A just reward for a 'good citizen'
An electrician was rewarded with Bt20,000 and is to receive a plaque for his honesty in returning a bag containing Bt500,000 to a Swiss tourist yesterday.
Thongbai Tardyoo, who works at the Metropolitan Electricity Authority in Watliab District, found the bag in a taxi on Monday night. The bag's owner, Ramseyor Ronnial, said he arrived in Bangkok on Monday and took a taxi from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Pattaya. He left his handbag, containing the cash, his passport, air ticket and credit cards, in the taxi. Thongbai said he found the bag in the taxi he took from Suvarnabhumi Airport to his house in Bangyai on Monday night. He said he took the bag with him because he mistakenly thought it was his raincoat. On learning that it was Ronnial's handbag, Thongbai attempted to trace him to tell him to collect it from the Phra Rachawang Police Station in Bangkok. Ronnial collected the bag yesterday and gave Thongbai Bt20,000 as a reward. Thongbai will also be awarded a plaque for "good citizen", said Pol-Colonel Wicharn Borirakkul of Phra Rachawang Police Station.
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