Jason Sullivan was walking home on a mild September evening when he says a taxi pulled up beside him and a passenger bundled out of its doors and asked him if he could help pay his fare.

The man said the taxi driver wouldn’t take the cash he had and asked if Sullivan could pay with his debit card in exchange for cash. Sullivan recalled the man handed him a banknote, visibly upset.

“So I tried to tap on my phone and that didn’t work, so he said, ‘You have to insert your debit card,'” he told Global News. “I never carry my debit card on me, so I tried again with my phone.”

At that point, Sullivan said the taxi driver told his passenger, a 19-year-old, he’d have to drive him to his parents’ house if he couldn’t pay.

“When I couldn’t pay, then they had already had this scenario played out

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