© Video screengrabThomas Güntner is a taxi driver in Würzburg, Bavaria found €250,000 on the back seat of his taxi and returned it to the elderly couple who had left it behind.
A Bavarian taxi driver found €250,000 on the back seat of his taxi on Monday. He then tracked down the elderly couple who had left it behind and would not accept a finder's reward from them.
Thomas Güntner is a taxi driver in Würzburg, Bavaria. As reported in
Die Welt (German language), he had picked up an elderly couple at the bank and shortly after he drove them home, he noticed a cloth bag sitting on the back seat of his car.
On peeking inside the cloth bag, he was shocked to find €250,000 in €500 notes.
He told the media on Tuesday, "I was totally perplexed and surprised, that people could carry around so much cash and then forget it."
He added that keeping the money just wasn't an option, as he knew that "it would probably be the downfall of the old couple."
BR.de reported (in German) that around 30 minutes after discovering the cash, he arrived at the couple's house, cash in hand. The woman met Güntner at the door, with tears in her eyes, so grateful to the man.
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