美賭城司機拾金不昧 賭客30萬美元失而復得

據美國媒體12月25日報道，美國拉斯維加斯出租車司機甘博亞拾金不昧，主動歸還了乘客遺落在車後座的30萬美元。他也因此獲得公司嘉獎。

當地時間23日，一名男子搭乘了甘博亞的出租車，並給了他5美元小費，甘博亞在送完他接着載下一名客人時發現了遺落在車後座上的一個棕色紙袋。他以爲紙袋裏裝着巧克力，很好奇是哪種巧克力，就打開了紙袋。

令人瞠目結舌的是，紙袋裏裝的不是巧克力，而是6捆100美元的鈔票。甘博亞打電話給了公司調度，並帶着錢來到公司。拉斯維加斯警方和賭場官員說，這筆錢是一位撲克玩家的，並最終證實了失主的身份。

甘博亞所屬的出租車公司對他拾金不昧的精神大加讚賞，授予他“年度司機”的榮譽，獎勵了他1000美元和一餐美食。

截至目前，失主並沒有任何表示。“如果他不給我任何東西，也沒什麼，”甘博亞說，“我只是想做正確的事，我很感激公司對我的獎勵。”

Las Vegas cab driver Gerardo Gamboa thought someone left a bag of chocolates in the back seat of his vehicle, but the stash turned out to be $300,000 in cold hard cash.

Now, Gamboa is winning honors for honesty after turning in the money he found Monday. The money was returned to an unidentified poker player. Yellow Checker Star Transportation named Gamboa its driver of the year and rewarded him with $1,000 and a dinner for two at a restaurant.

A message left Wednesday for Gamboa at the cab company wasn't immediately returned.

Gamboa told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he had another passenger by the time he began wondering what kind of chocolates were in the brown paper bag. He peeked inside at a traffic light.

"I told my passenger, 'You are my witness on this,'" the 13-year taxi driver told the Las Vegas Sun, "and then I immediately called my dispatcher."

Gamboa took the six bundles of $100 bills to the company's main office, where Las Vegas police and casino officials linked it to the poker player.

Gamboa said the man gave him a $5 tip after a trip from the Cosmopolitan resort to the Palms Place tower, and Gamboa then drove to the Bellagio resort, where a doorman helping a passenger into the car noticed the bag.

It took several hours to verify the identity of the owner and return the cash. He took Gamboa's information, but didn't immediately leave a reward.

"If he doesn't give me anything, that's OK," Gamboa told the Sun. "I'm not waiting for any kind of return. I just wanted to do the right thing, and I appreciate what the company did for me."