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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Solus on January 12, 2010, 09:07:46 AM
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An example of honor
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582830,00.html
PATCHOGUE, New York — A New York City cab driver is being praised for returning over $21,000 lost by a visitor from Italy.
Felicia Lettieri, who's 72, left her purse in a Manhattan taxi on Christmas Eve. It contained traveling money for her and six relatives.
Police told them not to get their hopes up about finding it.
The cabbie drove about 50 miles to a Long Island address he'd found in the purse. No one was home, so he left his phone number, and later returned with the money.
Lettieri's daughter, Maria Rosaria Falonga, told Newsday from Pompei, Italy that the cabbie also left a note.
He told her: "Don't worry, Felicia. ... I'll keep it safe."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me, 'Be honest, work hard and you will raise your station,' " said the driver, Mukul Asaduzzaman, to the N.Y. Post newspaper. He refused a reward.
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Great story. Wonder if he was from India or somewhere like that,....It's a kharma thing...
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It's NY, he's probably a Pakistani.
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Cool story...and something not often seen these days.
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Found a bit more information on this story.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother told me, 'Be honest, work hard and you will raise your station,' " said the driver, Mukul Asaduzzaman, to the N.Y. Post newspaper. He refused a reward.
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Must be a trend... Saturday night I got into a discussion with a driver in Manhattan that wanted to drop us off at the end of the block instead of driving around to put us at our destination (one way (wrong way) cross street). When I told him to drive around he said that he would've, given the weather, but a lot of people would've accused him of trying to run the meter up.... I guess people should start being nicer to cabbies!
-RJP
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good man, but who carries $21,000 at all? i realize they are Italian but...