Saturday, October 13, 2012

Vegas taxi driver finds $221,510 in his cab, and returns it to the owner

A Las Vegas cab driver from Ethiopia found nearly a quarter of a million dollars in his taxi and was able to get it back to its rightful owner.

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A Las Vegas cab driver from Ethiopia found nearly a quarter of a million dollars in his taxi and was able to get it back to its rightful owner.

A cabdriver's honesty shined as bright as the lights on the Las Vegas Strip. Adam Woldemarim found close to a quarter-million dollars when cleaning his taxi — and returned it. You talkin' to him about thoughtfulness?
A passenger supposedly forgot his black laptop case filled with $221,510 in winnings from the Wynn casino in Sin City.
“I have never seen that much money in real life – just in the movies. When I saw it I was shocked,” Woldemarim told the Daily News.
Woldemarim, 42, from Ethiopia, brought the cash to his cab company's security office.
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"That's not my money," he told NBC News, explaining why he would not have felt justified in keeping the cash for himself.
He continued working for about an hour, when he was called back to the office.
A young man contacted the cab company claiming the money. The man tipped Woldemarim $2,000, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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Adam Woldemarim, a Las Vegas cab driver, found nearly a quarter of a million dollars in cash in his back seat and turned it into his company’s lost and found department. Here he shows the receipt from his cab company’s security office.

Although Woldemarim was happy — he did not expect any bonus that night — his friends are not impressed with that they consider a measly reward.
"That's all?" a fellow cabdriver asked. "How about 10 percent, at least? That's $20,000!"
But another one of Woldemarim's friends, Alex Alebachew, thinks the story of Woldemarim's decency alone can help challenge stereotypes about immigrants.
"[A] lot of people think foreign cabdrivers like us abuse tourists or they long haul their customers or we're just here causing problems and we don't belong here," Alebachew lamented. "They never see the good side to us, the honest side."
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Woldemarim came to the United States seven years ago. He was one of 3,000 Ethiopians to receive a U.S. government visa via a lottery, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
He works five or six days each week to earn $350. His friends and family in Ethiopia have asked him whether the $2,000 tip will go far.
"I'm not living in Ethiopia anymore," he replied. "I'm in America."
But Woldemarim does not regret anything. He is simply glad he did the right thing.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vegas-cabbie-finds-221k-taxi-returns-article-1.1179412#ixzz29A1cSumE

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