taxi rank story

it's that time of the year for the "thousands of mobile phones are left in the backs of taxis every year" story. And laptops, and memory sticks. Quick, buy our security device now.... It's based on real research, you know, although the honest cabbies who commissioned it are too embarassed to put it on their web site. In a desperate effort to refresh the story, they are suggesting its not just happening in London (last year's take) but in Bombay (sic) and Sydney too.