Returning a handbag full of money to a careless woman

Duc Vu - Hoang Lam• December 26, 2020 10:03

(Baonghean.vn) - Ms. Tran Thi Nguyen in Dai Dong commune went to work at the commune headquarters and forgot her bag containing money on someone else's motorbike, so she reported it to the police.

At around 11am on December 24, the Dai Dong Commune Police Department (Thanh Chuong) received a report of lost property from Ms. Tran Thi Nguyen. According to Ms. Nguyen, 1 hour before, she went to the commune People's Committee headquarters to make a transaction. When stopping her motorbike to enter, due to carelessness, Ms. Nguyen hooked her handbag to someone's motorbike and thenforgetlost, went straight to the committee's office. When she discovered she had forgotten to bring her bag, this woman could not remember whose car she had hung it on. In the bag were 16 million VND in cash and some of Ms. Nguyen's personal papers.

Dai Dong Commune Police returned property to Ms. Nguyen.

Immediately after receiving the report, the Commune Police Department extracted the cameras of the residents around the area to search for the car as described by Ms. Nguyen. And identified the handbag hanging on the car of Mr. Nguyen Phuong Ngoc, a citizen of the commune.
“When we arrived at Ngoc’s house, we saw his child sitting and playing with a handbag. Only then did Ngoc realize that he had accidentally brought home a handbag containing many other people’s belongings. Ngoc said that after finishing his work at the committee, when he got on his motorbike to go home, he discovered a handbag hanging on the left mirror of the motorbike. Thinking it was his child’s handbag that he had hung up that morning, he brought it home,” said Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Anh Tuan.
In the presence of Mr. Ngoc's family, the Commune Police checked the bag and found 16 million VND inside along with personal documents as described by Ms. Nguyen.
That same afternoon, all the property was returned to Ms. Nguyen. After receiving the property, Ms. Nguyen sent a thank you letter to Dai Dong Commune Police.