Have you ever ran from a taxi?

Dean820

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Have you ever ran from a taxi without paying? This made a good thread on another forum I post at. Its amazing the amount of people who have the cheek to do it. :eek:

What a gay thing to do.

Has anyone here actually taken part in such a deed?

This weekend whilst getting a cab ride which was clocking up to over £20:00 I received a text from my mate on the other side of the cab saying "Bail in traffic."

I look up and see him sitting diagonally across from me with a weird paedophilic grin on his face and winking at me at the same time.

Needless to say I said no and as a result ended up paying the whole fair while my mate ****ed off down to the other end of the road, and I was left apologizing to some cockney bellshine for like 5 minutes.

What the **** does "bail in traffic" mean anyway? Was he planning to literally step out of the moving car and hope for the best? Maybe it's some new type of thrill seeking, either way I ended up getting shafted. I'm just saying I'm totally against petty crime because there is just no need for it in my opinion, just not worth it.

Yes this was the same weekend as the train journey I talked about in the other thread. Crazy.

tman

Not only did you steal the idea for the thread, you also stole someone elses story!?:p

A friend of mine did it once when he realised he didn't have enough money on him, he got the taxi driver to stop at an ATM, but was hammered drunk enough to think that running off and hiding in someone's garden was a better idea... Bit of a wanky thing to do, but made for a funny story!

Holsten

No, I'm not a scummer.

well, this one time at band camp....

no really, I was in Tenerife or somewhere like that and the little bollox of a taxi man was trying to charge us double what we had paid every other night of our trip,,, I argued with him to no avail, and then decided to jump out, I didn't however, communicate this very well to my boyfriend and the nice taxi man drove off with him insitu. It was at this point that his tuck and roll tecnique was put into action!!!

I did pay him the real amount before my departure though

Riddle101

Nope I wouldn't. I have a moral obligation to fulfil when I imbark on something, I must see it to the end and make sure everything goes right, otherwise I'd feel p1ssed off at myself. I'm a bit of a perfectionist really, that I have see everything to the end, Exams, Work and even Paying taxi fares, if I don't finish it I won't feel good about it.

Also because it's petty and I wouldn't refuse another man his pay for doing his job

Daroxtar

Did it in college in letterkenny 93/94 a couple of times on the way back from Neros. There was a cul de sac in an estate with a wall that you could clear with a vault and our estate was the other side of the wall. Saved £4, or a 15 minute walk. Aaaah, student life....

RATM

Have never bailed on a taxi but the one time I felt we should have it was too late. 6 of us were at a wedding in the Nuremore Hotel, think its approx 2 miles outside Carrick in Monaghan.
Anyway after much merriment we got reception to call a taxi at 4am, a 7 seater arrived an hour later and took us the 2 miles to our B&B. I was up for walking it but the girlfriends, hammered in high heels, were having none of it.

Anyway when we arrived he demanded €60 for the spin. We argued that we had only done 2 miles and he claimed he had driven all the way from Dundalk to pick us up and would have to go back there afterwards. My mate said he didnt care if he came all the way from Spain and threw him €20 and we all walked off. Still don't feel guilty about it, he had done the right thing as far as I was concerned, this was at the height of rip off Ireland so I guess in hindsight it shouldn't have surprised me too much.

Sam Kade

A neighbour of mine was at a dance back in the late seventies, when he was going home on his motorbike a fellow he knew asked him if he would drive him home so he gave him a lift home. When he arrived at the mans house the man told him to wait a minute he wanted to give him something so he waited thinking that the man was going to pay him for giving him a lift home. A few minutes later here is your man out with the shotgun and ordered my neighbour to drive his motorbike into a pond in his lawn. As the family had a reputation as being hard men my neighbour didn't hesitate and drove into the pond.

Rented Mule

As a barman of many years in the States, I once had the pleasure of watching one young genius from Tyrone try to do a runner from the taxi man after running up an $85 fare.

Now it is a Sunday evening and he has been out drinking since the wee hours of the morning. He bails out of the taxi and runs through the bar thinking that the taxi man wasn't going to follow him in.

He runs through the bar and out the back door that opens into the car park which is situated in a residential neighborhood.

He sees the taxi man chasing him and decided to try and disappear in the darkness of the neighbors back gardens. What he doesn't realise is that in suburban Chicago, everyone has a motion detector in their backyards.

As he jumps over each fence and runs through each back garden another light comes on. He is literally letting everyone know where he is with each step.

A few minutes later a police car pulls up into the carpark of the bar and the taxi man points out the genius in question setting off more and more lights the further away he gets.

The police pull around to the end of the block waiting for him, as he is still running and jumping fences as quickly as his drunken legs will carry him.

The police at this point are having a great laugh at his expense cheering him on as he staggers towards him. He literally falls to his knees and starts vomitting as he reaches the last fence. If he would have made it another few feet, it would have been something out of a bad film.

The cops bring him back to the bar looking for someone to vouch for him and pay the bill. His brother sitting at the bar takes one look at him covered in his own vomit and hyper-ventialing, just turns away and goes back to his drink.

He nearly **** himself now that the cops were taking him away.

The rest of the bar was in hysterics.

Finally, we floated him the cash and a healthy tip and the taximan walked away happy. The cops took his details and left laughing with a story to tell everyone back at the station.

Dartz

I've been run over by a taxi. It was an interesting view of a Prius' battery....

suspectpackage

did this one time when I was younger and although i feel bad about it now (the driver wa just doing his job and it was a lousy thing to happen to him), the adrenaline rush was awesome. I felt bad afterwards though but it was better than walking all the way home thats for sure.

Wibbs

No its well out of order. They're having hard enough at the moment without some thieving prat pulling that stunt. If you can't afford it, walk.

Tom65

A taxi driver was telling me about a guy who, earlier in the evening, had done a runner on the fare. He very camly said "But I remember his face. And I'll be driving around here again some night, I'll see him, get out of the car, and smash his f*cking face in".

After that, I wouldn't like to chance running from a taxi.

Tomebagel

Dean820 wrote: »

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Have you ever ran from a taxi without paying? This made a good thread on another forum I post at. Its amazing the amount of people who have the cheek to do it. :eek:

seen it and seen the responses too...:D:D

My name is URL

I never ran from one, but this one time...

I was at the cinema with the biore and after walking her home, preceded to the designated taxi area to await a carriage. On my way there I got mugged at knife-point and handed the nice young fellow my wallet to preserve my life. It shook me up a bit but not horrendously. I was on my way to report it to the shikolonees and decided to go to the taxi strip instead. I told the driver how I was mugged and he was concerned so I played on it, acting all in shock and such so he took me to the garda station and left me home for free :pac: