hey guys, posting this on behalf of my friend. hope you guys at sydney can help out. thanks! much apreciated

"Desperate Need To Recover Important Items Left In A Taxi Combine Cab in Sydney.

On the morning of 27 January 2009, my family and I (comprising my parents, another sister and brother and I) arrived into Sydney from Kuala Lumpur. We, the children, were going to start school within the next 2 days. At about 11.00 am we took a Tarago cab (one of those with facility for wheel chair) with Taxis Combine painted on the cab body from the Sydney airport to Distillery Drive in Pyrmont where we live. We cannot remember the taxi number nor did we take note of the driver's name. During the journey, from my father’s conversation with the cab driver, we know him to be of Pakistani origin. He studied engineering in his young days and has lived in Sydney for 21 years. He has been driving a cab for the last 16 years and he lives in Bankstown. He has 5 children and seems quite proud that another is on the way. In appearance, he is heavily bearded, looks about 50 years old or so and is fairly well built.

On arrival and after my father helped the driver to unload our bags from the Tarago cab’s boot, he forgot to retrieve his hand carry bag from the floor of the cab’s passenger seat. In his bag are his and my brother’s Malaysian passports, 5 air tickets, my father’s computer external hard disk, some books, some blank cheques and about A$4000 in Japanese Yen and Singapore dollars

My father tried calling the "Lost Property" service of Taxi Combine and my mum has been calling that service several times too but until now the service has not heard from that cab driver. My father is in desperate need to recover his external hard disk which has all our family’s personal records covering a period of over 20 years. Some of the records are very important to him and to us as school going children. However the information in the external hard disk even if accessed by whoever found his bag is of no use to that person. But to my father and his children the information is important. And my father and brother need to get back their passports too.

My father has asked me to post this on Facebook in the event that the person who found his bag also uses Facebook. My father would be most grateful to this person if he would be so kind as to return him his computer external disk and the passports. And he will also reward the finder for this act of kindness. My father is only interested in recovering the external hard disk and passports and no question will be asked. Alternatively, my father would like to get in touch with the cab driver to help him find his bag.

If you are the finder and are reading this posting for help, please email my father at datoypk1@yahoo.com and list 5 personal folders from his hard disk to him as proof and he will make contact with you by giving you his mobile number.

Thank you."

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