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Ghost Taxis of Japan (2016)
- ALittleLight 7y agoIn a not too distant future, when taxis have been replaced by driverless cars these ghosts will cause a real problem. I can imagine being tasked with figuring out why we sometimes lose fares. "Yep. Another passenger faded into nothing without paying. Resolve as 'ghost passenger.'"
- mshroyer 7y agoOr alternately, there's no such thing as ghosts, and this isn't a problem that anyone based in reality needs to deal with.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoThe comment you replied to is talking about fare dodgers, not actual ghosts.
- mshroyer 7y agoAh sorry, that was a dumb reply on my part
- yoz-y 7y agoHow do you not pay for an Uber right now? Your card has to be valid to be able to get a ride in the first place.
- popotamonga 7y agoDont have enough balance. I have a 40e uber bill to pay on my revolut but not enough balance. They keep trying to charge.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoEventually they will pass that to a collections agency. In your position I would just pay.
- cortic 7y agoGot to have a look into revolut, my bank will charge £40 for not paying a charge and as high as 300% interest if they allow the charge and it puts me past my overdraft.
- yoz-y 7y agoI assume though that this works at most once per card.
- choonway 7y agoIt's 7th (ghost) month here in Singapore. Same thing happens here. Solution? Organize concerts (getai) for them. https://www.todayonline.com/8days/seeanddo/thingstodo/hungry-ghost-festival-superstitions-getai-performers-follow https://www.todayonline.com/8days/seeanddo/thingstodo/hungry...
- tomcam 7y agoAnyone familiar with urban legends will recognize these themes as almost identical to stories passed down through the generations in the USA for roughly 80 years. Pretty cool to learn they aren’t unique to this area.
- sampo 7y agoThere is also a version of the vanishing hitchhiker in the bible, Acts 8:26-39.
- JoeDaDude 7y agoOld joke: A hitchhiker, looking for a ride late at night, gets into a car that is traveling very slowly. Once in, he realizes the car has no driver! Soon, the car going very slowly up a hill, reaches a graveyard. At this point, the hitchhiker jumps out of the car and flees in terror. He looks back and sees someone getting into the car. He yells back "Don't get in!! That car is haunted!". The person getting in replies, "It can't be, I've been pushing it uphill for the last hour".
- krapp 7y agoProbably a bit off topic, but here is voice actress Tomoko Kaneda in a "ghost taxi" skit on the Japanese TV show Monitoring[0]. [0]https://youtu.be/IdFuMsRrzj8 https://youtu.be/IdFuMsRrzj8 (and yes just in case anyone's wondering, that reaction is completely staged...)