Kind cabbie drives two hours from Pattaya to Bangkok to return passenger's iPhone

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Kind cabbie drives two hours from Pattaya to Bangkok to return passenger's iPhone
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- While we’re all familiar with the bad behavior of taxi drivers, here’s a feel-good story to show us that not all taxi drivers are bad.

A Pattaya taxi driver made a Scottish man's birthday even more special when he drove two hours to his hotel in Bangkok to return his forgotten iPhone.

Our reader Fraser Morton thought he was never going to get his iPhone back when he left it in a taxi on Nov. 14, but the former Bangkok resident received a surprising gift of kindness on his birthday four days later when the driver, Isrin, showed up at his hotel.

"On my birthday on Wednesday just before midnight, he showed up at my hotel to return my phone. He's a badass good guy," Fraser told Coconuts today.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2015/11/23/kind-cabbie-drives-two-hours-pattaya-bangkok-return-passengers-iphone


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-11-23

[djayz]

Finally a story with a good ending. Fair play to the taxi driver and the iPhone owner for rewarding the taxi driver.

[Bluespunk]

Good man.

[Gordy Gambino]

2k reward was spot on

[Beng]

Just before midnight ??

[anto]

This wont sit lightly with the thousands of Thai bashers on this forum .They are very likely to get heart seizure.

[chainarong]

This wont sit lightly with the thousands of Thai bashers on this forum .They are very likely to get heart seizure.

Credit where credit's due and most of your so called Thai bashers are just slinging shi!!t and having a grand time in Thailand and wouldn't have it any other way.

[from the home of CC]

nice one cabbie

[Bluespunk]

This wont sit lightly with the thousands of Thai bashers on this forum .They are very likely to get heart seizure.

But will be taken as an opportunity to derail a topic by the paranoids who see any and all criticism as bashing.

Sometimes it is bashing, fair enough you are correct there. However at times it is deserved and it is sticking your head in the sand not to see this.

Edited November 23, 2015 by Bluespunk

[Vacuum]

Just before midnight ??

Nightshift...? He said he works in Bangkok.

[metisdead]

An inflammatory post has been removed.

[anto]

>>Sometimes it is bashing,<<...about 70% aprox .

[Bluespunk]

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Mark Twain

[Ks45672]

Maybe mbk were unable to unlock it..... So the taxi driver returned it 4 days later......

Yes, I said that!

[DrTuner]

Maybe mbk were unable to unlock it..... So the taxi driver returned it 4 days later......

Yes, I said that!

Meh. He would just have tossed it in the trash if that was the case. He just dropped it off at the guys hotel, since he was probably back in BKK and had it with him. Well done.

[Bluespunk]

Maybe mbk were unable to unlock it..... So the taxi driver returned it 4 days later......

Yes, I said that!

We can see that, the question is why you felt the need to.

[Happy Grumpy]

Probably couldn't be unlocked.

[DM07]

This time of the month, again?

[MRDave]

2k reward was spot on

Yes though his Scottish citizenship will be revoked, and his passport taken away for going against the Scottish Constitution.

[thrilled]

I had A songthew driver do that to me at Koh Phangan.He was surprised when I gave him about 25% reward to what the phone was worth.I believe if it was me I would have given him at least A days wages.I hope the cabbie was well rewarded it was well worth it.

[champken]

There seem an awful lot of these good guy taxi drivers around in Thailand.

[cockatoowho]

There seem an awful lot of these good guy taxi drivers around in Thailand.

Yeah! About as many as the paranoid hypocrites posting on this forum trying to gloss over the fact that there is more wrong than right with this country and its people.

[jaywalker]

That was quite nice of him.

[steven100]

hope he didn't do it only to get the reward .............

Edited November 24, 2015 by steven100

[alfalfa19]

excellent. 2K is exactly what i was thinking.

[Skeptic7]

hope he didn't do it only to get the reward .............

Of course it's the only reason, but I totally get that and don't have a problem with it.

Edited November 24, 2015 by Skeptic7

[lovelomsak]

the thing about decent people like this cabbie is they feel doing the right thing is its own reward,by making the world a better place to live.

[chrisinth]

There seem an awful lot of these good guy taxi drivers around in Thailand.

There are as many good as there are bad.

But the percentages don't work out like that as the media only reports on the good or the bad. Average, honest drivers don't normally get a mention..........................

[SantiSuk]

There seem an awful lot of these good guy taxi drivers around in Thailand.

I got my 'man-bag' - my wallet with 30k baht, all my ATM and credit cards two mobile phones and a compact camera plus all my Isaan house/Bangkok appt/car keys back when I left them in a Bangkok taxi 3 years ago.

If 'seem' implies some element of skepticism on your part champken, then I don't share it needless to say!!

I tipped him 15k baht - the prospect of renewing all those cards and keys had become unbearable in the intervening three hours. Not trying to brag - the money had already been written off in my mind as the last of my worries. I was ecstatic to get it all back

I didn't feature on Cocunuts, but I was invited to go on air on the cabbies radio station with my new-found hero. Strange thing about it was he had dumped me at a BTS five minutes after accepting me as a fare, because he realised he was running out of LPG refuelling options going along Sukhumvit into town. That's why I had jumped out in a huff cursing im under my breath without checking for my stuff!

Long live Bangkok's Isaan cabbies I say

If you lose something in a taxi do contact the taxi helpline - they are well set up for getting your possessions back in Bangkok. Sorry don't have the number but my condo management did and so would the police (probably searchable on the net)

[SoiBiker]

There are plenty of decent cabbies out there. Similar things have happened to a few people I know - although not over such a long distance. This guy quite literally went the extra mile.