Big tipper: China taxi driver pulls out all the stops to find, refund drunk woman passenger who overpaid fare by US$24,000
- Drunk woman pays too much after being helped into cab by friend
- Driver alerts police, taxi firm, digital payment platform, media to find her
A concerned taxi driver who went out of his way to look for a passenger who had accidentally overpaid her fare by a staggering 170,000 yuan (US$24,000) because she was drunk, has won praise on mainland social media.
Du Liming, who works for an affiliate of Guangzhou Public Transport Group, eventually succeeded in finding the passenger, surnamed Chen, after persevering with his search for five days.
The incident occurred at about 3am on December 14 after Chen’s friend had to help her into Du’s cab following a night out.
At the end of her journey, Chen swiped the QR code on her payment card for the fare that should have been 60 yuan (US$8).
It was not until the end of his shift that Du looked at the Alipay account he seldom used for fare payments and was shocked to see the additional amount of 170,000 yuan.
“At first I thought I had read the number wrong, ” he said.
