Where to start with this?
The news site has screengrabs from the TikTok video (viewed 1 million times
), but they've blanked the scrote's face out, so just as well to view the video directly on TikTok anyway.
Lots that can be said about this, but he's only been in Glasgow a couple of years, and came there from India. But the video is captioned 'It's Not Safe Anymore in Glasgow'. I suppose you have to laugh
Anyway, it's not the unsafest incident drivers are likely to come across. But not sure I'd have handled it the way the driver did. The scrote doesn't seem the most threatening type, but you never know with that sort
And if he's so traumatised by this that he has to take the rest of the day off, then I don't know how long he'll last. It says he's been doing the job for 11 months, and has already been threatened with a knife over an other fare incident...
Link to the video in the next post, but maybe better to read the piece first.
Glasgow taxi driver conned as 'embarrassing' youth flees without paying fare
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glas ... g-34562119Saim Ali explained that "it's not about the £16" but a lack of respect from passengers who try to dodge their fare.A Glasgow taxi driver has opened up on the woes faced by city cabbies after an "embarrassing" youth fled without paying his fare. Saim Ali, 30, was left "sad and [edited by admin] off" when a young man dodged a fare costing around £16 on Monday afternoon (August 31).
Mr Ali says he picked the young man up from the Bridgeton area and drove him for around 25 minutes to Mosspark. The fare was initially agreed to be paid by cash when the call for the taxi was made.
But dashcam footgage of the incident posted by Mr Ali, which has been viewed over a million times on TikTok, showed the young person flee the taxi without paying the fare.
Mr Ali, who has been working as a taxi driver for just under a year, told Glasgow Live: "To be honest, I was so sad after this happened. I sat in the car for nearly an hour afterwards thinking 'what the hell?'
"It was my first hire of the day, and I didn't work the rest of the day because I thought, 'if this can happen, maybe it's not going to be a good day for me'."
Initially, Mr Ali says the customer told him he had the cash to pay the fare. But upon arrival near the destination, he said he had to leave the vehicle to collect cash from a friend.
The taxi driver then asked him to leave his phone in the car as an assurance that the young man was not trying to dodge the fare.
Mr Ali, who moved to Glasgow from Lahore in Pakistan in 2023, added: "I asked if he could leave his phone inside so I could wait for him, because that's usually what customers do.
"It's a guarantee that the customer will come back and bring the fare."
The young man then phoned a friend, who spoke to Mr Ali and said they could pay the fare by bank transfer. At this point Mr Ali was holding the customer's phone.
After more back and forth, Mr Ali said he would continue the conversation with the customer outside the vehicle, where the youth "snatched" his phone out the taxi driver's hand and ran away.
The video clip shows the young person sprinting away from the taxi into the distance and disappearing round a corner.
Mr Ali said the incident left him feeling deflated after missing out on his well-earned fare.
Mr Ali said: "I'm here to make a better living as a legal immigrant. You're driving someone, you're giving your best, you're keeping your car clean and tidy, and then you end up with this kind of stuff.
"In the last 11 months, I've had five or six bad experiences."
He explained another situation in which a young woman refused to pay her fare at the end of the journey, when Mr Ali says her boyfriend came out of the house and threatened him with a knife.
He added: "There are positive stories, around 80 per cent [of the time], but even this 20 per cent of bad stories are a big concern...
He explained that "it's not about the £16" but the lack of respect for the person who had taken him to his destination safely.
"It really [edited by admin] me off. I came here for a better life and things like this raise a concern for my safety."
But Mr Ali added that he "loves" living in Scotland adding: "The Scottish people are the most amazing people in the world, I would say, but these 20 per cent [of bad people] are everywhere, not just in Scotland.
"And these kinds of people create a bad image for a particular country."
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