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Old 11-19-2005, 08:56 AM
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Default Cabbie Returns $350,000 In Diamonds Left In Cab

Haider Sediqi didn't give much thought to the small, zippered pouch that a passenger forgot in his taxicab when he got out at Los Angeles International Airport. Sediqi stashed the brown bag in the front, where it remained as he took his Checker cab to the car wash, drove a passenger to Long Beach and met a fellow cabbie for lunch Wednesday.

As he walked off to the restroom, Sediqi asked his friend to check the bag for identification. "Oh, God," Sediqi, 40, recalled his friend saying as he stared into the bag. "Look at those things."

Inside, packed in clear plastic cases were diamonds - about 100 of them, cut and polished and worth, it turned out, $350,000. Also inside was a cell phone bill...
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All I can say is WOW!!!
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