UK pedicab driver adopts tuk tuk tactics, forced to return lassies’ swindled quid

A pedicab driver in London who swindled two female passengers out of 180 pounds has been forced to return the money, after the Westminster City Council requested a crackdown on the city’s bicycle rickshaw “nuisance.”

The driver originally charged 18 pounds for a 3 minutes trip, but then increased the price by a factor of 10 at the last minute, adding a zero at the end, the women reported.

For expats in Thailand, it sounds like a page cut from the Thailand tuk tuk playbook.

Fortunately, local police tracked down the driver and made him return the ill-gotten cash during a weekend crackdown that lasted from the Saturday evening into the early hours of Sunday morning.

Heather Acton, a communities and regeneration cabinet member, said it was time for the government to take action and ensure pedicab drivers would take safety checks and pay road tax in the West End, which is…