Elderly couple returns lost British passport, bank book and cash

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Elderly couple returns lost British passport, bank book and cash

Phuket Gazette

 

          

The couple had been collecting bottles at the beach to exchange for money. Photo: Rawai Municipality

 

PHUKET: -- An elderly couple this morning returned a wallet containing a British passport, bank book and cash totalling more than 150,000 baht at Pakbang Beach in Rawai.

Prayong Sukkaew, 79, and his wife were collecting bottles at about 6am to sell for money when they spotted the wallet, picked it up and handed it over to Rawai Police officers.

 

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-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2017-05-05

[colinneil]

Nice one, good to see some honest folk around, but hey the older folk are normally good honest people.

Hope they get a nice BIG reward for their honesty.

[Farang hunter]

53 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Nice one, good to see some honest folk around, but hey the older folk are normally good honest people.

Hope they get a nice BIG reward for their honesty.

At least 10% what you think?

[wakeupplease]

60 million are just like these two honest citizens, The rest well you know

[simoh1490]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Nice one, good to see some honest folk around, but hey the older folk are normally good honest people.

Hope they get a nice BIG reward for their honesty.

And the difference between the couple in the article above and say a Thai taxi driver who does exactly the same is?

[Jeremy50]

2 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

60 million are just like these two honest citizens, The rest well you know

I had no idea Thailand has a population of 200 million.

[saakura]

The police officer was also honest enough not to kick out the old couple and pocket the cash.

[copa8]

Nice.
I'm sure this would've likely happened (return everything) in NYC, London, Paris too. 

[steven100]

Can anyone confirm if he is a taxi driver .....

[madusa]

On 2017/5/5 at 7:09 AM, saakura said:

The police officer was also honest enough not to kick out the old couple and pocket the cash.

In my country if the sum is huge the police will murder the couple and share the cash. Yes, there is a chance this will happen because they dare to do anything. Guess my country, no , not Thailand.

[YetAnother]

collecting bottles means they are poor; deserve a nice reward

[rickudon]

Well, actually the CASH was under 5000 baht, the rest was in the bankbook i assume. But yes, i hope they get a reward.