Kindness of Thais and the power of social media reunite tourist with lost bag!

[rooster59]

Kindness of Thais and the power of social media reunite tourist with lost bag!

 

Image: Manager

 

The kindness of the Chiang Mai people and the power of Facebook helped reunite a French tourist with a lost bag yesterday.

 

Thomas Beaudron had lost his backpack while wandering around the Ta Pae area of the northern city. Inside was the Frenchman's passport.

 

People back at his guest house helped him with a sign in Thai and English and an urgent appeal was posted on Facebook.

 

It didn't take long before a Thai lady contacted him to say she had found the bag. She had seen his plea online.

 

Thomas was delighted and gave the city a big thumbs up:

 

"It's amazing to get my bag back. Thank you to the people of Chiang Mai for all the help," he said.

 

Source: Manager

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-12-10

[marko kok prong]

was it a monkey that took it ,like in that video,did he then mooch around feeling sorry for himself,lobbing stones at passing vehicles,then fall in love with the beautiful Thai girl and end up owning a fishing boat?

[carstenp]

Okay, i was sure it was a taxi driver, there will be in the news, returning BIG money

 

But we can all get surprised

 

 

Edited December 10, 2016 by carstenp

[cardinalblue]

I don't he think had big money in his bag. Heard he ripped out one of his PP pages as the reward.....

[sharktooth]

Honestly, the type of bawbag that can lose a bag with his passport in it does not deserve it back.

[somchai jones]

The bitterness simply oozes out of the posts of the usual TV suspects.........very sad. I almost pity them..........

[farcanell]

Story seven of this edition... a feel good story... great ?

 

it offsets four of the previous six dealing with murders and suicides, and proves it not all bad in LOS.

[Retiredandhappyhere]

According to Sharktooth, anybody who loses something valuable deserves to lose it.  One day Sharktooth may lose something really valuable to him like his life perhaps and I am wondering what people might say about him.

 

Why do some posters have to be so nasty on this site?  A little sympathy for one's fellow human beings is an exemplary trait.

[dotpoom]

OK, a person writes a sign for a guy in Thai and English and this warrents headlines in the news media. I'd hate to see what the coverage would be like if they came accross an organ donor or such like....it's a sad sad world indeed.

[Brer Fox]

It is nice to hear these odd good news stories of nice Thai people doing good to help tourists. But these isolated stories don't quite make up for the hundreds of bad news stories of tourists being robbed, bashed, raped, scammed and chopped up by boat propellers killed in buses etc.

Everything should be kept in balance.

[yellowboat]

This woman and the average Thai deserves far more praise and respect than they receive.  Been given rides when needed, and even a Thai School girl caught me from falling down a steep cement staircase.   

[billd766]

2 hours ago, dotpoom said:

OK, a person writes a sign for a guy in Thai and English and this warrents headlines in the news media. I'd hate to see what the coverage would be like if they came accross an organ donor or such like....it's a sad sad world indeed.

 

Unfortunately there are some sad posters on TVF who can find nothing nice in Thailand or the Thai people and only make sad and bitter posts.

 

I feel sorry for them that they cannot seem to find anything good to comment about.

[jerojero]

Feel good story. Idiot for losing his passport.

[sharktooth]

Good grief... a backpacker is stupid enough to lose his backpack then it gets returned and it's news? Uneffingbelievable.

[Thechook]

Right on cue.  The feel good story after stories of tourists being assaulted etc.  Happens every time without fail.

[Chicog]

I would imagine any thief would have had one whiff of the soap dodger's dirty unmentionables and decided to give up their life of crime.

[marko kok prong]

1 hour ago, Chicog said:

I would imagine any thief would have had one whiff of the soap dodger's dirty unmentionables and decided to give up their life of crime.

Your quite right there,he probably had his other pair of underpants in there,or being french possibly a thong.

[Thechook]

Sounds like rubbish to me.  People at his guest house had to help him sign in online.  The guy looks about 20 yrs old,  and he didn't know how to sign into social media?  Sign into what site exactly, was it the TAT We will make you famous site?

[Moonmoon]

I left my passport in the taxi once from swampy back to my house. The driver drove back to my house to return it. 

 

There is goodness n kindness in every country

[billd766]

18 hours ago, Moonmoon said:

I left my passport in the taxi once from swampy back to my house. The driver drove back to my house to return it. 

 

There is goodness n kindness in every country

 

You shouldn't post good news things like this. You know how much it upsets the doom and gloom merchants and the naysayers and those who believe that ALL Thais are nasty people whose only aim in life is to scam us stupid farangs, and steal all our money and our passports.

[sharktooth]

Jesus Wept, another bun fight? There are good and bad people in every country. As there are intelligent and stupid people.

Edited December 12, 2016 by sharktooth

[carstenp]

On 10/12/2016 at 2:15 PM, carstenp said:

Okay, i was sure it was a taxi driver, there will be in the news, returning BIG money

 

But we can all get surprised

 

 

Okay there it was.