NEW YORK TAXIS - LOST AND FOUND
New York City cab drivers must think riders would lose their heads if they weren't attached. Every day, passengers leave computers, cell phones, and briefcases behind. But what happens when $33,000 show up on the backseat? Well, if it's the rider's luck day, she gets it back.
That's exactly what happened to an elderly woman who left her entire life savings - in cash - in a sack in a yellow cab. After robbers hit her Harlem apartment for the third time, the 71-year-old vowed that no thieves would get their hands on her money. She believed the best way to guard her cash was to keep it nearby.
That worked for a while. Until the summer evening two years ago when she left a leather bag with $32,849.05 in a taxi. "Dear God," she said to herself. "I don't have a nickel to my name and I don't know what I'll do."
Fortunately, the driver knew exactly what to do. Qurbe Tirmizi, a 20-year-old Pakistani immigrant, had been on the job for only three weeks. But when he noticed the bag on the backseat he drove straight to the police department and turned in the money. Every penny.
Officers went to the woman's apartment to tell her the good news and took her to Central Park precinct, where she got her money and met her Good Samaritan. Tirmizi even turned down a reward. "Just pray that I do well in school," he told the lady. Although the police advised the woman to remain anonymous, stories about Tirmizi's good deed made it into all the media. Incredulous New Yorkers told the tale of the woman, the money and the cabbie all over the city.
(SPEAKUp)
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