Boston Cabbie Finds $187,000 Left In Back Seat, Returns It To Owner
A Boston cabbie is being hailed as a Good Samaritan after finding a staggering sum of money – $187,000 in cash – in the back of his cab, and then promptly returning it, The Boston Herald is reporting.
The cabbie, whose name is not being released, had picked up a male passenger in the city and driven him to his destination. After the passenger got out, the cabbie noticed that the passenger had left a backpack in the back of the taxi. The cabbie opened the backpack, hoping to find some kind of identification or something that could lead him to the owner’s identity. Instead, he found almost $200,000.
“The cab driver looked in the backpack to look for ID, found the money and brought it straight over to HQ.”
So why was a passenger carrying around almost $2oo,ooo in cash? According to McGuire, it was the passenger’s inheritance money.
“It seems this guy has come into his inheritance and left it in the cab.”
It’s not clear, as of this writing, why the passenger chose to take out his inheritance in cash and carry it around in a backpack.
Nevertheless, the passenger was able to reclaim his money thanks to the Good Samaritan cabbie.
“He had proof that it was his, he had the trust agreement, he provided the proof the money was his. Thank goodness for the honest cab driver.”
This is not the first time this month someone has found a ridiculous amount of money that wasn’t theirs and returned it to its rightful owner. Earlier this month, according to this Inquisitr report, a Syrian refugee living in Germany found €150,000 (that is, about $166,000 USD) — hidden in an old wardrobe that had been donated to him. The man, identified only as Muhannad M., refused to keep the money, saying that doing so would violate his religious beliefs.
“Allah would never allow me to finance my own interests with someone else’s wealth.”
Muhannad turned the money in to the cops; as of this writing, it’s not clear if the money’s rightful owner has been found. Muhannad will get some benefit from his lucky find; German law allows him a 3 percent finder’s fee, meaning he’ll get €4,500 (about $4,981).
For example, in 2015, according to ABC News, a homeless man in Canada found $2,400 CDN and immediately took it to a police station. After word of his selfless actions hit the media, supporters set up a GoFundMe account to raise $2,400 to give to him. It was up to Constable Alex Bérubé of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to find him — which he eventually did, at a soup kitchen called Our Place. And when the constable tried to give the unnamed homeless man his money, the policeman was stunned by his reaction.
“His response surprised me yet again, when instead of asking how to collect it, he asked me how to donate it to Our Place and other food service providers for people in need.”
And according to a 2014 Daily Mail report, three New York men bought a $20 couch from a resale shop. Once they got it home, they found that the couch had been stuffed with $41,000 in cash hidden in envelopes. They, too, returned the money, once they saw that one of the envelopes had a woman’s name on it. It turns out that the woman was an elderly widow, whose husband had given her the money so she could have something to live on after he died.
As of this writing, it is not clear if the Boston cabbie who found a backpack full of money has been given a reward.
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