“Good Guy” Taxi Driver Not So Good, Robs Roadside Drunk
By Anthony Tao July 27, 2013 6:02 pm
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Usually, one gets robbed by a taxi driver when he/she takes you on a runaround — the ol’ Third Ring Road tour. In Luoyang, Henan province, however, one driver thought of a much easier way to get a couple hundos.
Check out the above video, taken on July 20 at around 7:30 pm from surveillance cameras at the intersection of Zhoushan and Lixin Roads. Spotting a passed-out drunk, a taxi driver poses as a good guy and checks up on the fella, even picks up his glasses. He then slips the drunk’s wallet from his bag, ducks behind a car, pockets about two hundred kuai, and then returns the wallet.
Cameras catch the thief enter a cab and drive off.
According to the newscast, a security officer watched all of this happen, and immediately alerted the police. (See, Big Brother sometimes has your back.) The driver, surnamed Shi, was detained. He’ll serve a 10-day sentence and pay a 500 yuan fine.
This is not the first time something like this happened, by the way. Almost exactly a year ago, a pedicab driver robbed an unconscious drunk of his cell phone. Five hours later, the thief, surnamed Li, was nabbed by cops.
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