A Los Angeles taxi driver distinguished himself by his honesty after finding a pouch filled with diamonds worth 350,000 dollars in the back of his cab, police said.
At first, Afghan immigrant Haider Sediqi, 40, paid little attention when he found the small brown pouch in the back of his car after dropping off a fare at Los Angeles airport on Wednesday.
But later in the day, Sediqi’s jaw dropped when he opened the pouch to discover a series of clear plastic boxes filled with a fortune in cut diamonds, carefully mounted in Styrofoam.
The honest cabbie, a father of two who immigrated to the United States in the 1990s, immediately called police and handed over the king’s ransom in precious stones.
Tough one, eh? I must admit, I might have kept them, or, at least some of them. To have a bag of diamonds in ones hands can be powerful. Of course, this is theoretical.
What would you do?
In a fit of link whorage, posted over at Common Sense Runs Wild (since Janette is no longer typing with one hand) and Basil’s Breakfast
I like to think I’d do the right thing.
I’d return them without a moment’s thought. I did when I found a pile of cash in a rental car trunk — it ended up being from a bank robbery. I never did figure out why someone would rent a car, rob a bank, and then leave the money they stole in the trunk…