At the beginning of December 2013, a Swedish tourist made a video on how taxi drivers overcharge in Prague and posted it on YouTube. It is rumoured all over the world that Prague’s taxi drivers often rip customers off, and also most guidebooks about Prague warn about it. Consequently owner of this video was threaten by AAA Taxi for abusing their logo and was forced to delete that video in order to avoid been sue.
The tourist got angry that he paid double prices for two trips. “So I began to shoot the taximeter,” said Emilian Sava from Gothenburg. When driving, the taxi driver pulled a place near the gear lever – the so-called turbo – and the amount on the taximeter began to grow rapidly. Why did the tourist begin to make a video? He noted that the taximeter ran quite quickly during one trip and he was surprised at it. “I was ripped off during four out of five trips in that way and I shot it twice.”
“Every second taxi driver rips off,” says the managing director of AAA Radiotaxi. The paradox is that it was just that company’s driver who was captured on the video ripping his client off.
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