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Bit naughty but I find this bit of karma so satisfying and amusing

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bagpuss90 · 02/07/2023 14:54

So I have taxi driver friend - he picked a woman up from the airport and took her to her home. He says she was chatty and friendly throughout the ride. Got to hers -the fare was just over 60 quid. He helped her with her bags , she said she had to go indoors to get his money. Ten minutes passed and nothing he knocked on the door -no answer. Knocked again - she leaned out of an upstairs window and asked him what he wanted - he obviously told her. She said she didn’t know what he was on about -she hadn’t been in his cab. Closed the window- he banged on the door again. She leaned out again and threatened to call the police and tell them he was harassing her. She clearly never had any intention of paying him- though they agreed the fare before the ride.. He walked back his car debating what to do. Then he heard a mobile phone ring in the back of the cab. He answered it and was her demanding her phone back . He said “sorry you seem to have forgotten you weren’t in my cab !” He drove off - I don’t know tbh what he intends to do with the phone . But talk about reaping what you sow . Dunno if I’m being mean to find it so satisfying 🤷‍♀️

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SayHi · 02/07/2023 18:15

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 17:59

How did she call when her phone was in the cab?

A lot of people stopped having landlines, but I guess she still had her landline?

I don’t believe this. He immediately answered her cell phone? A cab driver would most likely hear it ring but not answer it, but yes hold on to it because it is obviously leverage against someone who refused to pay and performed a one act play to entertain us. But to immediately answer it? He didn’t know her name, did he? So if her name showed up on her phone, he wouldn’t recognize and know to answer it. But you say she called and demanded her phone back. Unless she hung out of the second story window again while calling on her landline to her cell phone in the cab so cab driver would know it’s her and would know to answer it, why would he answer it?

I found a phone a few weeks back and I immediately answered it so I could somehow give it back to the person.
How else would you be able to return it.

When you order a taxi you usually say your name or if she called from her landline then it would have said ‘home’ or something.

I still have a landline as it’s part of my broadband package and it’s handy to have in an emergency or when I put my mobile down and can’t find it.

oakleaffy · 02/07/2023 18:29

AutumnCrow · 02/07/2023 15:16

This is one of them there urban myths, right?

That's what I thought, too! Too much proof to know she got in his cab.

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 18:31

SayHi · 02/07/2023 18:15

I found a phone a few weeks back and I immediately answered it so I could somehow give it back to the person.
How else would you be able to return it.

When you order a taxi you usually say your name or if she called from her landline then it would have said ‘home’ or something.

I still have a landline as it’s part of my broadband package and it’s handy to have in an emergency or when I put my mobile down and can’t find it.

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Your story has nothing to do with this. Different people, different situation.

Galatine · 02/07/2023 19:04

She really sounds like a pillock I'd have no sympathy for the cheating cow!

speedingtortoise · 02/07/2023 19:06

DP's a taxi driver this happens all the time, the last person who did a runner on him had to ring him & ask if she'd left her work keys in his taxi & could he drop them off to her the other side of the city. Obviously he was too busy to help her & dropped the keys at head office even further out of her way.

Schlomp · 02/07/2023 19:10

Id put a post up on local facebook sites telling the story under the guise of trying to find the phones owner, stating it cant possibly be the wiman because she swore she wasnt in the taxi

IamnotHWhittier · 02/07/2023 19:16

Wow
What a stroke of luck for your friend.
I hope he’s adding interest by the minute.

CamelCaseLetter · 02/07/2023 19:22

I worked in a shop where a similar thing happened. A couple came in and took loads of dresses to the changing room and spent an hour trying them on. Eventually they emerged and walked straight out of the door without a word. I went in the changing room and found the clothes in a heap on the floor, 3 dresses missing, and an expensive phone! They had the nerve to come back the next day looking for the phone and the manager told them to pay for the dresses they stole or explain it all to the police.

pleasehelpwi3 · 02/07/2023 19:26

I had a load of coins I really wanted to spend at end of holiday to Turkey.
We took taxi to restaurant; fare was however many Turkish Lira. Paid it in coins, apologised to driver.
On the identical return journey, different taxi driver. Fare was then double what it had been on the way there. Paid it in coins; driver complained too many coins.
Cue us saying 'well if you hadn't of tried to rip us off, there wouldn't be so many coins....'
Ok, so nowhere near as good as the OPs story- but I'm 100% certain as it happened to me.
A shout out to the Cape Town taxi driver who tracked me down in the airport terminal and refused any hint of a tip when he returned my camera with all the photos of that trip that I'd left in his cab, and the Budapest taxi driver who somehow found my youth hostel when I was paralytic just by a vague description, and name of an area of Budapest, and charged a fair price.
Two taxi drivers I wouldn't recognise if I saw them again but remain forever grateful to!

SayHi · 02/07/2023 19:33

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 18:31

Your story has nothing to do with this. Different people, different situation.

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But you’re struggling to understand how someone could answer someone else’s phone - I just gave you an example.

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 20:12

SayHi · 02/07/2023 19:33

But you’re struggling to understand how someone could answer someone else’s phone - I just gave you an example.

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No, of course you answered a random phone to find out the owner.

This wasn’t a random phone. It was clearly the phone of the person who had just gotten out and refused to pay her fare. Therefore he didn’t need to answer it to find out the owner, he already knew. He was alerted by the ring to the fact she’d left it in his cab so he would automatically know he had leverage. The owner was right there, no need to answer the phone which could have been someone besides the owner. Unless she was still hanging out the window with a landline phone.

Totally different scenarios.

SayHi · 02/07/2023 20:19

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 20:12

No, of course you answered a random phone to find out the owner.

This wasn’t a random phone. It was clearly the phone of the person who had just gotten out and refused to pay her fare. Therefore he didn’t need to answer it to find out the owner, he already knew. He was alerted by the ring to the fact she’d left it in his cab so he would automatically know he had leverage. The owner was right there, no need to answer the phone which could have been someone besides the owner. Unless she was still hanging out the window with a landline phone.

Totally different scenarios.

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But why would he not answer the phone when he wanted his money?

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 20:30

SayHi · 02/07/2023 20:19

But why would he not answer the phone when he wanted his money?

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He was at her house, sayhi. His money was right there in the house. Probably in the purse she had with her when she was in the cab.

He knew who the owner was. You didn’t. Your point was that you had to answer the phone to find out who the owner was. Well he didn’t. Then you changed your argument.

The whole post was structured like a formulaic joke and the answering of the phone was just one of several things that caught my attention.

SayHi · 02/07/2023 20:45

MysteryBelle · 02/07/2023 20:30

He was at her house, sayhi. His money was right there in the house. Probably in the purse she had with her when she was in the cab.

He knew who the owner was. You didn’t. Your point was that you had to answer the phone to find out who the owner was. Well he didn’t. Then you changed your argument.

The whole post was structured like a formulaic joke and the answering of the phone was just one of several things that caught my attention.

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If he didn’t know who it was he would have answered because someone’s lost their phone.

If he did know who it was then he would have answered because she refused to pay him.

Either way you would answer the phone and you definitely would if someone owed you so much money and was pretending to have never been in your taxi.

MySugarBabyLove · 02/07/2023 20:46

This is one of them there urban myths, right? I thought so and posted as much upthread.

But I’ve done a bit of googling and looking on snopes and the like and I can see no mention of a story like it.

GoldieG · 03/07/2023 01:13

He was right to take it hope he has her on tape saying he never dropped her off from the airport. She will likely say she paid in cash if she rings the police but with all of the cameras she will be proved as being a liar.

Tosire · 03/07/2023 02:21

Well it's not great. He's still owed £60 only now he has somebody else's phone that is probably locked with a pincode or finger print. Hope if she does give him the £60 in exchange for the phone he doesn't have to drive round there again to make the exchange. It all seems like a waste of time, effort and petrol.

PerfectYear321 · 03/07/2023 02:29

He should sell the phone

Fat lot of good going to the police would do. LOL at "there will be CCTV evidence". And so what if there is,? We don't prosecute serious crimes anymore. ... who's going to be interested in someone doing a runner from a cab? They'll say it's a civil matter.

doorstopper123 · 03/07/2023 18:05

Cool story dude

caringcarer · 03/07/2023 18:10

I hope it was an expensive phone.

Cariadm · 03/07/2023 18:19

Do you even really need to ask?! Bit of a foregone conclusion really, even if there's no such thing as Karma we definitely 'reap what we sow' and she can't have it both ways, if she was never, as she say, in his cab then she couldn't have left her phone in it...could she?! 🤔🙄😆

Museya15 · 03/07/2023 18:35

Fraaahnces · 02/07/2023 15:03

Phone is proof that she was in the cab. Take it to the police. Dodging a fare is a crime.

Lol police won't even come out if you're being assaulted in a supermarket!!!

AffIt · 03/07/2023 18:45

Years ago, when I was finishing up university, I worked as an assistant manager in a very high end restaurant.

The number of dine n' dashes we had was outrageous, until we employed a wonderful Polish guy, who was built like the proverbial brick outhouse.

On a Fri / Sat night, I would always place him on the station closest to the exit, to which I or the bar manager also had a clear line of sight from the main room.

It was ASTONISHING how our DnDs reduced as Tomasz politely asked rapidly-departing punters if they'd settled their bills on the way out...

Tl;dr: do not underestimate how astonishingly dishonest many, many people can be.

islandofserenity · 03/07/2023 18:54

I love it lol ! Ive just had the most fantastic bit of karma happen to me. Going back 6 years, my sis in law did something despicable to me. The consequences were absolutely horrendous and lasted for 18 months. The other day, I named and shamed her -her family all covered it up. Now, everyone knows what an evil cow she is!!!!

wendyjoy · 03/07/2023 19:00

An oldie but goodie.. heard this so many times