I've happened to read an article in the New Paper about a Comfort taxi driver dumping two 14 year old passengers in a deserted dirt-track in Lim Chu Kang at night.
To me, I think it's totally nonsense that the taxi driver is "afraid of the dark". You're in a taxi for goodness sake! How dark can it get? Don't tell me the taxi driver do not know that the area around Lim Chu Kang is dark at night. This is well known among all guys who have undergone army training.
The only conclusion that I can make after reading this article is that the taxi driver is ripping off the two girls!
The girls paid for a service. The service is to bring them safely to Singapore Girl Guides Association Camp at Jalan Bahtera. If you are unable to provide this service, how could you still charge for it? If you do not know the location, then you should not provide the service.
Even if you're afraid of the dark, the decent thing that you should do is to let the girls alight at the main road, or ask them to call the teachers so that the teachers can guide them to the location. Was this done? The taxi driver still has the cheek to collect payment from them!
And to top it all off, Comfort only reprimanded the taxi driver with a final warning and demerit points!!! That's totally unacceptable. Why didn't Comfort investigate why the taxi driver think that the camp is located at the end of a dirt-track? Even army camps are not accessed through dirt tracks. To me, that's the number one reason why I think this is a total rip off!
The taxi driver should be identified and fined if a valid explanation is not given. We're talking about teenagers here, not adults. If there's no deterrence, how do you ensure other taxi drivers will not do the same?
Must it lead to a serious accident before something is done about it?
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