Watch What You Eat & Your Pockets

Others helping themselves to your stuff

On the evening of the fireworks displays in HCMC, Ha Noi had their's a day later for some reason, I was walking in Q1 and I saw a motorcyclist following a pair of Foreigner pedestrians, a few metres behind.

Not thinking too much of it, I went into a store and made some purchases.

When I came out the couple were further down the street and the motorcyclist had stopped and had his arm around the man.

From the drivers prior behaviour it was obvious he didn't know the couple, and furthermore, Vietnamese are not usually tactile (touchy feely) with strangers.

As I got closer, I made a mental note of the motorcycle's plate number, an irritating habit I was taught in the military (if you want another, check cloud scenes in movies - to see they weren't made at the same time!).

A few minutes later a very agitated couple was running down the street.

It turns out our motorcycle friend had run over the male's sandalled foot and was apologising, with his arm over his shoulder commiserating with the victim and his hand in the man's pocket stealing his wallet!

I took them to the notorious Ben Nghe ward Cong An station and the man made a report with the help of a waiter from a nearby hotel.

I supplied a partial plate number.

And the Ben Nhge Cong An said they would investigate, but they needed money to pay the detective!!

Long story short: the Cong An received a phone call from a senior colonel in the Interior Police, the missing wallet and money were returned to the unhappy Finlander and a pickpocket celebrated Tet in jail, in Q10.

The moral of the story is that if anyone runs over your foot ...

Chúc Mừng Nǎm Mới!

Haha Jaitch good story. I love happy endings.