Danang cop praised for picking foreigner’s phone from sewer
A Danang police officer is getting a lot of love on the internet after a photo showed him prising open a manhole cover to retrieve a cell phone belonging to a Korean tourist that had fallen into a sewer.
Le Viet Trinh Thanh, an officer in Hai Chau District, was informed during his patrol April 9 that a Korean had dropped his phone into a drain pipe.
Thanh arrived at the spot, borrowed a crowbar from a nearby house and retrieved the phone with his bare hands.
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| A police officer helps retrieve a phone for a South Korean man (in yellow) in Danang April 9, according to a photo on a local Facebook page. |
“It was just a small act; anyone would have done the same,” Thanh said.
But coming amid instances of officers demanding bribes, getting into fights with the public, and, recently, spitting at a woman who refused to let him enter her house to check, Thanh’s act has been praised by many Facebook users.
Danang got 1.27 million foreign tourists last year, up by a third from the previous year.
