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Man with only ¥200 arrested for failing to pay ¥24,000 taxi fare

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Police in Takigawa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 57-year-old unemployed man after he was unable to pay a 24,000 yen taxi fare in Hokkaido on Saturday night. The man only had 200 yen on him at the time.

According to police, the man, who lives in Shiroishi Ward, Sapporo, got into a taxi in Atsubetsu Ward, and asked the driver to take him to Takigawa city, about 90 kilometers away, Hokkaido Hoso reported. The taxi driver, who said the man was drunk, told him the fare would be about 25,000 yen and the man said OK.

However, when they arrived in Takigawa, the man told the driver he didn’t have any money. The driver took him to a police station where the man emptied his pockets. He had 200 yen on him.

Police said the man told them he knew he might be arrested but did not explain why he wanted to go from Sapporo to Takigawa.

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A pretty expensive joyride then. Taxi drivers already had it hard enough as it is.

-7 ( +4 / -11 )

Just bill him and then send it to a collection agency.if he doesn't pay. No need for arrest. Do they have collection agencies in Japan?

0 ( +3 / -3 )

We've all done silly things when drunk but damn is that one expensive drunk oops! moment.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

How about all those cashless payment options, or even more simply, the driver asks the guest in those rare cases of extraordinary long distances to show the to be expected amount beforehand, or last but not least, like they do at travel agencies, paying demands of the half beforehand and the other half after service fulfillment.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

haha!

That'll be 24k...

sure no problems...

I have ¥200 LMAO

-1 ( +2 / -3 )

I knew this English chick who tried to do a runner from the taxi after a night out in Tokyo...bill was around the same as the story......gets out and legs it but forgot all about her brother who was fast asleep in the taxi.....

6 ( +6 / -0 )

Do they have collection agencies in Japan?

here, yakuza are famous for running money collection agencies and high interest money loans. If you don’t pay up, expect yourself clearing radioactive rubble at Fukushima Daiichi NPP.

5 ( +5 / -0 )

I drove cab on year as a student. Most rides, like every taxi driver knows, are local or defined routes (to airport etc).

They told me then if someone hops in and says let's take a 100 km ride, first thing you asked was let's see the cash (not do you have the cash). This was before taxis took credit cards.

4 ( +4 / -0 )

In a similar case, a woman who took a taxi from Tokyo to Nagoya and refused to pay was found innocent of all charges because:

She clearly stated that she had no money. She told the taxi driver “I have no money, but someone in Nagoya does.”

Her defense claimed that she never promised payment, and never guaranteed that someone in Nagoya would pay her fare, she simply stated “someone in Nagoya” has money.

5 ( +6 / -1 )

Scumbag drunk. Sounds like my ex-brother-in-law

2 ( +2 / -0 )

Didn't the drunkard have credit cards or use his smartphone to pay?

-1 ( +0 / -1 )

Do unemployed people in Japan have credit cards and money on their smartphones?

1 ( +1 / -0 )

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