Drunken U.S. Soldier Arrested After Being Caught on Camera Beating Seoul Taxi Driver
This drunken idiot gets to experience the full extent of the Korean court system:
A member of the United States Forces Korea (USFK) has been arrested after beating up a taxi driver so badly that the victim could not work for a number of days, according to the police in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on Sunday.
Korea Times
The aggressor’s attack was recorded by a black-box video camera installed inside the taxi at about 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 27. He threw punches at the victim, who is 58 years old, using both arms as the driver took the beating whilst trying to guard his head with his hands.
The American then returned to Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, right across the road from where the incident happened. The aggressor left his wallet on the back seat of the taxi, where his identification card was found. Officers from Seongnam Sujeong Police Station arrived at the scene after the soldier fled the scene. The authorities said that they will call in the aggressor to the police station for questioning.
You can read more at the link, but the assault happened after the Soldiers credit card was declined for payment. The driver for his part is smartly playing up his injuries as much as possible trying to get as much money from the U.S. military as he can.
Going out alone and getting drunk, alone, off base, has no consequences…
Maybe in a daydream or sitcom…
Seems like using a card to pay a taxi was one of the things they told us NEVER to do when I was over there on business. And that’s a silver taxi, too… Whenever I was forced to travel at night, I traveled in a largish group by bus or by black taxi. More expensive; but less dangerous. And the drivers were always more courteous.
Then again, I was a dummy at 19, too. Not dumb enough to attack a taxi driver in a foreign country and leave my ID behind; but let’s just leave it at that.
And the fellow who put him in the cab was no friend. If he was too drunk to catch a cab by himself, he was too drunk to take a cab by himself.