Why should it be reported at all ? Shouldn't honesty and good deeds be the norm rather than something considered newsworthy? I know someone who left her purse on a plane in Dubai. By the time she realised, she had already deplaned and reached her hotel (within the airport). The Airport hotel staff contacted the airline staff / who re-boarded the plane found it and arranged for it to be returned. On another occasion, also in Dubai, a colleague was moving between hotels and heading to work with their luggage in the boot of a taxi. Distracted by a phone call and a problem at work, the got out and completely forgot the luggage. After contacting hotel whose security checked the CCTV, identified the taxi, and provided the registration number. they contacted the taxi company, they reached the driver, the luggage was returned. Neither incident was remotely newsworthy because dishonesty was never really expected in the first place. Things go wrong. People make mistakes. Property gets left behind. The interesting part isn't that someone returned it - it's that we seem to think the act is extraordinary enough to warrant media coverage. If a pickpocket in Barcelona or Venice tracked down their victim and returned a wallet full of cash, that probably would make headlines across Europe. Not because it's a remarkable act in itself, but because it runs completely counter to what people would normally expect. And that's really the point. Something becomes newsworthy when it stands in contrast to the perceived norm. If returning lost property is routine and expected behaviour and these taxi drivers are so honest, then why does it keep making the news 4-5x per ?
