Boston Taxi Lost and Found. Need a Taxi in Boston right now? Call 617-269-4444

O.k. So if you found this you most likely woke up with a big hang over and realised you left your wallet, keys iphone, cell phone, purse laptop,pc, lucky charms,child (yes it actually happened) in a Boston Taxi or ? Obviously the item you have lost you want to try and get back or you would not be reading this so the following is a mixture of official policy and 10 years of practical Boston Taxi experience that is really your best shot to getting your lost property returned to you.

1)First ask yourself. What do I remember about the Boston taxi itself?

 

What color was it? Did it have a divider between the front and back sheet with a plastic window at the top? What color was the lettering on the outside of the taxi? Do you actually know the number of the taxi cab you were in? Just because you were picked up in a Boston does not mean you were in a Boston licensed taxi cab. Taxis from several bordering towns come into Boston and steal/poach work from us. You may have been in one of these cabs. Was the item you lost a phone? If so did you try repeatedly calling the phone and asking whoever finds it if they will bring it back to you? Do you remember the last few people you spoke with just prior to losing your phone? Perhaps you should try calling them or anyone in your phone marked Home,house, mom, dad etc and asking if anyone called them asking about a lost phone. I often try to get people their property back before I turn it in to the police and will make every attempt to contact the person via their recent call history or their Mom,Dad,Wife, etc.

2) By law any property found in a Boston licensed Taxi is supposed to be immediately turned in to the on duty officer in the lobby of Boston police headquarters.

 

Any driver who calls a dispatcher to report the property has been found or any customer who asks a taxi cab dispatcher about lost property gets told to call the lost and found phone number at 617-536-8294(taxi). One problem with this. They never actually answer the phone and depending on who is working the desk may not check the messages until the next morning or Monday morning. GO TO BOSTON POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND ASK IF THEY HAVE YOUR SHIT! BPD headquarters is 1 Schroeder plaza located next to the Orange line Ruggles train station at the Corner of Ruggles and Tremons st. in Boston’s Roxbury crossing neighbourhood.

3) If you are still reading I am guessing you still did not have your stuff because it was not at the Boston police headquarters. aka the Boston Taxi lost and found

 

At this point things are not looking good for you but we will keep trying to help you get the stuff you lost back. If the cab you were in had a divider that separated you from the driver then it MAY have been a Boston licensed taxi cab and one of the below phone numbers might be the cab you were in. If there was no divider/shield separating you and the driver then chances are you were not in a Boston licensed taxi cab and these numbers will not help you. If you have been looking in the yellow pages you will see dozens perhaps over a hundred taxi company phone numbers. The secret here is that there are only 4 phone numbers in Boston that will connect you to the only 4 places where taxi cabs are dispatched from. The below phone numbers are so super secret I beg you not to tell the people that answer them how you got the number these are their “specials”. Seriously that is what they all call them its a hold over from the 1930′s. I will not even identify which company owns which number just a description of the cabs that they dispatch.

I recommend you call each one of these “specials” and say the following:

“Hi I hate to bother you because I know you are busy but I lost my (Insert what your stupid ass lost here) and I would like to leave my name and phone number in case it is turned in.” It also never hurts to offer a reward for your lost property no one can make you give what you offered but it may make someone speak up understand? I have also included a tiny white lie with each phone number that may get the person to help you a bit more.

1) 617-426-8277
White cabs with Red and Blue stripes on the sides.
White lie: “I play cards at Mohegan Sun/Foxwoods with George Summers and he said if I ever had a problem you guys would help me”

2) 781-286-5490

White cabs with yellow and red checker pattern on front door & also this phone number dispatches cabs that are All white with fat Red letters.
White lie: ” I went to High school in Winthrop with Tiffany and she said if I ever had a problem you guys would help me”

3) 617-242-8000
White Boston licensed Taxis with Fat green lettering.
White lie: I know Felix from Suffolk Downs and he told me that if I ever had a problem you guys would help me out.

4) 617-266-4700
White and Brown Boston licensed cabs with fat brown letters.

White lie: My nana goes to Church with Eddie Tutunjian (pronounced: Tah Ton G An ) and he told her if I ever had a problem to call and you would help me.

If after doing all this you still do not have back whatever it was that you lost then my friend I hate to tell you this you may be shit out of luck here. The shields that are put into our cabs to protect us are so high we can not see the back seat. There is a very good possibility that whoever got into the cab right after you found whatever you lost and took it with them. Sorry folks!

 

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