Good Boy Returns Wallet to French Tourist
by CityNews



CityNews – A French couple, on holiday in Chiang Mai, had lost a wallet on the Sunday Walking Street this past weekend.

A prathom 4 boy from Puttisopon School had found the wallet on the same day as he was wandering around Wat Chedi Luang, and reported it to the police.

Full story: http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/good-boy-returns-wallet-to-french-tourist/


-- Chiang City News 2016-02-18

Nice job kid, hope Frenchie bought you an ice cream................

This boy will hopefully, grow up to be one honest Thai man, an anomaly in this country....

Big thumbs up to this lad.

He's gonna grow up and become a taxi driver for sure ......

On topic - kudos to the kid.

Off topic - suggesting that most Thais are dishonest begs the question to me as to why anyone who believes that overbroad (and incorrect) denigration would want to live here.

The underage boy could sue the farang for touching his thigh and his buttocks, if it happened in the US or Europe I mean. (joking)

Kudos to the boy, and the police for their part also. Hope the parents showed the boy their pride in him and that the whole experience of being honest was uplifting and rewarding for him....as it should be !

Nice story!

Bad headline.

Good boy! Who's a good boy? Are you a good boy? Here's your bone.

And in New York a semi-good boy finds wallet and ...

FLATBUSH, Brooklyn – The person who found a young man's wallet at King's Theater during a Wilco concert likely shares the same taste in music, fondness for the wallet and cold-hard cash.

After going to a concert in Brooklyn on the night of Feb. 5., Reilly Flaherty, 28, arrived to his Lower East Side apartment and realized his wallet was missing. In a freak-out moment, Flaherty took an Uber car back to King's Theater, but couldn't find his wallet.

He canceled his credit cards on the way back home and thought the story was over. A week later, however, he received a letter from a quasi-Good Samaritan. Inside the envelope he found his identification and some of his cards.

"Dear Reilly Flaherty, I found your wallet and your driver's license had your address so here's your credit cards and other important stuff. I kept the cash because I needed weed. The Metrocard because well the fare's $2.75 now and the wallet 'cause it kinda cool. Enjoy the rest of your day. Toodles, Anonymous."

http://pix11.com/2016/02/17/wallet-returned-to-manhattan-man-in-most-new-york-way/

No surprise here, most Thai's I know are honest. Yes this includes the police. A friend of mine recently got killed in a traffic accident, the officer on site returned my friends wallet with over 20,000 baht , also had a young soldier pick up my camera, ask around and returned it to me. Yes there are dishonest folks here but we have them in my home country and every other country I've visited

And in New York a semi-good boy finds wallet and ...

FLATBUSH, Brooklyn – The person who found a young man's wallet at King's Theater during a Wilco concert likely shares the same taste in music, fondness for the wallet and cold-hard cash.

After going to a concert in Brooklyn on the night of Feb. 5., Reilly Flaherty, 28, arrived to his Lower East Side apartment and realized his wallet was missing. In a freak-out moment, Flaherty took an Uber car back to King's Theater, but couldn't find his wallet.

He canceled his credit cards on the way back home and thought the story was over. A week later, however, he received a letter from a quasi-Good Samaritan. Inside the envelope he found his identification and some of his cards.

http://pix11.com/2016/02/17/wallet-returned-to-manhattan-man-in-most-new-york-way/

"Dear Reilly Flaherty, I found your wallet and your driver's license had your address so here's your credit cards and other important stuff. I kept the cash because I needed weed. The Metrocard because well the fare's $2.75 now and the wallet 'cause it kinda cool. Enjoy the rest of your day. Toodles, Anonymous."

This is EXACTLY what happened to me in Thailand about 2 years ago. I lost my wallet on a Saturday and when I got home the telephone was ringing. It was the guy who found my wallet. He told me that he would keep all of the cash (about 8K Baht) but that he would not try and use my credit cards and would return everything to me by post on Monday. Sure enough on Tuesday the EMS guy showed up with an envelope with no return name and address; only a mobile number. Inside was all of my credit and ATM cards, my kids photos, insurance cards, etc. He did indeed keep every Baht and the 2500 Baht wallet I bought at Central. The wife was furious and rang him demanding the cash. He cursed at her and said no way, that he had lost more than that in a night of drinking and gambling and I was lucky to get back what I did. When she asked where the wallet was he said that "it made the EMS postage go from 30 to 50 Baht so he took everything out and tossed the wallet in the bin at the P.O."!

This boy will hopefully, grow up to be one honest Thai man, an anomaly in this country....

Why are you even here in Thailand? Go home old man.

This boy will hopefully, grow up to be one honest Thai man, an anomaly in this country....

Why are you even here in Thailand? Go home old man.

Absolutely right. It's just a pity we're not permitted to tell him (Ezzra) to **** ***.

On my first trip to Thailand after a grueling 23 hour trip from Florida, I found myself in a taxi in the middle of the night in the old heart of Chiang Mai heading for my hotel. The streets are narrow and dark and zig-gagging all over the landscape. My first thought was this taxi driver is taking me to some dark place where his friends are waiting to rob this newly arriving foreigner with a fat wallet stuffed with crisp American dollars. I pay the fare and stepped out of the taxi and start to drag my bag thru the hotel entrance. I realize there is no longer a bulge in my back pocket so where is my wallet? I sort of freeze and then turn around and there stands the taxi driver in the headlights of his taxi with my wallet in his raised hand! I had dropped it as I got out of his taxi and when he started to back out of the driveway he had spotted it on the pavement.

I cringe when I hear falang rail against the integrity of all, most, or even many Thais as that hasn't been my experience for 17+ years.

For example only, about 15 years ago, I lost my passport somewhere in Bangkok. So, went out to the US embassy, signed up for a new one, and was told to come pick it up at 11AM the next morning. About 11 that night, the hotel (Rose) desk called me and said somebody was in the lobby to see me. Went down and saw this little old guy (I had no idea who he was) who spoke no English, he took me by the arm out the door, and led me down the alley to his taxi. He then pointed to the rear floor of his cab and then pulled my passport out of his pocket and handed it to me. I was amazed and still totally confused as to how the guy found me as I had gotten the taxi out on Suriwongse.....the guy must have really put in some substantial effort to find me. And it took me several minutes to force the nice old guy to take a tip for his efforts.

[As a postscript, I called the embassy in the morning, told them what happened, they said that they'd cancel the new passport (but wouldn't refund the $60.00), and I was good to go. Well, not quite accurate. Was going home several days later and, when attempting to check in, all sorts of bells and whistles went off, some nice armed dudes escorted me to a back room, and it took 20 minutes to convince them that I wasn't carrying a stolen passport. Apparently the damn embassy puts out a "stolen" message for all lost passports and forgot to undo the warning for mine. A bit exciting but not too funny for a while....]

My girlfriend found 1000 baht on our way home from a restaurant and I said to her 'lucky you." Two days later she showed it to her mother who told her it looked like a note that belonged to a poor person. She then gave it to a charity.