Car-hailing Driver: Rewards from Complaints-Chapter 273 - 167: Sir, They’ve Brought You Another Banner
After hanging up the phone, Yang Chen sent a message to Zhang Xiang and Chen Qingxia, asking them to come over immediately.
Then Yang Chen got out of the car and went to the scene of the incident to greet Zhao Ying with a wave.
"Hello, junior. I’m Yang Chen."
Seeing how tall, strong, and handsome the senior was, Zhao Ying immediately felt a surge of safety.
"Senior, when I got out of the car and opened the door, I accidentally bumped into this old lady. They’re asking me for 200,000 yuan, but I don’t have that much money to pay. Boo hoo..." Zhao Ying complained tearfully to Yang Chen.
The leader of the extortion gang was a burly man with tattoos, looking fierce and intimidating.
Not just Zhao Ying, even the driver was too scared to speak.
However, the Bibi driver recognized Yang Chen and cautiously asked, "Are you Brother Chen, the president of our Bibi Drivers’ Union?"
Yang Chen nodded with a smile and said, "Yes! I am Yang Chen."
The driver paused for a moment, then quickly stepped forward to greet Yang Chen, saying, "Hello, Brother Chen, I’m also a driver on our platform. My name is Song Yixue. I thought you looked familiar. I saw you at headquarters last time, where your heroic feat of forcing the headquarters to change the rules has spread among us drivers."
"I was just fighting for my own rights; it’s nothing worth mentioning," Yang Chen replied.
Song Yixue hurriedly explained the situation to Yang Chen. According to him, it was true that Zhao Ying accidentally knocked over the old lady with the car door, what people often refer to as a ’dooring’ incident.
Zhao Ying quickly explained, "I didn’t do it on purpose! Just as I was getting out of the car, the driver called out to me, so I opened the door at that moment and didn’t see the old lady coming. I really didn’t do it on purpose. Boo hoo..."
Yang Chen nodded with a smile and comforted her, "I know, it’s okay, don’t be afraid, I’m here."
By now, the neighborhood security guard and passing residents were gathering around.
"What’s going on?"
"Seems like the young girl opened the door and knocked over the old lady."
"Sigh, there are always people who don’t check for others or cars before opening their doors."
"I got knocked over by a fool opening their car door on my electric bike last month, and they paid me 50,000."
"Looks like this young girl isn’t very old and her parents might have to take responsibility."
...
Hearing the crowd’s discussion, the gang felt emboldened instantly.
At this moment, the tattooed burly man took two steps forward and came up to Yang Chen, saying, "It seems you’re some sort of leader? How do you think this should be resolved?"
"That depends on how you want to resolve it. The outcome completely depends on your gang’s choice," Yang Chen replied.
If they ask for less, they’ll get a shorter sentence; if they ask for more, they’ll get a longer sentence. It really is their choice that decides their fate.
The burly man pointed at Yang Chen and said, "Hey, explain yourself. What do you mean by that? What gang are you talking about? I warn you, don’t speak carelessly, or I’ll beat you up."
Song Yixue quickly stepped in to stop him, saying, "Brother, let’s talk it through, calm down."
Yang Chen pointed to the car not far away and said, "That’s my car. The entire process of your actions was recorded by my dashcam."
Seeing Yang Chen’s car, Song Yixue’s expression changed a bit.
The burly man and his group looked at the old lady, who immediately said, "Well, great, your dashcam serves as evidence of her opening the door and knocking me over."
This was the old lady sending a signal to her accomplices, meaning her act was flawless and they could hold their ground.
They were a gang where everyone understood each other well.
With a glance or a word, they knew what it meant.
Receiving the old lady’s hint, the burly man confidently said, "Did you hear that? My mom said your dashcam is evidence. Today, no matter what you say, she must pay."
Yang Chen nodded and asked again, "How much are you asking for?"
With a smug face, the burly man said, "700,000!"
This price shocked the onlookers.
"Whoa, this is a bit too much extortion!"
"I got hospitalized for over half a month from a collision, and was only compensated 50,000. But now you’re asking 700,000 right off the bat, that’s a bit excessive."
"That’s enough, extorting like this is illegal too."
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Because the law doesn’t punish this kind of scam heavily, some people love doing it.
Before, Yang Chen had seen a case online where an old lady falsely claimed a young girl’s toy car knocked her over, insisting the parents should pay.
There are also cases where older people fell or got bumped and then falsely accused the good-hearted people who helped them up, which is also a type of scam.
There are too many such cases; you could sit and talk about it for more than half a month without finishing.
In the antique business, there’s a saying: they don’t do business for three years, then do one huge deal that feeds them for three years.
The same applies to their scamming activities, lying low for three years, and then pulling off one big con to get rich overnight.
Zhao Ying immediately scolded, "Why don’t you just go rob someone? Weren’t you asking for 200,000 just now, and now it’s suddenly 700,000?"
The burly man replied with a smile, "Earlier I didn’t see my mom’s jade bracelet was broken, so I only asked for medical fees, lost wages, nutrition fees, totaling 200,000. But now that the bracelet is broken, the price has changed. We bought this jade bracelet at a legitimate store and have an invoice, it was 498,000. My mom has an emotional attachment to it after wearing it for three years, asking you for 500,000 isn’t unreasonable, right?"
The old lady remembered the bracelet and quickly took the broken jade bracelet out of her pocket.
"Oh dear, it’s really broken! Oh my, it cost me 498,000! I’ve worn it for three years and got so attached, and you’ve broken it!" the old lady sobbed.
