The young Indian man acted very
fast, he suddenly opened the taxi backseat door and ran away. If I
stopped my taxi and immediately at that time using the center lock
to lock the doors (this is one of the preventive measures I found
out after the accident), then it may delay the Indian male
passenger’s action. Because normally, passenger will pay first then
proceed to open the door.
I should have locked the doors
because I had the suspicion on this male passenger because by
hearing his handphone conversation with his friend about the road
name he mentioned at the time my taxi passing through. I should
have the preparation of my next action at that time but I did not
have that idea which I have it later.
Another mistake was at the time,
when I took out my taxi key & switched on taxi hazard light,
due to hurry, I forgot to close that door which the passenger
opened. I remembered in the racing, I ranked number 4. The Indian
male passenger rank number 1, followed by the those man number 2
& 3 from the temple (They heard my shouting and came out of
temple to help me to chase the passenger). There were number 5
& 6 after me. During racing, I thought of my taxi without
closing the door and without locked was another risk for me. So
after running few block(aroung AMK Blk 222), I gave up chasing and
proceed run back to my taxi. So the temple men also stop
running.
This was the mistake I made, I
should have closed all the taxi doors and locked the taxi first
(that made me without worrying about the taxi and had more energy
to racing) before I chased the passenger. Because the temple men
would keep on chasing if I did not stop. And finally, may be the
passenger would be caught and the justice was done. So by locking
the taxi, that action may make my racing number was 6. But this was
still OK because I was still in the
racing.
Dear onecabby,
The more you post, the more it sound like a make up imaginary
story to me (pardon me if I am wrong), but anyway, let play along
with the CSI.
1. A culprit will always think and plan ahead of the
victim, because he knows what he is going to do and act whereas
you, the victim can only have suspicious.
2. When people wants to commit a run fare, what do you expect,
slowly open the door, walk like an ah pek? or jog like an
uncle me, he is sure to be ready to sprint. Even if you lock
the door, so what, he can also flip the to open at his pax
side.
3. Indian in Singapore are know to be good runner, and who on
earth can anyone beat him? if the men from the temple or you were
1st, you would had caught him? Quite a funny statement here.
There is no mistake in you, for the last half an hour, you are
thinking and planning the road with just a wary note on the paxs,
but for that same half an hour, the pax is already thinking and
planing on cheating you.
