixing it isn't my responsibility or problem either. Why do I think that? hard experience as recently as yesterday.

 

Welcome to the club!

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25 minutes ago, sitti said:

What's wrong with bunch of typical members here at TV? When someone does good thing for the other, they still bash.

Doing something good with an ulterior profit motive isn't the act of a good Samaritan. Nor even of a civilised person.

 

You might reasonably ask why so many of your peers have a dismal view of Thais and their honesty. Here let me give you a clue: it's either because the majority of them are honest, or it isn't.

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, HalfLight said:

I have no problem thinking that many folk are honest. What I have a problem with is assuming that all Thais are honest, and that's because it goes against my personal experience.

 

The reality that Thais choose to create for themselves isn't my responsibility or my problem. And fixing it isn't my responsibility or problem either. Why do I think that? hard experience as recently as yesterday.

 

Who said that all Thais are honest ?

I've had some bad experience too, it goes down to different situations and factors, sometimes it's just misunderstanding, sometimes it's bad luck.

If i forgot a bag full of money, in any country i would feel very lucky to get it back with nothing missing.

 

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5 hours ago, webfact said:

They screamed in their opening paragraphs that "Aunty Porn" - a food seller in Chumpon - had returned a million baht to an Italian tourist. 

 

In reality the black bag she found in her restaurant by the train station in the southern Thai city contained euros and dollars amounting to 20,000 baht. But there was a Thai bank book with a deposit in excess of a million.

Reminds me of when I was traveling in the US, and a guy forgot his gloves in the train. I pointed it out to him, he thanked me, and after a short conversation he appeared to be a government employee working at the US bullion depository ("Fort Knox"). So basically I returned 310 billion USD that day, but I never got the newspaper coverage this lady got.

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4 hours ago, BestB said:

One thing all Italians have in common and that is stingy beyond reason.

 

she returned his life back to him and all tight a$$ gave her is 1000 baht .

 

pathetic in all honesty

If you think Italians are stingy, I take it you haven't met a Dutch person yet ????

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1 hour ago, sitti said:

What's wrong with bunch of typical members here at TV? When someone does good thing for the other, they still bash.

But the guy still was a cheap charlie

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5 hours ago, mauGR1 said:
5 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

In fairness to 'em whilst some may have succumbed to temptation to keep it there are Thai's who have a sense of honesty and duty to return something that does not being to them .. I had my passport returned by a beach lounger renter after it dropped out of my shorts side pocket one afternoon unbeknown to me and though I hadnt gone far from her pitch she came running after me to return it .. and though there is no immediate monetary worth to it , it is a real pain in the butt having to report and get a replacement .. 

Years ago, one waiter run behind me for 200 meters from the restaurant where i've been eating, to return my forgotten camera.

I wanted to give him 500 B. , but he refused the tip.

 

a thai pub employee chased after me in the street also because I assumed I had left more than enough cash to cover consumable and tip. i was short 3 (three) baht as they tack on various taxes and service charge.

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16 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:
1 hour ago, sitti said:

What's wrong with bunch of typical members here at TV? When someone does good thing for the other, they still bash.

But the guy still was a cheap charlie

He probably felt the need to balance for all the mugs ( me too ) who have lost millions while dealing with Thai women :whistling:

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5 hours ago, DavisH said:

If he left 500 baht on the table she would have pocketed it -only a little bad karma. Giving back 20K + all that other stuff = big karma. Many believe pinching that much would bring them bad luck in the future. 

 

She should have got more than a lousy 1000 baht though. 

Giving back 20K + all that other stuff = big karma. Many believe pinching that much would bring them bad luck in the future. 

 

Exactly right.  A  good deed is it's own reward.  Any cash reward is a bonus. 

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59 minutes ago, wolf81 said:

If you think Italians are stingy, I take it you haven't met a Dutch person yet ????

According to my knowledge and experience the Brits are the stingiest of all the above mentioned ????????‍♂️

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1 hour ago, wolf81 said:

If you think Italians are stingy, I take it you haven't met a Dutch person yet ????

Dutch stand no chance , sorry but Italians take the cake. I am yet to meet an Italian who was not a tight a$$. 

 

Use to have a landlord also Italian , 78 years old, owned 8-9 houses. In house I rented roof collapsed, was sleeping under the stars for 7 weeks because all he was willing to pay was 400 baht labor per day for someone to come fix it. 

 

Try to beat that tighta$$ness????

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26 minutes ago, shackleton said:

This has to stop I have tears of gratitude every time I read about about the Thai people returning tourists money ect 

hopefully a taxi story wont happen in the coming days as running out of paper tissues 

Try a  bucket of  sawdust,  I find that helps

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not sure why some posters think that the equivalent of 20,000 baht is a lot of money to be carrying around especially as a tourist and maybe he went through or was planning to go through a border at some point.

why wouldn't he be able to open a thai account? yes, foreign tourists can still open bank accounts despite what some may experience, that's another old and long boring thread altogether. (as a side note, IMO certain 'helpers' that have sprung up offering services to open accounts for tourists for around 5,000 baht are part of the problem as they just make it harder for people to do it themselves as the bank staff will be getting used to their kick backs in the same way some immigration offices do.

here have a couple of thousand baht to do the job you are supposed to do anyway.

and perhaps there was a million in his account as he has or plans to do a retirement visa. if he is already retired and living here perhaps he is a tourist visiting the south hence why he was at chumphon train station and hence why he called himself a tourist.

1000 baht, tight bugger

 

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