Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/02/21
By: C.P. Liu and Flor Wang
Taipei, Feb. 21 (CNA) A Finnish man has been placed by police in a shelter in
Photo courtesy of Taipei Police
Taipei’s Wenshan District after he was found sleeping at a bus station in Neihu.
The 40-year-old man from Finland was taken in late Saturday by police who acted on a tipoff reporting that a suspicious foreign national was sleeping in cold conditions at a bus station on Zhishan Road Section 3 in Neihu District.
The man told police that he arrived in Taiwan for tourism on Jan. 26 and was scheduled to fly back to Finland on March. 30. But he said he had used up his money and was wandering the streets.
After being taken back to the Xishan Police Station, the penniless and hungry Finnish man took a shower and was treated to a bowl of warm instant noodles. [FULL STORY]
