A kindhearted Thai woman shared a video on TikTok of the moment she helped a struggling taxi driver. She paid the driver an extra 2,350 baht to replace his broken meter.

 

The video was posted on the TikTok account, @worldmj on Tuesday, September 12. The video caption read…

 

“Travelling for several kilometres, but the meter does not count it. What Should I do?”

 

In the video, the woman asked the taxi driver why the meter stopped at 49 baht when she had already reached her destination. The driver explained that the meter was broken. He could not afford to buy a new one, but he could not stop working either, even if it meant earning less.

 

The woman then asked the driver how much the new meter would cost. The driver replied that it would cost him 2,350 baht.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Caption: Photo via TikTok @worldmj

 

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They don’t just rip off tourists. 

Thanks for the dosh love, I'd better put the fuse back in now. 

Hmm, taxi meters these days are digital - no moving parts. They are fed by an electrical pulse from the cars odometer. These will be either a straight connection from the electrical odometer, or a pulse generated by a gadget inserted in the odometer cable if it has a mechanical drive. Both are very cheap. It's a dozen years since I had such a drive replaced in the UK, but it only cost a few quid.

 

Meters are invariably "broken" because they have either been physically disconnected, (often by a switch inserted in the wiring) or have had a botched attempt to reprogramme them.