How I got scammed

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 01:46:27 +0000

TLDR: use apps like uber to prevent taxi scams where they use turbo meter.

The story

We arrived in Vilnius via bus. We were thinking whether to get to your hotel via Uber but we decided to support the local taxi company so we took the taxi that was conveniently waiting at the bus bay, not even at the taxi stand.¹

I did a quick check to see how much an Uber would cost and it seemed like the going rate was 1 EUR/km. Our hotel was about 1.7km away, which meant about 3 EUR. Being unsuspecting tourists, we boarded the taxi without asking for a fixed price, thinking the meter would record it fairly. About half way through, I peeked over the front seat and to my horror, the meter displayed 10 EUR.

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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:55:20 +0800

You haven’t seen london until you’ve taken the night bus.

Adventures on the last train

It was Easter Sunday and I went over to a friend’s in the west for dinner (I stayed at Poplar, Zone 2 in east London). We played some board game afterwards and I planned to leave early enough so I don’t miss the last train. Despite leaving enough time to catch the penultimate train coming from heathrow, it didn’t arrive and I ended up waiting for close to 20 minutes for the last train.

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How I got scammed

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Adventures on the last train