35억을, 택시 기사가..

손님이 두고 내린 자그마한 지퍼가 달린 주머니를 줏어 앞 자리에 두고

다른 손님을 모셔다 주고 점심 먹어러가서 화장실에 가면서 동료기사에게

그게 뭔지 좀 열어보라했더니투명란 프라스틱 통에 100개의 다이어몬가 들어

있는 데 35억원어치라고. 마침 그 주머니 속에 핸펀 청구서가 있었기에 전화해서

돌려주었다는 데, 이 멋쟁이 택시 기시양반 두 아이의 아버지고 임신 중에 있는

와이프가 다이어몬드를 그렇게 좋와했는 데 그는 원래 그 상태 그대로 두고

아무런 관심을 나타내지 않았다고. 미국의 택시 기사님이 어느 나라 잘난 정치하는

넘들보다훨 훨 깨끗하고 멋지다

Calif. Cabbie Finds $350,000 in Diamonds

Fri Nov 18, 9:31 AM ET

LOS ANGELES - Haider Sediqi didn't give much thought to the small, zippered pouch that a passenger

forgot in his taxicab when he got out at Los Angeles International Airport.

Sediqi stashed the brown bag in the front, where it remained as he took his Checker cab to the car wash,

drove a passenger to Long Beach and met a fellow cabbie for lunch Wednesday.

As he walked off to the restroom, Sediqi asked his friend to check the bag for identification.

"Oh, God," Sediqi, 40, recalled his friend saying as he stared into the bag. "Look at those things."

Inside, packed in clear plastic cases were diamonds ? about 100 of them, cut and polished and worth,

it turned out, $350,000. Also inside was a cell phone bill.

Sediqi, a father of two with a pregnant wife, called the number, trying to sound nonchalant.

"Um, did you leave anything?" the Afghan immigrant asked the man who answered, according to

the Los Angeles Times. "Oh, my God," the voice on the phone responded, according to a story in Friday's

newspaper. Sediqi arranged to meet the man, identified as Eric Austein, who had not yet departed LAX for New York,

at the airport police station. Police inventoried the diamonds and confirmed Austein's identity. Austein calmly

took possession of the gems, hugged Sediqi and promised him a reward.

Sediqi said keeping the loot never entered his mind, even though his wife loves diamonds and he dreams of

opening a restaurant.

"God is up there," he said Thursday as he waited outside an auto shop, where his cab was having its brakes

fixed. "He always watches."