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File Photograph: Naas Courthouse.
A breakdown in taxi fare negotiation resulted in one man making an appearance at Naas District Court on Thursday, January 11 last.
The man was charged with refusing to pay a taxi fare.
He told Judge Desmond Zaidan that he was charged €120 over what should have been a €30 journey in County Kildare.
Although he offered to pay the taxi driver €70, the taxi driver refused his offer.
"It was an outrageous price," the man said: "I also told the gardaí that he (the taxi driver) should have had a (dashcam) camera in his car."
Gardaí noted that his reply after caution was: "Do you not think I have been ripped off?"
When Judge Zaidan asked the man if he accepted that he did not pay the taxi driver, he replied: "Yes, I did not pay it because it was an outrageous fare."
The judge applied the Probation Act on the man for the offence.
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