oston cabbie is disappointed at $100 reward he received for returning $187,000 left behind in his ta

nydailynews ^ | 5 July 2016 | Al Ng

[DUMBGRUNT]

A co worker said, you need to have a plan, should you find a bag of cash.

[PghBaldy]

That is awfully chintzy.

[Paladin2]

Never let your Sta$h go loose.

[Nifster]

How low we have sunk

Since when is honesty in your personal behavior supposed to get a cash reward?

[Rusty0604]

If he had turned it over to the police they would have just kept it all for suspicious activity.

[Paladin2]

$100 is probably a good hourly rate. $187 may have been better....

[Theodore R.]

He had to return it if the owner had proof it was left there. Of course, it would be one’s word against another, I guess.

[Defiant]

Article said the owner was a homeless guy who just inherited it. I guess he doesn’t have a lot of experience with giving money away.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Typical of today’s society ... the assignment of a “cash value” to honesty.

[bigbob]

And then to publicly bitch about it!

[Mears]

“That is awfully chintzy.”

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That’s being kind.

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[DUMBGRUNT]

A friend who was a teacher, also drove a cab in the evening (~1965).
Before driving he would clean the assigned cab, and then he found a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL!
Walked back, logged the cab back in and went home.

He said it was the best night he ever had!

[Mears]

He DID turn it over to the police.

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[Captainpaintball]

With all due respect to the reporter and the cabbie, he is morally required to return the money. That is it. The idiot who left it behind is not really required to give the cabbie anything in return , especially if it wasn't his money, and he otherwise couldn't afford to give the cabbie ANY amount.

That said, 100 bucks is kinda cheap.

[Rusty0604]

And they didn’t keep it? Or were they the ones that gave him the $100?

[PLMerite]

My first thought was that any guy who would be carrying around $187k would probably have the wherewithal to get a couple of leg breakers to come looking for you.

Then I found out the guy was previously homeless and had just come into all this money (what financial institution would give someone that much cash?) and he’s probably not quite right in the head.

The cabbie probably kept him from blowing it all on booze, dope and hookers for a couple days.

[N9841A]

I agree with the cabbie, what an ungrateful cheapskate.

[Mears]

“Then I found out the guy was previously homeless and had just come into all this money (what financial institution would give someone that much cash?) and he’s probably not quite right in the head.”

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There has GOT to be more to this story.

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[Mase]

Back in the late 70's in the Newark NJ area, a guy was out for an early morning run and found a bag of cash that fell out of the back of a Brinks truck. The bad held $1.1 million in cash that was on its way to be burned. He turned it in and got a $1,000 reward. I remember his interview on television where he told the reporter how disappointed he was in the size of the reward. he expected more. He was a regular guy who worked in a warehouse. A few months later his wife divorced him.

Keep the cash, and the cannolis.

[blueplum]

why didn’t he turn it into the cab company? wouldn’t it have been their property just as much as if the driver found it on the dispatch room floor?