Ugh, we hate when this happens! Here’s the story as told by the WSJ:
John James didn’t realize he had left more than $100,000 of jewelry and other valuables in the back seat of a taxi until he reached for his bag to show off the treasured photographs he’d taken with a few of his late friends: the actress Sylvia Sidney, writer Dominick Dunne and broadcaster Alistair Cooke.
Mr. James had just returned to his apartment Sunday afternoon from an office near Madison Square Park, where he’d picked up a tote bag holding the photographs, just over $200 in cash and the jewelry. He said he planned to carry them on the Amtrak Acela train that night to a bank in Delaware, where his family has two homes.
When Mr. James realized his mistake, he said he felt “complete shock and disbelief.” He called a friend who had worked in city government who told him to stay calm, they’d find the bag. Crucially, Mr. James had taken his receipt from the driver, Zubiru Jalloh.
We won’t keep you in suspense he did end up getting his bag back and gave the cab driver a $1,000 reward but you can read the whole tale HERE.
If you found the bag would you return it?
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Yes, I would return it, especially if I know who it belongs to. The only way I wouldn’t return it is if there was no way to do so. I’ve lost items that were of little to no value to anyone else but of major sentimental value to me and could have easily been returned but they weren’t. So I can only imagine how it would feel to loose something valuable. I also know someone who found & kept a very expensive bracelet that one of their clients lost in their office. And shortly thereafter my friend lost a whole lot more than what the value of that bracelet could ever cover.
This guy has soo much money he is just careless with it.
i can’t even imagine having $100,000 in valuables let alone leaving it in the back seat of a cab!
As a cabbie, that would more than likely come back to bite you if you didn’t (YOU’RE FIRED!!! YOU’RE UNDER ARREST!!!), as a patron, you’d practically be stealing it if you removed it from the cab and didn’t enter the cab with it.
I’d return it, if there was any way to. Had it been hundred thou CASH… let me get back to you on that… naaaw actually, It would seem too much like a set-up, a bait car or something… wind up on worlds stupidest criminals trying to justify to Chris Hansen why you put a couple bundles in your pockets and tried to flee the scene… I’m good, thanks.