In an act of gallantry befitting his profession, taxi driver Pongsin Jirakulthawornpat, 45, found a bag containing THB3 million over the weekend and promptly returned the money to its owner.
Pongsin’s actions are even more remarkable because the money had literally fallen off of a truck.
The bag came from a Brink’s security vehicle that had been making its rounds late Sunday night, replacing cash in Bangkok-area ATMs. Apparently, one of the truck’s doors fell open as it drove across Rama III Bridge, which is where the cash fell out.
Pongsin, a former bank employee himself, told the Nation that he returned the money because he didn’t want the person who lost it to wind up getting in trouble.
Trouble, however, may hound the Brink’s truck crew regardless of Pongsin’s help. Not only has the crew given contradictory explanations of how the money was lost in the first place, the trucks’ CCTV system was “out of order” during the incident, meaning that the company is going to have a tough time telling whether the truck or the employees were at fault for the loss.
