Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 to Thai couple

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A Singaporean taxi driver has been heralded as a hero after he returned Sg$1.1 million ($900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab.

Sia Ka Tian, 70, was shocked to find the money in a black paper bag on the back seat on Monday after he dropped the couple off at a shopping centre.

"When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least $200,000 in the bag," the Straits Times quoted the 31-year veteran in the taxi business as saying.

But when he brought the money to transport company ComfortDelGro's lost-and-found office, his stunned colleagues counted Sg$1.1 million in thousand-dollar bills.

"The money is unimportant to me. It doesn't belong to me, so how can I use it?" he told the newspaper.

The Thai couple reported the loss to the transport company and Sia was waiting for them when they arrived to claim the money.

The report did not say what the couple were doing with such a large sum.

The driver received an undisclosed cash reward from the grateful couple, whose names have been withheld, and the company also plans to give him an award for good service.

"Finding one million dollars in cash is not an everyday affair and in fact, we wonder how many people would have possibly been tempted" to pocket it, company spokeswoman Tammy Tan told AFP.

"We are immensely proud of him and are glad that the passengers recovered their money."

It was the most valuable item returned by a cabbie working for the company. In 2009, another taxi driver returned five kilograms (11 pounds) of gold bars worth Sg$377,000.

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Full mark for being an honest man.

In my view I will take the money and run full stop, I have been working like a donkey all my life and still struggling paying for gas & Elect, f**k honesty if it was few hundreds I would give em back but not millions.

The only reward taxi driver may have receive will be his bus fare to go home?.

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The only reward taxi driver may have receive will be his bus fare to go home?

why? He's got a taxi.

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(Commonsense) who is going to pay for taxi ride to deliver a bag of money he wasn?t aware of it, had he new the bag had millions $$$$$$$ I doubted he would have return to the owner.

[gc1966]

(Commonsense) who is going to pay for taxi ride to deliver a bag of money he wasn?t aware of it, had he new the bag had millions $$$$$$$ I doubted he would have return to the owner.

yet again sj you post without reading,now pay attention,here is the science bit

"When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least $200,000 in the bag," the Straits Times quoted the 31-year veteran in the taxi business as saying.

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Originally Posted by gc1966
yet again sj you post without reading,now pay attention,here is the science bit

"When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least $200,000 in the bag," the Straits Times quoted the 31-year veteran in the taxi business as saying.




We do not have time to read, we based on the subject not what the tabloid said?

So please explain clever man did he went to give money on his taxi or did he burn his shoes??..

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Originally Posted by gc1966
yet again sj you post without reading,now pay attention,here is the science bit

"When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least $200,000 in the bag," the Straits Times quoted the 31-year veteran in the taxi business as saying.




We do not have time to read, we based on the subject not what the tabloid said?

So please explain clever man did he went to give money on his taxi or did he burn his shoes??..

is what the tabloid said not what the subject matter was and if so how did you reach your first conclusion with-out first reading said subject matter and forming an opinion which you then went on to impart to the rest of the digital kaos membership and other guests??????

me no clever man but as the great confucious said "just cos man places cock in fire,it does not mean he is ****in grate"

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[gc1966]

i concede

when it comes to posting the biggest pile of shite you win everytime

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Full mark for being an honest man.

In my view I will take the money and run full stop, I have been working like a donkey all my life and still struggling paying for gas & Elect, f**k honesty if it was few hundreds I would give em back but not millions.

And what's the biggest difference in their culture to ours??

Honor.

Chinese, Japanese..the majority of the far east. All have a culture built with honor at it's roots. And not just family honor.

There have been many times I have pondered over who you are & where you are.
The more you post, the more I believe you're an inmate using the library computer. Given you don't have 'time to read' & your lack of understanding, grammar & spelling issues... you gotta be a toe-rag druggie doing time for street robbery.

[gc1966]

And what's the biggest difference in their culture to ours??

Honor.

Chinese, Japanese..the majority of the far east. All have a culture built with honor at it's roots. And not just family honor.

There have been many times I have pondered over who you are & where you are.
The more you post, the more I believe you're an inmate using the library computer. Given you don't have 'time to read' & your lack of understanding, grammar & spelling issues... you gotta be a toe-rag druggie doing time for street robbery.

i always thought he was a meat-head wannabe