Posted on 01/12/2005 2:35:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
A woman who left her purse in a taxi got it back — with $13,300 inside — thanks to a Long Island cabby, the cab company said.
The passenger who got into Glenn Scher's cab with two companions outside St. Catherine's Hospital in Commack at 2 a.m. Sunday had just lost her husband, who died after he suffered a heart attack the day before, a dispatcher at Lindy's Taxi said yesterday.
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Why is she carrying $13K of cash around?
Her husband died the day before. Maybe she visited the safe deposit box or had the cash for some reason related to his death.
I am sure the government is asking the same question. After all, it is illegal to carry that much cash around, isn't it?
Not the last time I checked. However, some might consider it inadvisable in New York.
I was being marginally sarcastic. You can't go into the bank and get that amount of money in cash from your account without the government being notified.
I see. The little old lady sounds a tad vulnerable to be carrying that kind of cash around in the big city. I suppose it's none of my business as you say but I wouldn't do it.
I thought that if the BATF caught anyone with that much cash they'd take the money, throw you in jail, jail the cabbie, and confiscate the cab.
May God heap his blessings on the cabbie and all his house.
Maybe she doesn't trust banks. There are still some people like that around.
Cash is so yesterday.
It's her money so she has every right to carry it around. There is nothing illegal about it.
The government will check into why an American is driving a cab.
Has to be an alias.
What an amazing story. Not the part about the money being returned, the part about there still being an English speaking cabbie in New York.
LOL! Worthy of Letterman!
AC
Interesting to see that the cabbie is also the deli guy at my local supermarket.
Let me answer that for you. When her husband died, the account would be frozen,a soon as the bank found out. So she hopped a cab over to the bank, emptied out the account..without telling the bank that he was dead. Happens every day..
Makes sense.
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