Would you return a bag of diamond rings?

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Be honest if you were this cabbie what would you have done? I hope I would have the moral strength and courage to do what he did. I don’t believe there are many people who would do as he did. His story deserves a lot of publicity.

A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.

Hours after Osman Chowdhury dropped off the passenger, he tracked her down through a flurry of phone calls and returned the bag, which she had left in the taxi’s trunk.

The unidentified woman, who said she was a jeweler, offered a $100 reward.

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Yes, I’d like to think I would return them. I’m a big believer in what comes around, goes around. If I decided to keep the rings & sell them on ebay for oddles of money & buy a huge fancy house with the $ I made, the house would burn to the ground with all my wordly possessions two weeks later. It’s sort of Divine Justice in my mind.

Good for the cabbie! 👍
 
Yup :yup: Wouldn’t even think twice.

Pragmatically, there’s really no anonymous way you could get rid of or cash in a bag of diamonds (I’m no crime lord therefore no henchmen or secret accounts) and/or they may belong to people who may not be so nice and may REALLY want it back if you know what I mean (maybe I’ve watched too many mob movies).

But honestly I know just enough to know that committing this kind of sin would haunt me for a very long time and cause too much trouble in my life.

Not worth it.
 
Pragmatically again, there’s no way the customer wouldn’t have retraced their steps and figured out pretty quick smart if the cabbie had tried to pocket the diamonds.
 
Good old Catholic guilt!
Or heightened conscience maybe?
In any case, I’d HAVE to return it or never be able to sleep well again in my life.
It’s so heartening to know that there are still people like Osman Chowdhury in this world.
 
Be honest if you were this cabbie what would you have done?
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A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.
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Hours after Osman Chowdhury dropped off the passenger, he tracked her down through a flurry of phone calls and returned the bag, which she had left in the taxi’s trunk.
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The unidentified woman, who said she was a jeweler, offered a $100 reward.
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I would have done exactly what he did.

Property is property. No one has the right to steal unless they are very hungry. In English law, it is not unlawful for a person in extreme poverty in urgent need of sustenance, to steal a loaf of bread. But this is not a loaf of bread. He had no option but to do what he did. Good he had the strength to do the right thing 👍
 
You would have to turn in those rings.

Reminds me of a time when my family and I were at a department store and we just found $50 lying on the floor right in the aisle.

We could have easily picked it up and pocketed it to spend on our whim, but we dare not! We turned it in and gave our names to the person at the store and thought nothing of it.

A week later, we got a call telling us that no one had come forward to claim it so they gave the money to us anyway! We gave it to charity…
 
Lance said:
Be honest if you were this cabbie what would you have done?
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I know I wouldn’t have kept it. But I would have been much more likely to turn it into police than actually track the woman down myself.
 
I would absolutely return the rings. They are not mine. If for some reason I could not locate the owner, I would turn them over to the police.

Neither the size of the tip nor the amount of any monetary reward would factor into my decision to return them. If I were the one who lost them I would hope that the person who found them would return them.
 
Lance said:
Be honest if you were this cabbie what would you have done? I hope I would have the moral strength and courage to do what he did. I don’t believe there are many people who would do as he did. His story deserves a lot of publicity.

A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.

Without a doubt…yes.

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I would return the rings. They don’t belong to me. Think how panicked and sick the owner of the rings must have felt when it was discovered that the rings were not with him or her!:eek:
 
Charybdis said:
You would have to turn in those rings.

Reminds me of a time when my family and I were at a department store and we just found $50 lying on the floor right in the aisle.

We could have easily picked it up and pocketed it to spend on our whim, but we dare not! We turned it in and gave our names to the person at the store and thought nothing of it.

A week later, we got a call telling us that no one had come forward to claim it so they gave the money to us anyway! We gave it to charity…
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Yeah, I did that too, although I was a broke college student and kept the money after the two weeks. Now, I’d do that-- give it to charity. At the time thinking as a broke college student, ‘boy, it’d be really nice to have that money, the other person might really need it.’

Firsts things first, I wouldn’t give it a second thought. Mainly because if I actually did give it a second thought, I might be tempted to keep it, and then if I did give it back, I might feel I lost something. Best thing to do, is to directly at the first chance work of returning it. After all if it was me, I’d like it returned too.
 
I truly believe most people would do the right thing here. The more difficult challenge might be if it were say a $20 bill that was left on the floor of the cab. Would you ask the cabbie if it was his or would you just pocket it and consider yourself lucky?
 
StCsDavid said:
I truly believe most people would do the right thing here. The more difficult challenge might be if it were say a $20 bill that was left on the floor of the cab. Would you ask the cabbie if it was his or would you just pocket it and consider yourself lucky?
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If it were in the backseat I would assume that the person prior dropped it - and since he is long gone, I’d consider myself lucky.
 
I would be awfully tempted but in the end I would try and track down the person or surrender it to the police. For the same reason many others have said- it would come back to haunt me for sure!
Does it not seem suspicious to anyone else?? I don’t think jewelry normally travels via taxicab…:confused:
 
Lil_M said:
I would be awfully tempted but in the end I would try and track down the person or surrender it to the police. For the same reason many others have said- it would come back to haunt me for sure!
Does it not seem suspicious to anyone else?? I don’t think jewelry normally travels via taxicab…:confused:
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It was NYC, taxis are common. If I was going to move it from place to place, such as store to store, or wholesale to retail, and there were only a few, I think there are times I’d much rather keep them on me, than to put them in the hands of another to ship.
 
I am impressed that the cabie went to the trouble of finding her because if someone left me a 30cent tip i don’t know if i would hunt them down. I would turn the rings into the police and let them handle it.
 
Of course I would return them.

They are not mine.

Just because they can be easily sold (as opposed to documents detailing a future business strategy) does not make them any more ‘up for grabs’.

God Bless!
 
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