“It seems this guy has come into his inheritance and left it in the cab”, spokeswoman Rachel McGuire said.
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At one point the man got out of the cab to meet a friend intending to come back and left a backpack behind.
He and a desk sergeant at the Boston Police Department dumped out the contents – $187,000 in cash.
MacCausland was driving a homeless man who had inherited his riches after living in a shelter for six months, the 72-year-old cabbie remembered.
“This hackney driver exhibited exemplary behavior and his honest deed should be recognized”, Boston police Commissioner William Evans said.
MacCausland, nicknamed “Buzzy”, turned in the bundles of cash to Boston police after discovering the money in a backpack that was left in the back seat of his cab. The driver of that taxi is now being hailed as a good Samaritan by the police.
“When the owner of the property arrived, he provided proof of ownership and, thanks to the upstanding, honest hackney driver, was reunited with his backpack and money”, police said in a statement.
When he saw the piles of money in the bag, Buzzy said three thoughts ran through his head.
“Allah would never allow me to finance my own interests with someone else’s wealth.”
Police found paperwork indicating that the money was part of an inheritance. That person didn’t give him a reward, he said. It was up to Constable Alex Bérubé of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to find him – which he eventually did, at a soup kitchen called Our Place.
He decided on his third idea: to bring the bag of cash to the police station. “It would have been nice to see a lot of money like that though – probably changes lives”.
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As of this writing, it is not clear if the Boston cabbie who found a backpack full of money has been given a reward.
