[Vision2020] Here is Something You Will Never Read on Right-Mind

[Paul Rumelhart]

I think it's a sad reflection on our society when doing the right thing is newsworthy on a national level.

Paul

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Here is Something You Will Never Read on Right-Mind
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 2:58 PM
> Just another one of them Mid-East
> terrorists, right dale?
> 
> Courtesy of today's (January 13, 2010) Spokesman-Review.
> 
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> 
> NY cabbie returns $21,000 to passenger
> 
> NEW YORK – A New York City cabbie said he returned a lost
> purse containing
> more than $21,000 in cash and expensive jewelry because his
> mother always
> advised him to be honest.
> 
> “I’m broke, but I’m honest,” 28-year-old Mohammad
> “Mukal” Asadujjaman said
> Tuesday.
> 
> Felicia Lettieri, of Pompeii, Italy, and six relatives had
> taken two cabs
> from midtown Manhattan to Penn Station on Christmas Eve.
> The 72-year-old
> Lettieri left her purse behind, with more than $21,000 of
> the group’s
> traveling money, jewelry worth thousands more, and some of
> their
> passports.
> 
> The cabbie, a native of Bangladesh, saw the rolls of euros
> when he opened
> the bag to look for an address, but didn’t even count the
> money. “My
> mother is my inspiration,” the soft-spoken cabbie said.
> “She always said
> to be honest and work hard.”
> 
> The cabbie called a friend with a car and drove some 50
> miles to a
> Patchogue address in the purse. No one was home, so
> Asadujjaman left his
> cell phone number and a note. His phone rang a short time
> later and he
> drove back to return the bag.
> 
> “They were so, so, so happy,” Asadujjaman beamed.
> 
> The immigrant is a full-time student at a city college near
> his apartment
> in Jamaica, Queens.
> 
> ----------
> 
> Mohammad Asadujjaman is being praised for returning a purse
> left in his taxi.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/Mohammad-Asadujjaman
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Just another Allah worshiper, right dale?
> 
> As Kris Kristofferson once said . . .
> 
> "We don't need no riddle-speaking profits scraring decent
> folks like you
> and me."
> 
> What we need are a hole lot more Mohammad Asadujjamans in
> our
> neighborhood, right V-peeps?
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist
> expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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