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MBTA returns lost wallet with lots of cash to anxious owner
By adamg on Sun, 10/26/2014 - 12:34pm
Richard Cooper and Jazmine Tucker. Photos by MBTA.
On Thursday morning, a rider on the 93 bus handed driver Richard Cooper a wallet that was just sitting there - a wallet with $1,735 in it. Cooper, who has worked for the T for 28 years, gave the wallet to an inspector at Sullivan Square station, who handed it over to a supervisor at the Charlestown garage. The T reports:
On Friday, the wallet's owner, a Charlestown woman, was reunited with her wallet and the $1,735. She had called the T to report the missing wallet. After the woman verified her name and the wallet's contents, Bus supervisor Michelle Smallcomb handed it to a very happy Jazmine Tucker. She told the supervisor she was on her way to the bank when she left the wallet behind.
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Stories like this happen
Stories like this happen everyday but they go unreported. This is what I like to believe. Most people, by nature, are good.
So glad I live here
If this had happened in, say Texas, she would probably be arrested as a drug dealer and threatened with prosecution until she signed away the $1700. Because people aren't supposed to have money there, or something. It's not just Texas, either.
Yup, small business deals in
Yup, small business deals in large amounts of cash all the time.
My Aunt runs a travel agency. Many, if not most of her customers pay cash. Surprising? Not really, theyre people without access to credit, which is why theyre not buying online in the first place.
So at the end of every day, she has $1,000+ in cash that she has to take to the bank. It's two blocks, but she drives for safety. Not everyone has that luxury.
Yep
Or a landlord. Some folks I know who have three-deckers get piles of cash like that once a month and are super nervous about carrying it to a bank.
Girl Scout Cookie Season
When we sell at GS Cookies at a T station, we end up with that kind of money, mostly in small bills so you can't really make an ATM deposit. I've had to carry it in my pocket on the T on the way to work to get to a bank branch. It's one of the reasons we're getting a credit card reader this year.
Last week when I was on the
Last week when I was on the #10 bus a rider handed in a wallet to the driver. Still some good people around.
In the last year, I have
In the last year, I have found two wallets. One was on the back of a toilet at a rest stop in VT. The wallet belonged to a woman from NY. There was no way I was turning that wallet over to the gas station attendant -- not saying he was good or bad, I just knew that I was DEFINITELY going to find a way to get the wallet to her. I couldn't be sure someone else would. Conveniently, we were meeting some friends from NY in VT - so they took it back with them and then met up in the city to give it to her. I found her using facebook and LinkedIN - it wasn't that difficult.
The other time I found a wallet on the sidewalk heading towards downtown from the North End. I found the girl on LinkedIn and called her office the next day and met up with her to give it back.
I don't think I would have given the wallet to the bus driver. I probably would have made it my own personal mission to find the woman. Though I'm glad to know that I'm more cynical than maybe I need to be. Looks like there were multiple people in this story that touched the wallet before it got back to the owner and all the money was still there.
Same here
Found a lost wallet with a BU ID in it. Asked my friend who works as an adviser at BU to give me the kid's address. She told me how to contact students via e-mail, I did, and met the kid myself.
Can also call the credit card company
I found a wallet and called the credit card company for one of her cards. I told them what happened and gave them all my contact info. They put a temporary hold on the account. When she called the cc company to cancel the card, they passed on my info and I was able to return the wallet and she didn't have to replace all her cards and id.
That's a good idea
I did that a couple years ago - not sure how it ultimately worked out -but better they know some crook doesn't have the card.
I'm pretty sure I met Mr. Cooper on the Copley platform a couple years ago when he was working as one of the new "Customer Service" people they had introduced at the time. Very pleasant and remarked "I love my job."
Something similar happened to me on the Blue Line a while back
Only my wallet just had my T pass, my ID and a few dollars for a treat at Kelly's on Revere Beach. Since it was a quiet time of day when the conductor found my wallet on the train, he actually rerouted the train to bring me back my wallet. During the time while I was waiting for the train to return, the security guy gave me a cookie and offered to share his coffee with me. Of course, a letter was sent to passenger relations!
A friend of mine who was visiting me from overseas lost his briefcase on the red line once. It was quickly found and *not* blown up due to it being of a certain type (leather, old and obviously used but well-made. This was pre 9/11, too). I believe that my friend was told that they dealt with plenty of the 'absent - minded professor' types and warned to watch out for himself.