14 January 2010

Taxi driver returns $21,000 left in cab

NEW YORK - A Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City has gone out of his way to track down the person who left thousands of dollars in cash in the back of his cab.

Mukul Asadujjaman, a medical student, drove nearly 80km to an address he found with the money.

He left his phone number when he found no one at home.

The money belonged to an Italian grandmother visiting the US.

Asadujjaman was offered a reward, but he turned it down saying that as a devout Muslim he could not accept it.

Felicia Lettieri, of Pompeii, Italy, and six relatives had taken two cabs on Christmas Eve, Newsday newspaper reported.

Mrs Lettieri, 72, left her handbag behind, with more than US$21,000 of the group's travelling money, jewellery worth thousands more, and some of their passports.

Her sister, Francesca Lettieri, 79, of Long Island, said the honest driver had saved her family's vacation.

A gracious Asadujjaman was quoted by the newspaper as saying that he may be broke, but he was also honest.

"My mother is my inspiration. She always said to be honest and work hard."

Source: BBC
 

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• amazing
  
  

  how kind and honest was that taxi driver...good on you and i hope that family that lost the money find some way to reward this...its an inspiration to us all..

  By sharon bowen, Thursday, January 14, 2010