Mama mia! It's all hugs and wais as "Aunty Porn" returns a 'million' to Italian

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Mama mia! It's all hugs and wais as "Aunty Porn" returns a 'million' to Italian

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported on yet another story showcasing the honesty of Thai people and their desire to promote tourism to the kingdom. 

 

They screamed in their opening paragraphs that "Aunty Porn" - a food seller in Chumpon - had returned a million baht to an Italian tourist. 

 

In reality the black bag she found in her restaurant by the train station in the southern Thai city contained euros and dollars amounting to 20,000 baht. But there was a Thai bank book with a deposit in excess of a million. 

 

A Thai Rath reporter just happened to be at the police station around 8 pm last night when Siriporn Morkphichai, 71, came in with the bag to report her finding.

 

The bag contained lots of things beside the bank book and money - there were many credit cards and a passport in the name of an Italian man called Alessio Trevisan, aged 67. 

 

In next to no time the Italian came into the station - he was all panicky and his face was pale.

 

That was until he saw "Aunty Porn" and his missing bag.

 

"How wonderful are the Thai people to tourists," he said as the joy overwhelmed him. 

 

He hugged Aunty Porn who responded with a wai and pictures were taken for posterity and the police record. 

 

After he checked that everything was still in the bag - it was - he gave her a reward of 1,000 baht and went on his merry way - another more than satisfied customer to Thailand.

 

Aunty told Thai Rath that she runs the the "Raan Paa Porn" (Aunty Porn's Shop) by the station. She sells a la carte dishes. 

 

Earlier in the day a foreigner and three friends had come into her establishment to eat. After they paid and left she found the bag by an archway in the restaurant.

 

"I thought it was a bomb at first and I dared not touch it," she said. But after her daughter was called they looked inside and found the various contents. Her daughter tried to locate the owner at the station but to no avail. 

 

"I hung onto the bag for three hours until closing time hoping he would return," said Aunty Porn before she decided to take it to the police because:

 

"I was concerned about the image of us Thais in the eyes of tourists". 

 

The latest example of Thai honesty follows a mini mart employee who returned 91,000 baht to a forgetful tourist earlier in the week. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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[Thaiwrath]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

"How wonderful are the Thai people to tourists," he said

He obviously hasn't visited a National Park yet !

[jerojero]

Sorry. but he's an idiot. People out and about with piles of cash and passports 'forgetting' they are carrying such. Dimentia or plain idiots? And if he's got 1,000,000 in the bank, he could easily have parted with more than 1,000 Baht as reward to the old lady who could have just as easily kept the 20,000 and garbaged all his documents! Sheesh.

[dcnx]

Who doesn’t carry around $20,000 cash and toss it aside while eating in Thailand?

 

The Thais are so disconnected they don’t understand we don’t travel with that kind of cash, especially in the digital age, thus these outrageous stories. 

 

Bonus points for always being in a black bag. Straight out of a movie.

[dcnx]

9 minutes ago, jerojero said:

Sorry. but he's an idiot. People out and about with piles of cash and passports 'forgetting' they are carrying such. Dimentia or plain idiots? And if he's got 1,000,000 in the bank, he could easily have parted with more than 1,000 Baht as reward to the old lady who could have just as easily kept the 20,000 and garbaged all his documents! Sheesh.

The bigger idiot would be anyone who believes this story is real.

[Nyezhov]

Yeah what a cheap Charlie. Id have given her 5K, thats worth saving the bankbook hassle alone

[Justgrazing]

In fairness to 'em whilst some may have succumbed to temptation to keep it there are Thai's who have a sense of honesty and duty to return something that does not being to them .. I had my passport returned by a beach lounger renter after it dropped out of my shorts side pocket one afternoon unbeknown to me and though I hadnt gone far from her pitch she came running after me to return it .. and though there is no immediate monetary worth to it , it is a real pain in the butt having to report and get a replacement .. 

[mauGR1]

2 minutes ago, dcnx said:

The bigger idiot would be anyone who believes this story is real.

It's not that incredible, do you think there are inconsistencies ?

[CelticBhoy]

"A Thai Rath reporter just happened to be at the police station . . . "

 

How convenient  ????

[mauGR1]

1 minute ago, Justgrazing said:

In fairness to 'em whilst some may have succumbed to temptation to keep it there are Thai's who have a sense of honesty and duty to return something that does not being to them .. I had my passport returned by a beach lounger renter after it dropped out of my shorts side pocket one afternoon unbeknown to me and though I hadnt gone far from her pitch she came running after me to return it .. and though there is no immediate monetary worth to it , it is a real pain in the butt having to report and get a replacement .. 

Years ago, one waiter run behind me for 200 meters from the restaurant where i've been eating, to return my forgotten camera.

I wanted to give him 500 B. , but he refused the tip.

[DavisH]

If he left 500 baht on the table she would have pocketed it -only a little bad karma. Giving back 20K + all that other stuff = big karma. Many believe pinching that much would bring them bad luck in the future. 

 

She should have got more than a lousy 1000 baht though. 

[wreckingcountry]

Wonder where the source of all thatmoney was ! An Italian in Thailand


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[Dexlowe]

Whether real or contrived, there is a downside to these stories. Even the dumbest petty thief, faced with this avalanche of tales of thick-headed tourists wandering carelessly about the place carrying enormous amounts of cash (contrary to all they're told to do in a foreign land), is going to figure the odds are extremely high of making a killing. That increases the chances of you and I getting mugged. 

[Kurtsie]

How does an Italian tourist have a Thai bank account?

[BestB]

2 minutes ago, Kurtsie said:

How does an Italian tourist have a Thai bank account?

Only a wild guess but I say he opened one?

[BestB]

One thing all Italians have in common and that is stingy beyond reason.

 

she returned his life back to him and all tight a$$ gave her is 1000 baht .

 

pathetic in all honesty

[Kurtsie]

5 minutes ago, BestB said:

Only a wild guess but I say he opened one?

Without work permit or business or retirement visa?

[mauGR1]

1 minute ago, BestB said:

One thing all Italians have in common and that is stingy beyond reason.

 

she returned his life back to him and all tight a$$ gave her is 1000 baht .

 

pathetic in all honesty

Other nationalities have worse reputation, but what do you think would have been the right amount ?

I know for experience that it's hard for honest people to accept rewards for what they consider very normal.

[janclaes47]

Feeling sick to the stomach from reading most comments in this thread, and many other threads for that matter

[LomSak27]

Another one .... feeling the love now!   

[roo860]

She's defiantly a 'Porn Star'!

 

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[freedomnow]

A headline you cannot help but click to make sense of it....

[DrTuner]

Returning belongings to their owner should not be news.

[LennyW]

I'am bad.....i was expecting something completely different in this story , Note to self...get mind out of the gutter!!

[mauGR1]

1 minute ago, LennyW said:

I'am bad.....i was expecting something completely different in this story , Note to self...get mind out of the gutter!!

I guess you're not alone, "aunty Porn" must have left a few disappointed

[GBW]

52 minutes ago, Kurtsie said:

Without work permit or business or retirement visa?

Yes, its quite easy, I have two, although both times I had to sign a stat dec stating that I was not an American citizen, not sure why ??????????

[Nyezhov]

1 hour ago, Kurtsie said:

Without work permit or business or retirement visa?

I opened one on a tourist visa

[NaaKap]

After the minivan driver I arranged to with the hotel to pick me up from the airport. ( I have always had problems with taxi drivers ) went throgh my luggage and stole my wallet containing cash in various currencies. Reporting it. Viewing the Airoprt video that clearly showed the driver leaning into the in the back of the van for an inordinate amount of time the police would do nothing. No love or trust here. Nor ever will be. Learned my lesson. In the LOS= Land of scams

[jackdd]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

"How wonderful are the Thai people to tourists," he said as the joy overwhelmed him. 

I doubt that he said this. A bank account with a million THB in it probably means that he is retiring here so he would most likely not call himself a tourist. What else of this story is made up?

[Bert got kinky]

I find it very strange that these type of cases all seem to have the same script.

1. Farang loses money (always a farang)

2. Honest Thai finds money and takes it to the local trustee police station (always an honest Thai and usually a taxi driver).

3. Farang turns up and thanks the honest Thai and tells the world how good & honest Thai people are ("How wonderful are the Thai people to tourists").

4. Reporter who happens to be at the same police station just at the right time reports the story.

 

 

You couldn't make this stuff up, could you? ????