A Singaporean cabdriver discovered a black paper bag brimming with money in the back of his taxi after dropping off a Thai couple who were on vacation, AFP reports. Seeing the number of Singaporean $1,000 bills in the bag, the cabbie immediately got worried, he told the Straits Times.
“When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least $200,000 in the bag,” Sia Ka Tian told the newspaper. He turned the money over to his company straightaway.
Turns out the 70-year-old cabbie’s judgment was right, but his math was off — there were actually 1.1 million Singaporean dollars in the bag — about $900,000.
At least the story has a happy ending: the couple who’d lost the money gave the honest cabbie an undisclosed cash reward, and Sia has been touted as a hero.
“The money is unimportant to me,” he told the Straits Times. “It doesn’t belong to me, so how can I use it?”
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Singaporean cabdriver discovered a black paper bag brimming with money
in the back of his taxi after dropping off a Thai couple who were on
vacation, AFP
reports. Seeing the number of Singaporean $1,000 bills in the bag, the cabbie immediately got worried, he told the
Straits Times.
“When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there
was at least $200,000 in the bag,” Sia Ka Tian told the newspaper. He
turned the money over to his company straightaway.
Turns out the 70-year-old cabbie’s judgment was right, but his math
was off — there were actually 1.1 million Singaporean dollars in the bag
— about $900,000.
At least the story has a happy ending: the couple who’d lost the
money gave the honest cabbie an undisclosed cash reward, and Sia has
been touted as a hero.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/22/honest-cabbie-returns-900000-to-forgetful-passengers/#ixzz2D3CaV0VV
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