Thought I could start a thread for people to post their funny / weird stories.
I'll start off..
My gf and I were in Havana and went to a cabaret show. Had a few drinks and after the show got a taxi to the hotel which was about a 10 min drive away. I was being tight and was asking a few taxi drivers for the cheapest rate. We stumbled across this driver which seemed legit and he said 15 cuc (cuc is pegged to the dollar 1/1).
We arrived at the hotel (more like casa) and I gave my gf my wallet to get the money out. I got out of the rear right passenger seat. My gf paid and then about 5 seconds after the taxi drove off I realised that my brand new Samsung note phone wasn't in my pocket. We shouted and ran after the taxi but he didn't stop...
Being in Havana means you do not have cellular internet unless you get these internet access cards which give you like 2hr wifi access in certain spots for 5 cuc. We went to one of these zones and tried to find my phone but no luck...
Next day we went to the Cuban police station in Havana. It felt quite shady, and we thought we was going to get locked up for some reason. We explained the story and a soon while later was in the back of a Cuban police car with two officers.
They wanted to do a re-run of what happened and so drove us to the cabaret show. It was quite funny as we were in the back and the officers were smoking cigars.. bit like in the movies. They also do this funny thing where they just beep cars out of the way instead of using a siren.
We got to the cabaret show and they spoke to the staff and asked for any cctv etc... Nothing came out of it. They then drove us to our hotel where they did a test. Because I thought the driver had leaned over from the left driver seat to my seat and took my phone out of my pocket. The test was could a person in the driver seat lean over and reach to the rear right seat. They ruled it "IMPOSSIBLE" ...
...They wrote up a report of it and then got a translator to translate it from Spanish to English. We then had to go back to the station and they were about 5 officers around us and they said they couldn't do anything and said we were free to continue our holiday....
Upon reflection we should have just forgotten about the phone and not reported it as it was a waste of time, but the Cuban police car journey was quite fun.
I'll start off..
My gf and I were in Havana and went to a cabaret show. Had a few drinks and after the show got a taxi to the hotel which was about a 10 min drive away. I was being tight and was asking a few taxi drivers for the cheapest rate. We stumbled across this driver which seemed legit and he said 15 cuc (cuc is pegged to the dollar 1/1).
We arrived at the hotel (more like casa) and I gave my gf my wallet to get the money out. I got out of the rear right passenger seat. My gf paid and then about 5 seconds after the taxi drove off I realised that my brand new Samsung note phone wasn't in my pocket. We shouted and ran after the taxi but he didn't stop...
Being in Havana means you do not have cellular internet unless you get these internet access cards which give you like 2hr wifi access in certain spots for 5 cuc. We went to one of these zones and tried to find my phone but no luck...
Next day we went to the Cuban police station in Havana. It felt quite shady, and we thought we was going to get locked up for some reason. We explained the story and a soon while later was in the back of a Cuban police car with two officers.
They wanted to do a re-run of what happened and so drove us to the cabaret show. It was quite funny as we were in the back and the officers were smoking cigars.. bit like in the movies. They also do this funny thing where they just beep cars out of the way instead of using a siren.
We got to the cabaret show and they spoke to the staff and asked for any cctv etc... Nothing came out of it. They then drove us to our hotel where they did a test. Because I thought the driver had leaned over from the left driver seat to my seat and took my phone out of my pocket. The test was could a person in the driver seat lean over and reach to the rear right seat. They ruled it "IMPOSSIBLE" ...
...They wrote up a report of it and then got a translator to translate it from Spanish to English. We then had to go back to the station and they were about 5 officers around us and they said they couldn't do anything and said we were free to continue our holiday....
Upon reflection we should have just forgotten about the phone and not reported it as it was a waste of time, but the Cuban police car journey was quite fun.
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