Gerardo Gamboa, a Las Vegas cab driver found and returned a brown bag containing $300,000 to its owner after it was left in his cab.
“I don’t care from $10 to higher. My dignity is not for sale, and that’s the way I am. That’s the way our parents taught us when I was a kid,” Gamboa told CNN affiliate KVVU. “All I wanted to do was just call my dispatcher and return it, and this is the only chance I have to show cab drivers in Las Vegas are not bad people.”
The obviously disappointed loser, was forever grateful and thanked Gamboa after receiving his winnings. The 28 year old poker player’s name has not been released.
The gambler was so devastated at his loss Monday that “he wanted to shoot himself in the head,” a cab company official revealed to KLAS.
“He was grateful. He was very understanding; he wasn’t irritated. To a point he was irritated, but he wasn’t mad or aggressive or anything. Maybe a little more embarrassed than anything. I mean, he left $300,000 in a cab, but he was an awesome guy,” Yellow Checker Star field operations manager Joel Willden told KVVU.
Yellow Check Star awarded Gamboa with a steak dinner for 2, driver of the year honor and a $1,000 reward.