Pedicab takes tourist for $165 New Year’s Eve ride!

This pedicab trip makes Uber's surge pricing look reasonable.

A man visiting the city with his family was cheated on New Year's Eve by a rickshaw driver who charged him $165 to ride about 15 blocks in Midtown, The Post has learned.

Ken Smith, 41, a Red Cross worker living in Haiti, was sightseeing in Manhattan with his daughter, Samantha, and wife, Peothong, when they took a pedicab ride from Herald Square to Rockefeller Center.

The cabby hit them with a bill for $165, illegally charging per rider and using his feet to cover his sign on which prices were printed in small type, Smith said.

"It's a rickshaw. I thought, 'How much can it cost?' " Smith said.

The driver asked for a tip, but Smith told him the fare itself was already too much.

"I felt like I was robbed," said Smith, who is originally from Wisconsin but has traveled all over Southeast Asia and Africa.

"We saw and know most of the scams all over the planet, and, sadly, we're victims to one in our own country."

Smith and his wife paid the driver, who claimed the way he calculated the fare was company policy.

"We could have taken a 15-minute trip in a helicopter," Smith said. "Then at the end, you really get socked. It's a shame. It happened to me in New York, of all places."

Smith has done recovery work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and his wife owns a toy company in Laos.
He has lived abroad doing humanitarian work for the past 20 years.

Still, Smith said they hope to return to the city soon.

"We still love New York City," he said.

He said that he used Square, a credit-card payment app, on the driver's cracked iPhone to pay the fare and that he reported the rip-off to 311 Thursday.

Drivers are required to prominently display their rates and their company information. They are banned from per-passenger fees.

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