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Filed Under (NY Life) by APK on 08-02-2007
NEW YORK: A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who had earlier paid him a 30 cent tip on an $11 ride.
Hours after Osman Chowdhury, a native of Bangladesh, had dropped off the passenger, he tracked her down through a flurry of phone calls and returned the bag, which she had left in the taxi’s trunk.
The unidentified woman, who said she was a jeweler, offered a $100 reward. Osman reluctantly accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while tracking her down.
Chowdhury said he never even thought of keeping the gems.
“All my life, I tried to be honest,” he said. “Today is no different.”
“I’m proud of what I did so that people know New York taxi drivers are honest,” he said.
Chowdhury picked up the woman at a hotel in midtown Manhattan and drove her to an apartment building several blocks away. She gave him $20 to pay the fare and asked for $9 back, and he discovered the bag hours later.
“I saw flashing, and I said, ‘Oh my God! Diamonds!’” Chowdhury recalled. “I was shocked. I was trembling.”
He and the dispatchers at his taxi company found a small luggage tag with a Texas telephone number they called — the home of the woman’s mother in Dallas.
The woman, who said she was a jeweler and asked that her name not be made public, got back the gems on Monday.
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Yeah she asked that her name not be made public cause she’s a cunt who tipped 30 cents on an $11 buck fare and then, when her 30 grand in diamonds is MIRACULOUSLY returned, she gave the guy $100? Cheap. Ass. Bitch.
** Airports, Gor, Shakes the Kid.
I agree! That stupid bitch needs to give up more than $100! How can people be so stupid? That guy doesn’t even OWN the cab, he rents it! I swear, I wish he would’ve kept them…he deserves them more than she does!
I agree that the diamond dealing lady is certainly an over the top, parsimonious, individual; however, if possible, I would like you to pass my email address on to the extremely moral and high minded cabbie. I have no idea what kind of a contractor he was in his home land, but I might try to create a similar position for him wherein he would have a percentage of ownership with the intention of him owning the entire project somewhere in the future.
David – I emailed you. Good luck!
This gal was not distracted or poor just cheap. What comes around goes around and I’d say she should expect it in a BIG WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!