Via the Herald Tribune:

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

Hours after Osman Chowdhury, a native of Bangladesh, had 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. Osman reluctantly accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while tracking her down.

Chowdhury said he never even thought of keeping the gems.

“All my life, I tried to be honest,” he said. “Today is no different.”

“I’m proud of what I did so that people know New York taxi drivers are honest,” he said.

Chowdhury picked up the woman at a hotel in midtown Manhattan and drove her to an apartment building several blocks away. She gave him $20 to pay the fare and asked for $9 back, and he discovered the bag hours later.

“I saw flashing, and I said, ‘Oh my God! Diamonds!’” Chowdhury recalled. “I was shocked. I was trembling.”

He and the dispatchers at his taxi company found a small luggage tag with a Texas telephone number they called — the home of the woman’s mother in Dallas.

The woman, who said she was a jeweler and asked that her name not be made public, got back the gems on Monday.

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Yeah she asked that her name not be made public cause she’s a cunt who tipped 30 cents on an $11 buck fare and then, when her 30 grand in diamonds is MIRACULOUSLY returned, she gave the guy $100? Cheap. Ass. Bitch.