webfact Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Taxi driver returns wallet to Japanese touristBy Coconuts BangkokPhoto: MThaiBANGKOK: -- An army lieutenant who took up a second job as a taxi driver returned a Japanese man’s wallet, who was nice enough to send his tour agent to pick it up today.Punnapa Fuangfoo, representative of Tour Japan travel agency, met with Lt. Thanorm Khetsinboon today at the JS100 radio station to retrieve the wallet of Jun Kuwaki, which contained about THB21,000 in Japanese yen.Thanorm said he picked up a Kuwaki on Ratchada Road and dropped him off in Soi Sukhumvit 23 on Friday before discovering his wallet, which contained identification, under the seat.Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/12/12/taxi-driver-returns-wallet-japanese-tourist-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-12-12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 "Thanorm then contacted both JS100 radio and Japanese Embassy in a heroic move to return the wallet." Heroic? Good on him, but seriously, heroic. Coconuts sarcasm in its stories seems to be increasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gsxrnz Posted December 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2014 Don't they usually publish these "taxi driver returns wallet" stories every 3rd Monday? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesetat2013 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Are these events being scripted by the TAT? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Right on schedule....... I often thought it would be amusing to take 100 wallets with a some cash in them and clear ID, and drop them in 100 taxis. How many do you think would come back? The last time I forgot my mobile phone in a taxi, I called my number and the taxi driver ransomed my phone back to me.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePai Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 So he's a serving member of the Thai army and moonlights as a taxi driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMA_FARANG Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Are these events being scripted by the TAT? ----------- ------------- For your information..... I have personally had my lost wallet, passport, an airline ticket, and $300 dollars in U.S cash returned by a Thai taxi driver when I mistakenly left it in his taxi. That was quite a few years ago now, but I can personally attest to the fact that it does indeed happen. When he found my valuables, he actually drove to the guesthouse where I was staying (where he had dropped me off earlier) and asked the guesthouse owner to give it to me. He never asked me, nor would he accept, a reward for returning it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Don't they usually publish these "taxi driver returns wallet" stories every 3rd Monday? Usually after a spate of bad publicly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I see, it is a good thing, that he did that. What I don't get: why and how is this news- worthy? He returned a wallet! Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news! People do that stuff and it is nice...but only on a very slow news- day and only under outstanding circumstances, is this news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poostick Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I wonder how many of you Thai bashing sour moaners would return a wallet full of cash? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taony Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My taxi driver threw a paving stone at me this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doremifasol Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Years a go got back from two different taxi drivers my mobile phone and my camera. There are honest people in Thailand too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Still waiting for my guitar to be returned to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My taxi driver threw a paving stone at me this morning. Why was that then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taony Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I slammed the door shut after he refused to take me. Not sure that requires a death sentence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commerce Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My taxi driver threw a paving stone at me this morning. Why was that then? He remembered to take his wallet with him when he got out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) I wonder how many of you Thai bashing sour moaners would return a wallet full of cash? If my family was starving, I would keep the wallet. If I was flush with cash, I would return the wallet. Morality always has a certain dependence on financial circumstances.... Actually Thailand did not do that bad in the famous Readers Digest Lost Wallet test. Gotta love Norway... :-) http://www.xys.org/forum/db/4/155/242.html Percentage of lost wallets returned per country: (city results are at the end of the post) ------------------------------------------------- Norway 100% Denmark 100% Singapore 90% New Zealand 83% Finland 80% Scotland 80% Australia 70% Japan 70% South Korea 70% Spain 70% Austria 70% Sweden 70% U.S. 67% England 67% India 65% Canada 64% France 60% Brazil 60% Netherlands 60% Thailand 55% Belgium 50% Taiwan 50% Malaysia 50% Germany 45% Portugal 45% Argentina 44% Russia 43% Philippines 40% Wales 40% Italy 35% Switzerland 35% China (Hong Kong): 30% Mexico 21% Edited December 12, 2014 by EyesWideOpen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsanddogs Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Taxi drivers must be really corrupt if this sort of things makes news. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taony Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) I have a question, not sure if anyone knows. A few times when I've been refused by a drive they said that their "card" was broken or out of money or something like that, while pointing at something under the steering wheel. That was the excuse for not going. Anyone know what that is? But really if its broken or about to expire why would they stop? Or at least turn off the "available" light and just pull up to someone and say "I can take you a short distance" edit: maybe its not card they are saying? Gas? Edited December 12, 2014 by taony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I see, it is a good thing, that he did that. What I don't get: why and how is this news- worthy? He returned a wallet! Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news! People do that stuff and it is nice...but only on a very slow news- day and only under outstanding circumstances, is this news! "Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news!" How do you know that? If the incidents are not reported then you would not know that they happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My taxi driver threw a paving stone at me this morning. Maybe you deserved it. Did you report him to the police if that really happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 (edited) I see, it is a good thing, that he did that. What I don't get: why and how is this news- worthy? He returned a wallet! Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news! People do that stuff and it is nice...but only on a very slow news- day and only under outstanding circumstances, is this news! "Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news!" How do you know that? If the incidents are not reported then you would not know that they happened. Oh, so clever! If a tree falls in the forest and nobody sees it... Edited December 12, 2014 by DM07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGD Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I see, it is a good thing, that he did that. What I don't get: why and how is this news- worthy? He returned a wallet! Where I come from, people do that everyday and it will not end up as headline- news! People do that stuff and it is nice...but only on a very slow news- day and only under outstanding circumstances, is this news! But in LOS, where so much else is thievery and robbery, an instance of a Thai doing the right thing becomes newsworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Are these events being scripted by the TAT? One certainly has to wonder, I can't recall these events happening with such regularity several years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Still waiting for my guitar to be returned to me. nO STRINGS ATTACHED OF COURSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Still waiting for my guitar to be returned to me. No strings attached of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enufsaid Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Taxi driver did try to return the body that a young Thai man left in his boot not so long ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokay Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Good job. Pat on the back. But honestly, so few do good deeds here (or anywhere for that matter) that it makes news when someone returns a wallet. That is sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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