Passenger Left Broken Prison Tag in Grab Car That Allegedly Belongs to Someone ‘On the Run’

As a Grab driver, you get to ferry all sorts of individuals to their destinations.

Some very nice ones while others, well, they’re not going to win Personality of the Year awards.

Well, this Grab driver that we’re going to talk about had an encounter with a rider who caused him to waste three hours.

Passenger Allegedly Left Broken Prison Tag in Grab Car 

On 20 Oct 2020, a Grab driver took to a Facebook Group, PHV Gojek/Grab ( Drivers & Riders SG ), to share his experience.

He asks fellow drivers to check their cars after finishing a shift every single time for items left behind by careless riders after finding this item that’s allegedly left behind by a passenger.

Yes, a broken prison tag.

It looked so suspicious so the driver decided to take it to the police station himself.

3 Hours Wasted

Apparently, the driver was at the police station for quite some time.

The police had to call the Singapore Prison Services (SPS), who had to check with another department.

The procedure, the driver said, was three hours long; and it didn’t help that it was “after-office hours”.

Allegedly Belongs to Someone ‘On the Run’

Not many details were provided in the original post but the driver later returned to give an update on the incident in a comment on the original post.

The driver alleged that a police officer had “secretly” told him that the broken tag belonged to an offender who was “on the run”.

The driver also detailed how he managed to spot the broken device.

Apparently, he had lost his petrol card and was searching for it when he spotted the device.

Was he unknowingly assisting in Prison Break: Singapore Style? Did he manage to see the face of the rider who left the broken device behind?

The first question will, unfortunately, not be answered.

The driver was not sure when the item was left behind, nor did he see who left it behind.

One thing for sure, though, is that the advice of checking your car for belongings that are left behind are valid.

Let’s just hope you’ll be lucky enough to find a $2 notes instead of a 3-hour process like what this driver went through.

Speaking of ridiculous incidents on private-hire vehicles, do you remember the kidnapping incident that a poor Go-Jek driver had to go through back in 2019?

You can read more about it here.