Vegas cabbie, wanting 'to do the right thing,' turns in $300,000 left behind by gambler - U.S. News

This guy and his wife obviously had great parents. When he turned in the money and called to tell his wife, his wife told him that she was very proud of him.

good for him!

though a small correction, the guy is Filipino
No doubt he had plenty of Mom and Apple Pie as a lad anyway


EDIT- honestly, im not that impressed. The guy works for a cab company in vegas and has for years. A customer leaves a bag with a huge sum of cash in it. Were he to steal that money, there is no way it wouldnt blow back on him, plus you have to assume that a bag of cash like that might also be connected to an unlicensed firearm and people who don't take kindly to letting their cab driver have a 300k tip.

I think anyone but a drifter or crack head would turn in the cash in a traceable situation like having picked the guy up in a marked cab. Anyone who couldn't vanish next day with it, which would be most legitimate people. Id be really impressed if he found it on the street and did the same thing

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Kudos to him!

And good for the cab company for rewarding his honesty. I hope that absent minded poker player gave him a nice finder's fee on top of that.

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I have not had time to confirm, but on the radio this morning they said he is an American, who came to this country LEGALLY in 1984.

Excellent, good transitional time for him to show up and become an American. In those days you got a picture of Nancy Reagan AND Joan Mondale until mom was officially decided, BUT you did get an entire apple pie from both parties hoping you liked their mom better.

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Regardless of his motives and actions, which are quite commendable, this did have to be at the back of his mind.

To see what the results of stealing from the Mob can lead to watch The Bank Job from 2008. Rather gruesome in parts, and based on a true story.

Good for him. A Great Philipino-American person.

I am thinking though that you'd have to be pretty dumb to try and keep the money given it's source. Not only that I'll bet a cabby gig in Vegas if you're customer service oriented and have a good route could be pretty lucrative long term. Lotsa cash.

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And lets not forget that as an immigrant legal or not you can be kicked out of the country in a heart beat when breaking the law and offenses can be tiny. Every immigrant knows this.

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You hardly ever hear about the ones that keep that bag of dough . . . wallet, laptop, drug stash . . . coincidence?

I agree with you 100%.

Unless one (anyone) was to turn-in cash that had absolutely no way to be traced to the finder, would it then be totally worthy of remarkable commendation.

However, I still believe the reward of $1K is appropriate even in light of that fact.

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Looks like he got another $10K from the owner of the money.