rooster59 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist Image: Daily News A tourist from the Netherlands had good reason to thank a maid from Myanmar at his hotel on Koh Samui yesterday. Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. Sawee found the green bag under some stairs - it contained Aussie dollars to the tune of 280,000 baht - several years wages for a maid. Police were called to the Ark Bar Hotel in Chaweng and CCTV was checked before Alexander Joseph, 31, was confirmed as the rightful owner. He gave the honest maid $100 as a reward. Daily News praised the maid for helping the tourist image of Thailand. Source: Daily News -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-07-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just1Voice Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they. No racism in Thailand, is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 30 minutes ago, rooster59 said: Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. Not just the Thais eh? Who would have thunk it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacuum Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Good deed. Now the Dutch can afford to buy himself some decent clothes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew65 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 5 minutes ago, Just1Voice said: They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they. No racism in Thailand, is there? The language is still called Burmese. Then again, who are we to dictate how the Thais refer to their neighbours?! Are you one of these Westerners who sees "racism" everywhere?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 1 hour ago, rooster59 said: Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist I can see a defamation suit coming from a group of Thai taxi drivers, concerned about them slipping down the honesty ratings on the 'returned tourists property' page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon789561 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 very honest maid and great to see . . . or maybe she knew there was cctv everywhere and that she couldn't get away with it . . . cynical but likely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aachen Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 2 hours ago, canuckamuck said: Who would have thunk it. Repeat that in English, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Aachen said: 2 hours ago, canuckamuck said: Who would have thunk it. Repeat that in English, please. Seams rite tome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Real Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Just1Voice said: They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they. No racism in Thailand, is there? So, what is more racist with calling someone Burmese, instead of a person from Myanmar? You totally lost me there. What is it you know, that many others don´t? However, regarding the news. It´s a really lucky guy, at the same time as dumb as a nutshell. How can he just lose 11K of Australian dollars? Unfathomable! Thumbs up for the maid, though. Tumbs down again for the australian guy, who only gave 100 dollar as reward. Disgusting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naroge Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 4 hours ago, rooster59 said: Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 37 minutes ago, Naroge said: Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed. $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less than 1% , I get a better reward from my credit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowboat Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 4 hours ago, rooster59 said: Burmese maid takes a leaf out of the Thai book! Returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist I find the humble coming from Myanmar to be on par Thais. They do not follow Thais nor need they do so. Tho people from both countries have governments worthy of shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 'Sawee Let Mau, 37, showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes.' I'm not sure they are any more honest than any other nationality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 22 minutes ago, sirineou said: $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less than 1% I get a better reward from my credit card. So you would have given her how much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Repeat that in English, please."Ooo da thunk it" (almost cokney slang) or "who would of thought it possible" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baerboxer Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 5 hours ago, Just1Voice said: They just HAD to put "Burmese" maid instead of "Myanmar", didn't they. No racism in Thailand, is there? I have several friends from Myanmar including one medical doctor, two accountants and a sales manager. All refer to them self as Burmese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Get Real Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Naroge said: Nice to see the maid got a decent reward. Most often they seem to end up empty handed. Decent? Yeah, I guess it´s better than nothing as you say. There is a rule in Thailand, though. 10% should be given to the one that finds it, but as always it´s not enforced or in use. My opinion is that the guy should have been given her at least 500. It must be better to have 10500 than nothing, right? That would have been decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Real Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said: So you would have given her how much? I guess, read above is to be used. On the other hand, you just think it´s only a maid, so never mind, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaichiro Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Carrying around all that dough... must be trying to score something or planning on getting a lot of massages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mok199 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 very very nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alainpm Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 7 hours ago, Andrew65 said: The language is still called Burmese. Then again, who are we to dictate how the Thais refer to their neighbours?! Are you one of these Westerners who sees "racism" everywhere?! You are so right. And Myanmar is the name of the country imposed by the Burmese Junta, before that it was called Burma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ks45672 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 7 hours ago, Vacuum said: Good deed. Now the Dutch can afford to buy himself some decent clothes.... The reward was typically Dutch cheap lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said: So you would have given her how much? To be honest, I don't know, I guess it all depends on the financial situation I find myself at the time. If I needed the money for my mom's life saving surgery , very litle , apologise ,and explain. If I needed for a drunken binger in Pattaya I would be more generous, (end everything in between) after all I would have had zero if she had kept it. I don't know this person's situation and I am not being critical to him, I am not critical to you either I don't know you and I don't know your situation either,, am being critical to callin a $100 reward "decent". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussieroaming Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 6 hours ago, sirineou said: $100 a decent reward for returning $11,000? that's less than 1% , I get a better reward from my credit card. In other words he was tighter than a fishes <deleted> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, Aussieroaming said: In other words he was tighter than a fishes <deleted> That's funny! LOL in the US we say "tighter than a crabs ass" In the UK I hear ducks are involved .But I haven't heard anything about Aquaman's sphincter yet LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanemax Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 She probably thought that it was fake money from Cambodia and didnt want to exchange it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thian Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 See this is what you get from 220 baht atm-fee's for foreigners only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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