Honest Singaporean cabbie

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Hi guys. My first post. I've been following you all for 3 months now. I get a great laugh from urleft funny photos.
Thanks mate.

Interesting news item from Singapore that you may not have yet seen.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/15428554/singapore-cabbie-returns-thai-couple/

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The Thai's here are real lucky.   

I do not have insight into Asians being more honest than others, I think it comes down to person. 


They were lucky to get into an honest man's cab.   I hope I would do the same thing as the cab driver. 

[nookiebear]

What the hell were they doing carrying that amount in cash??

[chudless]

What the hell were they doing carrying that amount in cash??

Christmas shopping.

[dundeemk6]

That amount of cash in big bills in a bag in a cab = money with a bad smell on it ... it would be highly likely that these are illegal gains so I would have donated it to a local charity instead of giving it back ...

[chudless]

That amount of cash in big bills in a bag in a cab = money with a bad smell on it ... it would be highly likely that these are illegal gains so I would have donated it to a local charity instead of giving it back ...

Bad smell or not you can still have a great time with it.
Charity starts at home.
If i had of found it they wouldn't have got a single penny back.
The cab driver must be on medication no normal person would have handed it in.

[Speros]

That amount of cash in big bills in a bag in a cab = money with a bad smell on it ... it would be highly likely that these are illegal gains so I would have donated it to a local charity instead of giving it back ...
Bad smell or not you can still have a great time with it.
Charity starts at home.
If i had of found it they wouldn't have got a single penny back.
The cab driver must be on medication no normal person would have handed it in.

i guess its how you are brought up....or dragged up?

[chudless]

That amount of cash in big bills in a bag in a cab = money with a bad smell on it ... it would be highly likely that these are illegal gains so I would have donated it to a local charity instead of giving it back ...
Bad smell or not you can still have a great time with it.
Charity starts at home.
If i had of found it they wouldn't have got a single penny back.
The cab driver must be on medication no normal person would have handed it in.

i guess its how you are brought up....or dragged up?

There is no evidence to suggest this money smells,it pure speculation.

Are you honestly saying you would hand this money in just because you have suspicions about how this money was obtained.
It may have come from illegal earnings or legal earnings.
But it's still money i suggest you come down from your moral high ground and join the rest of us.
After all this is a life changing amount of money.

[dundeemk6]

Chudless : this is the way I was brought up ... what I haven't earned doesn't belong to me and I don't want it ... even in need ...

[chudless]

Chudless : this is the way I was brought up ... what I haven't earned doesn't belong to me and I don't want it ... even in need ...

Doesn't the law state possession is nine tenths of the law.
Looking at it that way it becomes legal everyone's happy.
Lighten up remember the old saying.
You don't go to prison for committing the crime,you go to prison because you have been caught.
It's only a bit of fun no harm meant.
But honestly they wouldn't have got a single dime back from me.

[JimNasium]

Chudless : this is the way I was brought up ... what I haven't earned doesn't belong to me and I don't want it ... even in need ...

  $1 or $1,000,000 - It doesn't matter. Anyway, the cabbie got an honest reward and he can sleep with a clean conscience. There was a story a while back of a cabbie in Bangkok who found a load of gold in the back of his car. He returned it, got a fat financial reward plus some gold for his honesty. That's the way I want to earn my money too. 

[Alan]

How was so much cash in the cab in the first place. I thought the limit for taking cash out of Thailand was $20,000 or does that only apply to farang money?
Difficult to say how people would honestly react in this situation. I think this cabbie is in the minority group though.