Who's really in your cab?

This past Thursday, I was cruising Northgate. It was around midnight, so it was pretty dead, though over all it was a pretty good for a Thursday; I picked up a 3 people in front a Traditions, a student housing complex just behind Northgate, they were headed to Daisy Duke's. They didn't need much convincing to get on (a nice change) and away we went. I was puffing along; there was the usual chatter behind me about how cool this was, how great an idea this was, etc. We get to Daisy Duke's and one of the guys hands me a wad of ones, not bad. The other guy was about to walk away with the girl but stop and says "you know what, here you go". He turns, pulls out his wallet and opens it. This guys got a badge inside, a silver 7 pointed star, stuck on the middle section of his tri-fold. Being a guy in his 20s he probably wasn't very important, but it makes you wonder who your average Joe Blow really is. Thanks for the extra $4.