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This is a thread to look back, recall & reminisce about the many scams that some punters pull on us cabbies; some funny, others deadly serious & perhaps dangerous to the cabbie.

So, tell us all about your experience of the many different scams that have been played on you or a cabbie you know by these errant punters.

I'm going to start with a light-hearted one.

Many years ago, when the board game Monopoly was all the rage, there was a group of lads, seemingly respectable & in their mid to late twenties, who although very nice & non-violent, were pulling a scam all over Brum, always at night.

At the end of a journey the lads would get out except for one who would stay in the cab & say, “I’ll get this one!”

He then gave the driver a folded or scrunched-up note or two whilst getting out & said, “Keep the change driver!”

They always stopped & got out by an alleyway or walkway, & they knew a few, & walked off into the dark night.

By the time the drivers had unfolded the bank note/notes, to find that they were 50, 100 or 500 Monopoly notes (& sometimes they just put them down to unfold them later), the passengers had long gone.

Not funny at the time, but when you look back at these incidences, you have to laugh sometimes & think, ‘You b*sta*d’

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I got caught out when a chap said i will leave my takeaway here till i nip up for the money.It looked like a large amount of takeaway so thought nothing of it.When he did not return i checked the bag, the bxstard had ate it before he got in

A guy told me that he had the money at the other end and would leave his mobile phone in the car while he went and got the money. The fare was £30 when we got there.

He put the phone on the dash and said I won't be long. He'd been gone for a few minutes when something told I'd been done, I picked the phone up only to find out it was just a case with nothing inside it. I felt a right tool.

Two young ladies, one besides herself in pain holding her belly.

Take them miles, ok one gets out to get fare, poorly one stays put.

Suddenly poorly one makes miraculous recovery and zooms out of motor never to be seen again.

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Until they appear again some months later on the same rank trying to pull the same scam on a different. One driver notices them and gets out and their trick is rumbled.

We've had divvies like that up here where they tell you to drop them near an alleyway, this is so they can scoot off without paying. Thay are that daft they'll come on the rank the next night and do the same trick to another driver. It didn't take long before the word gets round and these people are noticed.

They get into a car who's driver is a good runner and won't give in until one of them is caught.

Few years back, a seven seater was sent to Linlithgow to pick up a 5 seater hire. The punters all got in the back, bar one, who chose to sit beside the driver. They agreed on a £50 set fare to Glasgow. The driver feeling secure in his E7 and it's hackney locks set off (no MUF), confident of there being no runners at the other end. They got to Glasgow and one of the back four said this'll do for me, handed a tenner through the window to the front seat passenger, and got out. The same thing happened another 3 times within a half mile stretch. The driver was still confident of getting paid as the guy next to him had £40 in his mitt. Cue the this'll do me mate, and as he stopped off went numero 5 and the cash (hack locks aren't on the front doors). A well rehearsed sting that no doubt got them more than a few free runs home from unsuspecting cabbies.

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Last month a driver was telling a decent tale from an experience he had during the snow between Christmas and New Year.

He picked up a couple in the City and they asked to be taken to a small village on the outskirts of the City. The driver struggled through the snow to reach the village. Upon arrival at a large house, the lad pecked the lass on the cheek and bid her goodnight. He then told the driver he wanted to go back to a suburb of Carlisle.

Approaching a Somerfield store with a hole in the wall the lad told the driver he needed to get some cash from the machine, with this the lad got out of the cab and ran off into the distance.

The driver followed, but the lad went into a park and the driver couldnt go through there in the cab.

He got his torch and followed on foot.

He picked up the footprints and followed them, and followed them and followed them, he called the police because he'd followed the footprints to a house!

The police arrived and knocked the lads parents up.

The driver said he wanted the lad arrested, he'd messed around for about half an hour following footprints and spent the other half hour doing the fare.

The lads parents explained to the police the lad couldnt afford to be arrrested as he was home on leave, he had to be back at base the next day.

The driver eventually settled for full fare and a little more for his endeavours!

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I beleive this is my first post, so here goes...



Had a couple in the back of the car once. I'd picked them up before and didn't have any problems.

Just about to drop them off, guy in back says.

"What would you do if I got out without paying and ran off"

"I'd come running after you" I replied.

"Hmm, wouldn't feel very threatened with that mate", now, me being only 5' 6", he did have a point...

"In that case then, I'd run you over" I said.

"Can't do that mate"

"Yes I can, you've just got out without paying, thats fraud"

"Ohhh, fair point mate, not that I would though, seeing as you know where we both live"

Thankfully it was just a bit light hearted banter.