Las Vegas Cabbie Returns Huge Money Stash to Anonymous Poker Pro
An honest vegas cabbie made a find that is surprising the back of his cab this week (Image: Hendrik Holler / Getty Images)
UPDATE: December 27, 2013: Although they usually say that no good deed goes unpunished, for once, some one whom did the proper thing has really gotten rewarded for it: cab driver Gerardo Gamboa had a little merrier xmas after receiving a $10,000 reward through the mystery poker player to whom the $300,000 in cash belonged, as well as another $1,000 from his company Yellow Star cab and a $250 dining certificate.
Evidently like ransom cash the bucks, still bundled in those $5,000 wads, was fallen off at undisclosed location by Mystery Poker Person for Gamboa’s good deed.
When you’re a vegas cab driver, you won’t ever know who or what will end up in your taxi on any provided day. So driver that is veteran Gamboa was unfazed each time a Bellagio resort doorman, opening the cab’s rear door to assist a new customer in, noticed a brown paper bag left regarding the chair by the cab’s previous occupant, evidently. He didn’t even bother to look inside whenever doorman use it his passenger seat until he got to a light and interest got the best of him. Guessing that chocolates lay in delay, a peek was taken by him inside, with illicit thoughts in mind should his conjecture be correct.
‘What form of chocolates are they?’ Gamboa pondered. ‘Are they good ones that I really could buy some for my wife as