Wish I could describe it in further detail, but that's it. The guy leaves his bag in a cab, which is full of all his film stuff, a total of 13,000 dollars in equipment. He calls the cab company, tries to track down the driver, calls 311, tries to contact the cab station, just about everything he can do to get it back. In the process he interviews a few different cab drivers to see what they would do if they found that bag in their car, and what they do with lost belongings. Some say it's gone forever, some say they would return it, and one guy says all other taxi drivers are assholes. So it's a hung jury on that.
Eventually he makes contact with the driver, the driver still has his stuff, and he offers to return it. In exchange our thrilled narrator gives him 500 bucks reward, and that's that.
This story is supposed to make some kind of statement on the kindness of strangers, but all I could think was "how does a professional filmmaker forget all of his luggage in a cab?" Who does that?
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