Taxi Driver Receives $100 Reward

HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese company says it’s lucky an honest man was driving the taxi cab where a forgetful employee left a bag with about $26,500 in the back seat.

The average monthly income in Vietnam is about $80.
ktvu.com

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Sami Rafiq

A good deed or act is something that does not live only for a moment, it travels with time and brings some unforeseen surprises at opportune moments in future life.

This brings to my mind an incident about an impoverished salesman who used to visit our house when I was a child. He had a wife, three daughters and a son to support and a meagre income. So whenever he came to sell eggs or bread that were not urgently needed, my mother would still oblige him by buying them.

His wife and daughters used to come visiting sometimes and my mother would charitably donate to them whatever she could spare. Time sped by and when I had passed out of high school, I learnt that the salesman was no more. Since we too had changed towns so many times, we wondered what had become of his family.
hindustantimes.com

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The next time you hear someone bad-mouthing federal workers as bureaucrats who sit around bemoaning this and that, tell him or her to ask Doug White about Lisa Grimm and Brian Norton.

Grimm, Norton and other air-traffic controllers guided White to safety on April 12, 2009, when the pilot of his plane died during a flight. Grimm, based at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Miami center, and Norton, who was in Fort Myers, are among the controllers that the National Air Traffic Controllers Association planned to honor Monday night in Orlando at its sixth annual awards banquet.

Six of the honorees, including Grimm and Norton, helped White after his pilot, Joe Cabuk, died suddenly while flying White’s King Air 10-seat, two-engine plane in Miami airspace. White owned the plane as an investment; he did not know how to fly it.
washingtonpost.com

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In 2008, Garland was helping to clear out the West Baltimore house of his grandfather, who was moving into a retirement home. The old man had been a sanitation worker, and in his room, Garland found many of the cast-off items he had collected over the years: broken watches, jewelry, other bits and bobs gathered from the streets of Baltimore.

In one box were two rings. One ring was cheap, a costume bauble. The other was a wide gold wedding ring, engraved “COL to WTF,” along with a date in 1956. Garland slipped it into his pocket.

“I said, ‘Maybe I can figure out whose ring this is,’ ” he told me.
washingtonpost.com

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By Rachael Rettner, LiveScience Staff Writer

The warm and fuzzy feelings you may experience after watching others perform virtuous deeds may in turn lead you to act altruistically as well, according to a new study based on the results of two separate experiments.

Among the findings: People who watch inspirational clips from the Oprah Winfrey Show are more likely to commit to helping others, and spend more time doing a “good deed.”
livescience.com

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A Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City has gone out of his way to track down the person who left thousands of dollars in cash in the back of his cab.

Mukul Asadujjaman, a medical student, drove nearly 80kms (50 miles) to an address he found with the money.

He left his phone number when he found no one at home. The money belonged to an Italian grandmother visiting the US.

Mr Asadujjaman was offered a reward, but he turned it down saying that as a devout Muslim he could not accept it.

Felicia Lettieri, of Pompeii, Italy, and six relatives had taken two cabs on Christmas Eve, Newsday newspaper reported.

Mrs Lettieri, 72, left her purse behind, with more than $21,000 of the group’s travelling money, jewellery worth thousands more, and some of their passports.

Her sister, Francesca Lettieri, 79, of Long Island, said the honest driver had saved her family’s vacation.

“We really love what he did,” she said.
bbc.co.uk

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