Honesty at it's best.

[GodofDisaster]

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There is good in this world, and this story is proof, of just how honest some people can be.
A Bangladeshi taxi driver working in New York City has gone out of his way to track down the person who left over $21,000 inside his taxi. He drove 80KM (50 miles) just to find the owner. Who was an Italian grandmother visiting America.

Full story can be found in the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8455897.stm
So discussion purposes of this thread, well I have two things I want to discuss.

One: Your Opinion on this man?s deed and would you have done the same? Be honest now.

Two: When was the last time you did something really honest, something that made you think, ?Yeah I?m a really nice guy/girl.?
Answer to the first question: I actually believe that I would have, the heart to do what that man did, although a part of me might consider taking the money, but in the end I would return it. As for my answer to my second question.

Spoiler

I was outside my College, waiting for my lift home. When two black students (I believe they were from Jamaica although I?m not sure,) approached me, claiming that they couldn?t find their class. They also told me how everyone else refused to help them, I wondered why, until a group of sport students drove past, shouting racial slurs. I think the men could tell that I wasn?t pleased about this, which seemed to make them happy.
Anyway on with the story, I kindly offered my assistance to the men, and went with them to find their classroom, they told me the only knowledge they had of the classrooms? location was that it was on the third floor, which is also the one with the most rooms. So it understandable that they couldn?t find it. After about ten minutes searching, one of the men realised that they were in on the wrong day, and apologized for wasting my time. I told them I didn?t mind and even if it was a failed search, I still felt really good about helping them.

 

[delet]

Holy hell, that guy is something else. No way in hell I'd give back 21k if I were to find it on the ground, even if it was an old lady. Hell, I'd keep 2 dollars.

Last thing I've done that was just generally good? ... Uhm, I kept the door open for people? I don't do much...

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I doubt I would have looked for the person or people who lost it, of course if they have that much money just falling out of their pocket(s) imagine how much they have in banks and such.

Nice to hear about a positive story once in a while.

 

[Puzzles]

Yesterday at the chemist I only got charged $1.85 for my medication, I briefly thought about saving myself 183 dollars, but instead told the cashier and paid the full amount. I'm broke, so I think that it was a fairly kind thing to do on my behalf.

 

[Julianking93]

That guy is...well he's just awesome.

Unfortunately, I have never encountered such honesty.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

Well... being that I'm known in my school entirely for the fact that I'm tall, and a gentleman all the nice stuff I've usually done involve the ladies,

Holding doors for people (again mostly the girls)

When someone's trying to get out of the classroom but everyone else just bumps in front of them I let them go before me

Picking up stuff that someone drops

Honestly all the nice stuff I've done is really low on the "Memorable" scale of whether or not someone will remember it but I'm nice. Mostly just to the women since all the guys in my school don't deserve to be treated as "Humans" let alone in a nice way.

 

[Wildrow12]

Yeah, isn't it nice to see that there are heroes in the world?

 

[Kingemoney]

Well there was this one time, I found a college I.D. lying on the ground on campus. I could've just left it there, or taken it and used it to get free food, but instead I found the owner and returned it.

 

[Raven's Nest]

With $21,000 I could set myself up for life. By that I mean pay for college or some other training then move to somewhere like Peru and help kids there...

It'd honestly be a hard decision for me...

I'd probably keep the money and use it to do greater deeds...

 

[ffxfriek]

Holy hell, that guy is something else. No way in hell I'd give back 21k if I were to find it on the ground, even if it was an old lady. Hell, I'd keep 2 dollars.

Last thing I've done that was just generally good? ... Uhm, I kept the door open for people? I don't do much...

GAH. Ninja's are everywhere. So, yea, this is basically what I would do. Yay

i know ninjas here are everywhere. though this is good it doesnt make up for all the bad done.

 

[ShrooM_DoughKiD]

It's good to see that some people are doing good in the world, as for me? nah, I wouldn't've given it back, IMO, if someone is wreckless enough to leave that amount of money laying around, I should have some right ot take it. Last good thing I did? made breakfast for my hungover room mates.

 

[arcainia]

I probably wouldn't have been able to keep it. I just can't take stuff that belong to other people...I sure would love to have 21k though.

As for doing something nice for someone...I can't really remember anything recent. I'm a generally nice person, I believe. A couple days ago I gave up my sit for an old lady with grocery bags and helped her get them on the bus if that counts.

 

[Pariah87]

I wonder what the immigrant haters are saying now? I'd probably do the same with such a large sum of money though, especially given the womens age. Knowing I'd kept it would just guilt me terribly.

If I found a £20 lying in the street however, that I would keep.

As for the last nice thing I did? I spent around 30 minutes chatting to a homeless guy, shared a few cigarettes with him, gave him the change in my pocket. He was just happy someone was taking the time to talk to him, let alone anything else.

 

[DarkLight523]

Knowing my luck, I wouldn't have been able to figure out who the money belonged to.

As for my own experience, I've never been in a situation where honesty was in play as much as my humanity was.

It was the summer after I graduated from high school and I was at a beach party at Salt Creek Beach. The party started around 5ish and went on well past midnight.

When I was pulling out of the parking lot to leave I saw a kid sitting on the curb exiting the parking lot; he couldn't have been more than 16 years old. He was jonesing really bad (My sister is a recovering drug addict so I had seen this kind of shit before). My girlfriend-at-the-time saw the kid and said something like, "That's so sad, I wonder if he's sick."

She didn't understand the full extent of what he was going through:
Best case scenario: the kid would wake up the next morning and feel less like crap and get home.
Worst case scenario: the kid would never wake up.

It took me all of three seconds to choose what I did:

I got out of my car and asked the kid if he needed help.
His eyes were open, but he didn't say anything.
I put my hand on his neck and thought I could feel his vocal cords vibrating. Then I realized he was hardly breathing.
The vibrations were his heart beats.

If I called 911, it'd take an ambulance about 10 minutes to get there. But we were a little under a mile from South Coast Medical Center, so I put the kid in my car, and drove him there.

He had no ID so he was admitted as a John Doe. He was in a coma for a week. Then he died.
Flyers were put out, the local newspaper filed a story about him asking anyone for information. But no one ever came to claim him.

Not exactly a case of being a hero. Some people say I should have let him lie there and die, that I dragged out his suffering. But I've been quick to remind people that he was somebody's son, and no matter how bad their relationship was, I know they would have wanted someone to try and save him.