Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A New York cabbie is being hailed as a hero by a Swiss couple who left a purse with their money and IDs in the back of his taxi. Daniel Hasler, a Swiss software engineer, said he and his wife, Chilean native Valeria Zapata, arrived in New York for a vacation Wednesday and took a cab driven by Kashmir Singh to a bed-and-breakfast in Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reported Monday. Advertisement Hasler said he and his wife realized too late that the bag, which contained their identification, $700 cash, credit cards, an iPhone, an iPod, a camera and Zapata's Swiss residency card, had been left in the cab's back seat. "We were really frightened," Hasler said. "Without the residency card, my wife would have had a big problem getting back into Switzerland. We had already called the Swiss Consulate." However, Hasler said he and his wife returned to the bed-and-breakfast from their dinner Thursday to find Singh had found the bag and dropped it off with the accommodation's owner, Paul Steinfeld. "He's our humble hero," Hasler said. The 50-year-old cabbie said he just wanted to give his city a good name. Advertisement "It's just my nature," he said. "I'm a typical New York guy, and these people were tourists. I want them to think well of New York."
