June 24, 2008
Taxi driver Trevor Hamilton is in the papers today for finding £9,000 in used bank notes in the back of his cab - and handing it in to his employers.
If only Mrs Guru had been driven home by Hamilton on those occasions over the last decade when she lost, in order, her purse, her phone, her shoes and her sanity in the back of cabs (actually Guru wonders if he was slightly responsible for the last one).
Hamilton was certainly more honest than the cabbies Mrs Guru has used - or, of course, the passengers who used them after her. He phoned United Taxis and said he had a Sainsbury's bag worth almost 10 grand.
The firm told the police and they located the elderly owner, who had already reported the loss, given up on the cash and gone to buy turkey twizzlers in Sainsbury's with an old Tesco's bag.
United Taxis must have been very proud of Hamilton. Although, of course, with the current fuel prices and credit crunch biting, he could have probably given them a much needed boost by spending the loot on petrol.
He would have got at least half a tank.
