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Detectives in Thailand

10/3/2017

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Walking around one evening in Thailand, we stumbled upon someone’s wallet. Looking around, there’s nobody. We check for ID, call out the person’s name in the nearby shops, but no one answers. Our next thought is to bring it to the police, but as we start walking that way we begin doubting. What if they’re corrupt? It’s dark, we’re smack in the middle of tourist county, and everything around us screams tourist trap. Our thought was “they’ll never get it back”.

And so we ended up spending a good part of the evening playing detective. First, tracking down a tour company they had used to find their hotel, and then finding their room number by using the front desk info ourselves as the lobby was empty. Luckily for them we are honest people and brought it back intact - it could have gone the other way.

We lost an entire evening of our trip that night, but we were happy as they gave us money for frozen treats in exchange! We're also considering adding this new experience to our resumes, any thoughts?
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Danielle
9/4/2017 06:46:31 pm

i can't believe you found the owner of the wallet that night. That's impressive!

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10/4/2017 06:34:01 pm

Haha thanks! We were so excited to have found them, we definitely felt like big shots!

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