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Honest taxi driver reaps rewards

Hundreds of Argentines have been donating to a taxi driver who found a bag with $32,500 (£21,600) in cash in his taxi and returned it to its owners. The donations started after a website was set up in his honour calling for gestures of gratitude for what is seen as an extraordinary act of honesty. So far the equivalent of $14,580 has been donated, according to the site.

Santiago Gori, a taxi driver in the coastal city of La Plata, found the money after driving an elderly couple. They only went a short distance but when he dropped them off, they left a bag in the back of his taxi. A few days later he managed to locate his passengers again and he returned the bag.

For Argentines used to corruption at all levels of society, this was an extraordinary story. Two young advertising agency employees decided to set up a website to thank Mr Gori further for his exemplary behaviour. Now thousands of people have accessed the site and have left hundreds of rewards and messages for Mr Gori.

One visitor offered to produce in his studio a song chosen by Mr Gori to kick-start a potential artistic career. Another offered a snow-boarding lesson in Argentina's ski resort of Bariloche, while an Argentine abroad promised to bring back a second-hand GPS satellite for his taxi on his return.

"Thank you", say many of the messages and one said it all: "I wish more people were like you." For his part, Mr Gori seems a bit bemused. He said he only did what had to be done - and that he does not quite know what to do with all the things he has been offered.

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IDFIMH

What happened about that london taxi driver who vanished with a bag of cash (£70K?) left by a passenger about .........many years ago, maybe ten years?

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

He is now driving a tx2 a light blue grey one

something tells me thats a hidden dig, not well hidden though...

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

A driver should be honest, I hear all the time about lost phones being sold on instead of taken to the police or held until the owner has the chance to ring for it, I've had 35 quid in rewards for 3 phones this year alone, you don't always get anything more than a thanks but the good guy message is still there all the same.

Who me

I used to throw mobile phones out the window, got fed up with making myself busy and giving them back and not even getting a thank you!

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stressed controller!!!

About 15 years ago a guy who used to work with us picked this woman up from a factory, we did this same run every Friday morning. It was a wages run for the workers, this lad picked the woman up took her to the bank and back to the factory. When he got back to the rank a passenger got in the back and said to the driver there's a package on the floor, the driver picked it up and looked inside, there was a wad of notes inside the package.

This woman phoned up and asked if she's dropped a package in the car? The radio op shouted the driver who said yes he's got it at the side of him. He took it back to the factory where this woman was waiting outside the gates, she said I didn't know wheather I'd dropped it outside the cab or inside. She just grabbed the package of money and walked off without a thankyou no money given to the driver for taking it back no nothing.

When he got back to the rank we tried to work it out how much was in the package? We got to £8,000

You will get your rewards in heaven











im damn sure you wont get it here+now.........

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Similar case a long time back, driver found a wallet with over a grand in it, bloke rang for it, driver returned it and the bloke took it in one hand and turned his back on the driver without so much as a thankyou and carried on his convo with whoever he was in company with.


It makes you feel like why did I bother, but just because of one pig of a person it shouldn't make you think they are all the same, I also returned one with about 60 notes in one night, guy couldn't thank me enough as it was his rent and what he had to live on for the week, I declined a reward under the circumstances, but still got something for it knowing he didn't end up up the creek for a week.


@ Rambo, my mate picked a bloke up who was a complete pain, anyway bloke leaves phone in car, bloke realises and rings it, mate answers, bloke says I think I've lost my phone in your car, mate says yeah, listen to this, and put it under the back wheel and drove over it, rotflmao.

Can't you get money for them via the likes of www.fonebank.com/

That is of course if you can't find the owner and you don't have a police station to return them to.

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IDFIMH

A light blue grey one?

What colour is that then Skippy?

Is this one of the new Metrocab colours?

The same colour as the one in your avatar

I may be wrong but i get the impression that those with the money intend to hang onto it, the jobs ive had from the biggest houses with the most merc saloons on the drive tip the least, the only "sir" ive carried obviously forgot his wallet, yet the elderly, and (for want of a better word) "common" passenger usually slips a few quid....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip

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We charge £5 to return mobiles to customers, if they dont want to pay they can collect it from the police station the next day, most pay the £5

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now a licensed hackney driver