Thieving taximan

Hoboo · 17-09-2019 4:56pm

Mr.Frame wrote: »

So perhaps change the title of your thread.
Not all taxi drivers are bad people

Says taximan, not taximen

TheShow · 17-09-2019 4:57pm

listermint wrote: »

What a stupid bit of advice.

Report it, it's a crime.

How is someone losing their phone a crime?

Mr.Frame · 17-09-2019 5:00pm

Two friends of mine from the US got a taxi from Dublin Airport last June and were dropped at the Morrison Hotel.

My friend hadnt realised that she had left her purse with all her money,cards,IDs in it, in the taxi.

Obviously she had no way of contacting the driver and so she cancelled cards ect but was quite upset about things.

About 30 mins later the hotel got a call from the driver who said he found the purse and to tell my friend not to worry ,that he would drop it back within the hour.
Apparently, he was back in the airport waiting for another fare.

True to form he arrived back an hour or so with the purse,with all the contents in it untouched.

My friend offered him a reward for coming back but he wouldnt take anything.She even insisted, but he refused,he was just glad she got her purse back.

My friend from US couldnt believe how a taxi driver would go out of his way to drop it back to her and how very honest and decent he was.

A lot of taxi drivers get a lot of crap from people, but you seldom hear of the good decent men and women out there .

Mr.Frame · 17-09-2019 5:02pm

Hoboo wrote: »

Says taximan, not taximen

Good grief !!!

It says "thieving taximan" , he clearly wasnt

Hoboo · 17-09-2019 5:35pm

Mr.Frame wrote: »

Good grief !!!

It says "thieving taximan" , he clearly wasnt

We clearly don't know that, no one knows. But let's be honest, if you'd to put the house on it....

GerardKeating · 17-09-2019 5:49pm

martingriff wrote: »

Does your wife's phone not have a pin to turn it back on. If so how did he turn it off and then on. If she does not have a pin have one on it immediately

Or he did not turn if off as OP thinks, but went somewhere with no coverage, for example an underground car park.

martingriff · 17-09-2019 8:53pm

GerardKeating wrote: »

Or he did not turn if off as OP thinks, but went somewhere with no coverage, for example an underground car park.

Thats what I was getting at plus his assertion of it was at his place so that proves it was also stupid. As I have 2 taxi people living near me and both have there cars at there house so if the phone was in the car it would stand to reason it was at his house if he brings his car home

pablo128 · 17-09-2019 8:57pm

If he's not a thief, where's the 50 euro gone?

Portsalon · 17-09-2019 8:59pm

pablo128 wrote: »

If he's not a thief, where's the 50 euro gone?

Can you swear on your granny's grave that it was there in the first place?

pablo128 · 17-09-2019 9:02pm

Portsalon wrote: »

Can you swear on your granny's grave that it was there in the first place?

Yes I swear. Now where's the 50?

Portsalon · 17-09-2019 9:08pm

pablo128 wrote: »

Yes I swear. Now where's the 50?

Probably in the garda station.

Get Real · 17-09-2019 9:12pm

olestoepoke wrote: »

This is ridiculous, really there is nothing they can do?

It's not that ridiculous really

https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19297?locale=en_US

Apple saying themselves its approximate. It also depends on phone masts, wifi quality, and even weather.

Or if you open Google maps on your phone, sometimes it shows me in the house a few doors down, or next door. Or have you ever been on holidays walking somewhere and the dot is not calibrated?

What if the phone shows in a building that contains 50 apartments over 5 floors, which one is a search warrant gotten for? Or a hotel?

Find my phone is part gimmick/ part luck. Might be useful if you're in a public street and you walk to the location and see someone with it. Not so useful if it shows a building with numerous people in it/apartment with many different floors and residences/ house beside the actual house it's in.

Also not useful if it's been turned off, and is only showing the last (approximate) location, when in fact it's now in a CEX shop/sold to a randomer and has a new sim and has been wiped.

bladespin · 18-09-2019 11:51am

pablo128 wrote: »

If he's not a thief, where's the 50 euro gone?

Just because it's gone does not automatically make the taximan a thief :rolleyes:

PatsyJ · 18-09-2019 5:54pm

db wrote: »

If he kept it and didn't return it, that's theft.

Is it?

PatsyJ · 18-09-2019 5:57pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Can't you turn on the phone from the find my phone app?

No.

Mrcaramelchoc · 18-09-2019 6:08pm

i think we should find the taxi driver stone him and then lynch him then burn out his taxi kill every generation of his family and dance on their graves.

20Wheel · 18-09-2019 6:08pm

bladespin wrote: »

Just because it's gone does not automatically make the taximan a thief :rolleyes:

was there even 50 in the first place.
we've only got the slightly merry word of Ditzy McPhonedropper to go on.

hic!!

iamtony · 18-09-2019 7:41pm

I'm a taxi driver and I always give stuff back.

When I was getting a new van a few years ago I was cleaning out the old van and I found an iPhone 6 which was the newest at the time and it had a Verizon SIM card so it was someone from the US. I charged it up and the sim was deactivated and no message to say call this number or anything. Then a message popped up and said phone hasn't been backed up in 28 weeks or something like that. Oops!
I tried to give it back even still but couldnt. Apple website just said contact your local police station.
Anyway the reason I posted this is to show how easy these things can happen and nearly all drivers will try to get stuff back to the owners so don't judge till you know the story!

pablo128 · 18-09-2019 8:40pm

iamtony wrote: »

I'm a taxi driver and I always give stuff back.

When I was getting a new van a few years ago I was cleaning out the old van and I found an iPhone 6 which was the newest at the time and it had a Verizon SIM card so it was someone from the US. I charged it up and the sim was deactivated and no message to say call this number or anything. Then a message popped up and said phone hasn't been backed up in 28 weeks or something like that. Oops!
I tried to give it back even still but couldnt. Apple website just said contact your local police station.
Anyway the reason I posted this is to show how easy these things can happen and nearly all drivers will try to get stuff back to the owners so don't judge till you know the story!

That's good to hear, and I'd like to believe most people would be the same.

As usual it's the actions of a few that give the rest a bad name. In the OPs case, I think he got a bad one. Having known many taxi drivers from my days as a mechanic, I know only too well there are some dodgy ones around.

martingriff · 19-09-2019 12:05am

pablo128 wrote: »

That's good to hear, and I'd like to believe most people would be the same.

As usual it's the actions of a few that give the rest a bad name. In the OPs case, I think he got a bad one. Having known many taxi drivers from my days as a mechanic, I know only too well there are some dodgy ones around.

Really I have had 1 bad experience with a taxi driver not to do with a theft but did not believe all taxi's were the same. Are you sure its just not 1 person giving a sweeping generalization

the boss of me · 19-09-2019 3:08am

pablo128 wrote: »

Having known many taxi drivers from my days as a mechanic, I know only too well there are some dodgy ones around.

Pot , kettle, Black.

Sleeper12 · 19-09-2019 7:58am

PatsyJ wrote:

No.

But it can still be traced while turned off

Skatedude · 20-09-2019 12:49am

Sleeper12 wrote: »

But it can still be traced while turned off

Not with any software that the public has access to.

Thieving taximan

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