By Kemberly Richardson
(New York-WABC, July 16, 2004) — It's one of those situations in life that really tests your honesty.
A cabbie finds some jewelry in the back seat of his cab. And some serious jewelry this was -- rare South Pacific black pearls, worth $78,000. This is a cabbie who makes $80 a day, has been mugged twice, and is behind on his rent. What would you do?
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It was only his second week on the job. On Wednesday night Nester picked up Larry Policastro and dropped him off on the Lower East Side. Then Nester picked up another passenger who told him someone -- Larry -- had left a bag in the back seat. Nester looked inside and found mounds of black pearls.
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Nester admits he thought about keeping the gems for a split second. He's behind with his rent, and has been mugged twice, and the thieves took all of his money. But still, he couldn't. Since there was also a cell phone in the bag, it was fairly simple for Nester to track Larry down and return the loot.
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Larry insisted on giving Nester a $500 reward, and has raised $5,000 towards his tuition for nursing school this fall. Nester says he would do the same thing again. This cabbie is now being called a gem of a driver.
Yeah. And this is more the rule than the exception. Have I mentioned that I love New York?
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