Diamonds Diamonds and More Diamonds in L.A. - Honesty Story #5
January 26th, 2007
You probably think this story is about The Red Carpet and diamond-studded celebrities, it certainly would be my first guess. Well, this story is about diamonds, but they were nowhere near The Red Carpet, they were probably closer to a rubber floor mat in a taxi cab. An NBC news story tells about a passenger taking a cab to the Los Angeles Airport (LAX) in California and leaving behind a brown bag with $350,000 worth in diamonds. (I usually save the brown bags for lunch. Then again, you never know, he might of had his lunch in there as well, especially now that in-flight service rarely serves anything but peanuts or chips).
This passenger must have been quite in a hurry to catch his flight. I mean, why else would you forget the brown bag? The honest Afghanistan-born taxi driver, Haider Sadiqi noticed the bag, found a business card in the bag and called the owner. According to the story, the owner of the diamonds hadn’t even noticed he was missing the bag of diamonds. Honest Haider Sadiqi didn’t even think of keeping the diamonds; his honesty was worth much more than $350,000 worth in diamonds.
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1. Allison | January 29th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
People always leave things in the cab. I once left a pair of sun glasses and the taxi company called me AND dropped them off at my house… I’m felt very lucky. Next time I’m carrying around a bag of diamonds I’m going to skip the police escort and just take a taxi!
2. Honesty Blog :: Sharing H&hellip | January 30th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
[…] shows another side of taxi drivers you might have not know about. Last week, I wrote about the honest taxi driver in L.A. that returned $350,000 in diamonds. This week, I’m writing about the results of a […]
3. honestyadmin | February 24th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Allison, these stories are definitely very favorably for taxi drivers. I am glad to hear you got your sunglasses back. I knew a lot of people lose sunglasses, but I wasn’t aware until I wrote Honesty Story # 4 that millions of sunglasses are lost each year. You can see some pretty crazy statistics I posted here http://honestyblog.com/2007/01/25/lost-oakley-sunglasses-honesty-story-4/
4. Bryan | March 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
…LOL…
You are super lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, alot of people are SO SO SO forgetful, always leave things behind!!!!!!!!!!!
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