Thread: Bangkok: Passenger left B10m gold in taxi

Some happy cab driver is out getting a new custom paint job on that baby right now......Seriously, how the fuck can anyone "forget" 500 baht weight of gold in a taxi???? Boggles the mind.

Some happy cab driver is out getting a new custom paint job on that baby right now

maybe the next passenger in the cab found it, or at least that would be what the taxi driver would say if challenged.

Too bad the cab number's not visible - would have made for a great lottery number!

Finders keepers, i say. Anyone with that sort of contempt for money deserves to lose it, what a dumb ass.

hard story to swallow ain't it ?

If it's true, he must be feeling a bit of a fathead.

Dont we have the technology to first clean up the image and see what taxi company it belonged to them realize its a brand new model. That would be the start. I would guess that they can have a better shot of the plate if they simply go forward a few frames,or back a few frames and digitally enhance the numbers. I dont think the CC camera is still and going off every few seconds.
But then again I enjoy CSI..
But the next passenger argument will hold as has been pointed out many times in the "Taxi to raise fares thread". Too few issue receipts. No documentation where he went next.

Cabbie urged to return Bt13m worth of gold - The Nation

Cabbie urged to return Bt13m worth of gold

The Nation
Pathum Thani March 16, 2012 1:00 am


The owner of a gold shop in Ubon Ratchathani alerted police yesterday saying that he had left gold ornaments worth Bt13 million in a taxi on Wednesday evening, police said yesterday.

Akekarat Kanokwannakorn, 60, said he had left the 540 baht weight of gold in a pink Toyota Altis taxi that he had flagged down on Bangkok's Worachak Road to travel to Si Mum Muang Market in Pathum Thani's Klong Luang district. However, he said he could not remember the cab's licenceplate number.

Akekarat said he and wife, Surat, 58, had taken the gold ornaments to a shop in Bangkok's Yaowarat area to change the patterns.

Khu Khot police investigator Pol LtColonel Udom Sukprasert said the market's security camera had captured images of the cab the couple were riding in, but the licence number was not clear. He said it would be difficult to locate the cab, especially since there are some 20,000 pink taxis plying the streets in Greater Bangkok.

However, Udom said the cabbie should return the gold, because if he hung on to it, police would be able to gather enough evidence for an arrest warrant.

Police have been checking with other gold shops to see if any of them have bought ornaments according to Akekarat's description, while 20 taxi companies have been called upon to help locate the cabbie.

That's about 7 kilograms in the real world. Not a bad door stop, I suppose.

Originally Posted by sabang

That's about 7 kilograms in the real world. Not a bad door stop, I suppose.

7.622 kg to be exact. That would make healthy stops for every door in the house.

I found a 50 pound note in a London taxi as an 18 year rushing to get the last train of the night back home from Victoria. Asked the driver to drop me in the Leicester sq instead and had a bloody good night with enough left over for a b and b

Fifty quid went alot further in the early 80s

Surely they would know the location of the security camera, and they know the direction that the taxi was going in.
There's security cameras every hundred metres or less in big cities nowadays.
If this camera can't pick up the number plate then at least one of the dozens of others should.
My guess is that the money has already been picked up by the BiB and has been distributed.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Surely they would know the location of the security camera, and they know the direction that the taxi was going in.
There's security cameras every hundred metres or less in big cities nowadays.
If this camera can't pick up the number plate then at least one of the dozens of others should.
My guess is that the money has already been picked up by the BiB and has been distributed.

Early bonus for the lads

Does insurance cover being a twat?

Originally Posted by Hampsha

It is a hard story to believe but we hear these left-it-in-a-taxi stories a bit too often here.

I left a really nice Durian in a taxi once

very annoying

The usual "I left shitloads in a taxi" stories are normally reporting the "salt of the Earth" honest taxi driver's human qualities in returning the sum or object.

I like this one better. Numb nuts doesn't deserve the gold back.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

I left a really nice Duran in a taxi once

very annoying

Which one? I found them all annoying.

It annoys me when people leave masticated chewing gum in taxi's.
So when someone leaves a few kilo's of gold, I'll just consider it Karma.

I hate it when you get in the taxi and can't get all your bags in because some inconsiderate arse has left a sack of gold in there.

Originally Posted by kmart

The usual "I left shitloads in a taxi" stories are normally reporting the "salt of the Earth" honest taxi driver's human qualities in returning the sum or object. I like this one better. Numb nuts doesn't deserve the gold back.

The taxi driver has just handed in the gold.

(On local tv station).

I hope he gets a nice fat reward. It must have been killing him deciding what to do. Keep it? Return it? Keep it? Return it? Keep it? Return it? Keep it? Return it? Keep it? Return it? Keep it and run away with my mia noi?