Cabbie and security guards charm Briton by returning his missing wallet with cash

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Cabbie and security guards charm Briton by returning his missing wallet with cash

By Thai PBS

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A Good Samaritan taxi driver found a passenger’s wallet left in his car and drove all the way back to the Suvarnabhumi international airport to hand over the wallet to a security guard who managed to return it to the owner just 5 minutes before his plane took off.

 

Mr Mongkol Chankaew, a security guard at the airport, said that the cabbie, Pongpisut Promkote, deserved commendation for his Good Samaritan act which, he noted, not only demonstrated the good spirit of taxi drivers and will also help promote the image of the country.

 

Upon receiving the wallet, containing about 10,000 baht in various currencies, Mongkol searched for an ID card in the wallet and found a business card of a Mr Charles Mann, a Briton.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/cabbie-security-guards-charm-briton-returning-missing-wallet-cash/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-07-25

[Oziex1]

Get some new material, will ya.

 

This really is getting tiresome.

[colinneil]

19 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

Get some new material, will ya.

 

This really is getting tiresome.

Agree with you, also 5 minutes before his plane took off.

He would have been on board an aircraft, not in the airport.

Just another made up nonsense story.

Edited July 24, 2017 by colinneil

[Thaiwrath]

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

1) -demonstrated the good spirit of taxi drivers and 2)- will also help promote the image of the country.

 

1- Some are great, but they are not all the same.

2- Really ? I think it will take a lot more than this !

[SABloke]

"...which, he noted, not only demonstrated the good spirit of taxi drivers..."

Correction, it demonstrated the good spirit of this particular taxi driver only. Just like we're told that we shouldn't let the bad actions of a few taint all, it's fair then not to do the same with good actions

[tonray]

"After thanking the security guard, the guard escorted him to the IDC where he was questioned as to why he had spent more than 30 days in Thailand and whether he was working illegally."

[inThailand]

Are these almost daily lost farang wallet return stories fabricated by TAT?

[colinneil]

3 minutes ago, inThailand said:

Are these almost daily lost farang wallet return stories fabricated by TAT?

Yes.

[inThailand]

LOS has always been of hub of fakes, now fake news?

[Thechook]

And what another coincidence,  the media were there during this rush back to the airport, the sprint to the departure lounge, the hand over to security who dashes along the gangway and slides under the door as it's closing.

 

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Edited July 25, 2017 by Thechook

[pattayadgw]

Invent something original for just once in your lives... this same old 'good samaritan story' has had its day 

[smew]

Not enough cash to make the real greed kick into the Thai nature 

[nasanews]

Why would you assume this is fake news story?

Is it better if we label each other liars!

[Bluespunk]

Bingo. 

[just.a.thought]

Why bother writing stories like this,it's hardly what you can call news.....

[sujoop]

For those who didn't come to Thailand to take economic advantage of young farm girls in bars (and then got 'taken advantage' by same LOL!) and aren't angry at the world for their own mistakes,   this is a feel good story and the cabbie did great. Also had a wallet returned similarly and have had exactly 1 bad driver out of thousands of trips. To the rest, have a nice day being angry at the world  :-)

[steven100]

another TAT story on the good taxi driver ....     hadn't heard one for a couple of weeks.

[samsensam]

 

lost my wallet in london, it was handed in to the police, hardly a news story

 

possibly the expectations are that a found wallet wont be handed in therefore when it is it makes the news. kind of sad really.

[Moti24]

I've come to the conclusion that Thailand is attracting the wrong sort of tourists; it seems that Thailand is climbing fast up the alhzeimer's bucket list.  Yes, the odd lost wallet - OK, but it's more like a soap-opera here, and we're already on episode 269.