Cleaner finds case filled with foreign cash

HAT YAI: -- A cleaner working at Hat Yai Railway Station yesterday found a briefcase full of cash in foreign currencies and documents in a foreign language.

Banjit Boonsiri, 31, was sweeping at the station at about 1.30pm when she found the briefcase on a chair.

When she opened it, Banjit said, she discovered the briefcase was full of cash in various currencies – possibly from Middle Eastern countries.

She reported the find to the chief of the station, who handed the briefcase over to railway police.

“We are investigating the source of the money. We have not ruled out that the money was smuggled into Thailand for illegal purposes,” a railway police official said.

As of late yesterday, no one had contacted police to claim the money.

Meanwhile, Narathiwat Governor Pracha Terat told a press conference yesterday that police had confiscated a number of weapons found buried in an orchard in the province’s Rusoh district.

Acting on a tip-off, police raided the plantation and found 736 rounds of M16 rifle ammunition, 17 rifle shells and a drum full of other kinds of ammunition. Also yesterday, violence continued in Yala when two men on a motorcycle shot Charoen Pengpakit, a teacher at Baan Hu Por School in Raman district.

Charoen was shot in the back and was rushed to a nearby hospital.

--The Nation 2005-09-14

She finds a briefcase on a chair, and decides to open it, despite risks of it being a bomb.

It's full of cash, but she hands it to the police.

Not sure everybody would have done the same

"Foreign" is such a handy word in LOS

She finds a briefcase on a chair, and decides to open it, despite risks of it being a bomb.

It's full of cash, but she hands it to the police.

Not sure everybody would have done the same

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I would have kept it! Taken it home and figured out how to convert it into Thai Baht, without attracting too much attention. But then again that takes a certain degree of intelligence.

She finds a briefcase on a chair, and decides to open it, despite risks of it being a bomb.

It's full of cash, but she hands it to the police.

Not sure everybody would have done the same

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And why shouldnt she

Like the MAJORITY of Thai people she is probabally a normal hardworking lady with principals,integrity and above all honesty and would never dream of doing anything else but handing over something that does not belong to her to the "authoritys"

We can all learn something here.

I would also suggest that should their be no suspicion attached to the dosh and if perchance it goes unclaimed then it should be given back to the lady.....but somehow I rather doubt it.