Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 in cash.

AFP: Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 to Thai couple

google.com 20 Nov '12, 7am

Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 in cash.

Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 to Thai couple (AFP) – 16 hours ago SINGAPORE — 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 tr...

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@SongaStone » 23 Nov '12, 1pm
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@mumakeith » 23 Nov '12, 1pm
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@lindsaytsuji » 23 Nov '12, 10am
Turns out you can still count on the kindness of strangers! Singapore cabbie returns $900,000 to Thai couple. [link]
@mildmoxie » 21 Nov '12, 4am
Cabbie in Singapore finds a million dollars in a paper sack (nbd) and returns it. [link]
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