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Cabbie finds £9,000 in taxi

PEOPLE leave rubbish in the back of taxis all the time. So when a passenger told cabbie Trevor Hamilton there was a Sainsbury's bag in the back of his car he planned to throw it away. But a quick glance into the bag "just in case" revealed £9,000 in cash, left by a forgetful elderly man earlier that day.

Trevor, a cabbie for 28 years who works for United Taxis in Bournemouth, said: "I have had a lot of things left in my taxis over the years, but this just about tops it all. "I was about a minute away from throwing it away, but I thought I would just have a quick check inside in case it was anything important."

Trevor immediately contacted the office where staff alerted police and delivered the bag, which also contained a cheque book, to Bournemouth police station. Checks revealed the passenger, who was picked up from the rank in Boscombe and taken to his home in Southbourne on Thursday, had "written off" the cash.

"Apparently he didn't expect to get it back because he didn't know where he had left it," said Trevor. "The police have now given him back the money." It is thought that the man had made the trip to Boscombe to draw the money out of the bank.

Trevor picked the man up at around noon but the bag was not spotted until late in the afternoon when he was on his way to a job at a school.

"The child has an escort and it was the escort that spotted the bag," he said. "I thought it probably just had some fruit or vegetables in it and I was going to get rid of it. It is a good job I checked."

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IDFIMH

reminds me of the time i found someone had left a Marks and Sparks carrier bag on the back seat, i had a look inside the bag, inside was a half eaten sandwich

anyway i thought i will just leave it on the seat, i must have had 3 more customers pass through and no one picked it up or mentioned it to me

the next lot of passengers, 2 young lads got in, i heard the bag being gathered up, they paid the fare then got out with the bag [booty]

I hope this honest cabbie gets a decent thank you from the gentleman who lost this large amount of cash. Or if his memory is as bad as it would appear then he may just forget he ever lost it? lol

Regards

JD

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