New York cabbie tracks down owner of $21,000 left on back seat

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Source: the guardian

Mohammad Asadujjaman's mother may not have schooled him in the quickest routes through the mean streets of the Big Apple or the best ways to negotiate with its famously plain-speaking inhabitants.

But she does appear to have imbued the 28-year-old New York taxi driver with an even greater gift: incorruptible honesty.

On finding that an Italian tourist had left a handbag containing more than $21,000 (£13,000) in cash - not to mention jewellery worth thousands more - on his backseat on Christmas Eve, the Bangladesh-born cabbie knew exactly what to do.

He rummaged through the bag until he found an address in Long Island. Then he rang a friend with a car and embarked on a 50-mile trip in the hope of handing over his find to someone who knew his fare, 72-year-old Felicia Lettieri from Pompeii. When his knocks at the house belonging to Lettieri's sister, Francesca, went unanswered, Asadujjaman left his mobile number and a note reading: "Don't worry, Felicia … I'll keep it safe."


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/new-york-taxi-honest

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fantastic.

[BlueJazz]

1. Awww...it's always good to hear stories like this. Reminds me that there ARE people..

...who truly care about society and others.. :)

...and not everyone is like the Bankers and Teabaggers....

[NJCher]

2. very cool

Last week one of my workout buddies at the gym got a phone call from the gym's secretary. She said she had an ATM card with her name at the desk. It had been found on the gym floor and someone turned it in.

My friend had just refinanced her house and there was something like 45k in the account, all ready for a kitchen renovation. The people at the gym went to the trouble of entering her name into the system to find the department she worked in so they could notify her department to contact her about getting the card back.

And this happened in NEW JERSEY! :)

So yes, it is indeed nice to read these stories.


Cher

[Tace]

3. Heartwarming And Inspiring Story

This is such a beautiful story. It gives me hope.

[COLGATE4]

4. It's just a ploy

by another goddamned A-Rab who's undoubtedly a sleeper agent (MOHAMMED!!!) to fool us into believing that they're actually people just like us. Can't fool this MERKIN. (Hopefully, sarcasm icon not needed...)

[doc03]

5. Could that guy been a Muslim, maybe they should

check that bag for a bomb.:sarcasm:

[nyy1998]

6. When I read this headline, I thought it was Cash Cab-related story

THis is a nice story indeed.

[Moosepoop]

7. He even turned down a reward!

Kudos to him and his mother -- she raised him right.

[Ticonderoga]

8. What kind of

a dumbass leaves $21,000.00 plus thousands of dollars of jewlery on the seat of a cab. I guess they have some good ass weed in NYC.

[ChicagoSuz219]

9. It was a 70-something year old lady... Be nice. n/t