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Joke spoilered for bad taste.

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[JackofDiamonds]

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[Cole Burns]

Once in Cairo, a member of our team left their guitar in the back of a taxi cab. Now, we're talking Cairo, Egypt. You don't get a receipt or a name or a cab number. Some cabs have numbers, but when they're written in a different language it's hard to make a note of it. And the cabbies don't speak English, or if they do, they pretend they don't so that they can charge you more.

So, we get about 50 yards from the curb when my friend yells, "My guitar! My $5000 guitar! It's in the back of the cab." He runs back to the street curb and I just laugh. It's a sea of black and white cabs. Our cabbie was dark complected with black hair. He wore a white shirt. He drove a cab. That describes about half of the people on the street at any given moment. And Cairo is not small-town. It can be more crowded than NYC at times.

So, after talking with some locals, our friend is told, "Sometimes the cabs stop over there for lunch. You could try it." So he walks to a corner restaurant and waits, looking for cabs, thinking he may remember what it looked like. "It had a busted fender, right?" Yeah, all cabs have busted fenders.

He walks up to the corner and a guy who's smoking a cigarette sees him coming. He waves him over. "Did you lose a guitar?" he asks in broken English.

"Yeah."

"Ok, the guy will be right back."

"Really? But how..."

"You're American. Look around, see any other Americans? It is you who lost guitar."

So, in a busy international city with thousands of cab drivers criss-crossing the disjointed and dirty roads, there was at least one honest cab driver in all of Cairo who told his friends about the guitar and was able to get it back to its rightful owner.

This would be a unique story if not for it happening again 3 days later with my wife...when she lost her passport in a cab...and got it back.

But that happens all the time. It's common place in Cairo. I've heard that same story from everyone I know who lives over there. The average cost of a cab drive in Cairo is about 5 LBE, or 5 Egyptian Pounds...roughly $.75. These guys don't make a lot of money, they aren't held accountable with receipts, but they always seem to do the right thing. Amazing.

And yes, we did tip the cab driver. He said no, but we insisted. He finally took the money, of course, it's how these things work.

[Maclowery]

I have to call a giant "What the Fack" to JoD's youtube.

People leave crap in cabs all the time. If you lose it, you're a [expletive] moron. I consider myself a very good keeper of my own goods, and despite that, on three separate occasions in NYC I have left or unknowingly dropped a smart phone, a CVM shopping bag of assorted cheap goods, and a very important late night chicken over rice to-go box from a Halal vendor. I got the phone back (hugely thankful), lost the groceries, and was seriously upset about the chicken.

I'm not sure what that video was meant to say. If a cabbie sees two bags from a 13 dollar fare in the back, he's going to give them back to his company. To me, that video inferred that cabbies often willingly take an entire haul of top of the line camera equipment and merrily go on their way. And then it celebrates Mohammed for his honesty, and gives him half a large like he's a hero.

Long story short, weirdo filmmaker made a stupid video, and Mohammed the cabbie got to buy his family some cool stuff. Good for Mohammed.

Also, I have been in many, many dozens of cabs with many different people, and never once have I seen anyone ask for a printed receipt. Never. Hence my skepticism.

[JackofDiamonds]

I have to call a giant "What the Fack" to JoD's youtube.

People leave crap in cabs all the time. If you lose it, you're a [expletive] moron. I consider myself a very good keeper of my own goods, and despite that, on three separate occasions in NYC I have left or unknowingly dropped a smart phone, a CVM shopping bag of assorted cheap goods, and a very important late night chicken over rice to-go box from a Halal vendor. I got the phone back (hugely thankful), lost the groceries, and was seriously upset about the chicken.

I'm not sure what that video was meant to say. If a cabbie sees two bags from a 13 dollar fare in the back, he's going to give them back to his company. To me, that video inferred that cabbies often willingly take an entire haul of top of the line camera equipment and merrily go on their way. And then it celebrates Mohammed for his honesty, and gives him half a large like he's a hero.

Long story short, weirdo filmmaker made a stupid video, and Mohammed the cabbie got to buy his family some cool stuff. Good for Mohammed.

Also, I have been in many, many dozens of cabs with many different people, and never once have I seen anyone ask for a printed receipt. Never. Hence my skepticism.

I get printed receipts all the time when I'm coming home from work travel. It's called an expense card.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

that was incredibly douchey. If that guy was walking around with his work gear worth $13K and didn't have it insured, I don't know what to say.

Dear Mohammed, it's honest people like you that make the world honest.

Rocket science.

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you guys aren't being superfun

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