When You Are Riding In A Taxi

Some Taxi drivers collaborate with dubious police officers to put innocent passengers into trouble. When you take a drop or charter a Taxi cab, do not be carried away with reading a newspaper, novel or magazine or playing with your phone or do something that would take your mind from your environment. Watch out carefully whatever is happening along the way.

That cheerful Taxi driver taking you to your destination may be an accomplice of the criminal police officer or even robbers. The driver may engage you in a discussion from politics to personal issues, taking you through a longer route to extract information about you or what you are carrying or have on you. Once he gets to know you have valuables and cash on you, he could alert the police with a sign at a check-point using various methods including beeping the lights of the car, blaring his horn, greeting the officer humorously, whistling at them to pass a message on your financial position. When the police officer gets the signal he could engage you in unnecessary questioning. This may be followed with a serious search on you and the car for any hidden valuables.

Once you find yourself in this mess, it is advisable to simply comply with the officer’s instructions but looking for opportunity to draw the attention of those who could help you. If you think it is dangerous to do so just play along knowing that your life is worth more than that valuable that they want from you. Note that prevention is better than cure. Do not expose your person or how loaded you are with cash or the valuable you are carrying with you through a conversation with the driver in a bid to show-off.