NYC cabbie returns bag of diamond rings

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Doesn't want her name in the media?

Can anybody spell HOT DIAMONDS?

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Doesn't want her name in the media?

Can anybody spell HOT DIAMONDS?

c-u-b-i-c

z-i-r-c-o-n-i-a

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in a related story:

Wash. cabbie returns $6,000 left in car

LYNNWOOD, Wash. - A taxi driver found a wallet containing almost $6,000 in the back of his car, then raced to the airport in time to return it to his owner.

Vinod Mago, 55, says he never thought twice. The owner thanked him with $100, which Mago used to take his family out for dinner.

"My mother always said, 'If you're an honest person, you will always have money in your pocket,'" said Mago, who drives a Seattle-Tacoma International Taxi Association cab.

Mago had just started his shift Feb. 1 when taxi coordinator Stanley Lal called to say a man identified only as Peter was missing his wallet. Mago pulled over and found the wallet, stuffed with bills totaling $5,950.

The man, who was planning to buy a car with the cash, said, "'That's my life savings!'" said Lal, who was rewarded with $20.

Months ago, Mago found $640 in his taxi and returned that money, too.

"If money doesn't belong to me, I don't keep it," Mago said. "I know God is watching everybody, every second."

On Monday, a cabdriver in New York returned a bag containing 31 diamond rings to a passenger who had left it in a trunk. The passenger had tipped the driver 30 cents on an $11 fare.

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a far better tip (proportionally) than the previous story.

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I don't want to defend someone who gave a $0.30 tip, but being jeweler doesn't mean that the diamonds are yours, and that you are therefore wealthy. (Especially if you leave your wares in taxi cabs.)

I agree -- a jeweler might have access to (and be carrying) different types of jewelry, including diamonds, but that doesn't necessarily mean they belonged to her. Of course, even if the diamonds were for her business or a client or whatever/whoever, you'd still think she would give a better tip than what she gave the cabbie.