They didn’t think they would leave their cellphone on the back seat.
A passenger, whose identity was not revealed, decided to get out of the taxi without paying the agreed-upon fare. The driver, who noticed the attempted escape, said nothing at first. But when the man was already on the sidewalk, someone realized a detail that would change everything: the phone had been left inside the vehicle.
The taxi driver did not hesitate. He started the car and drove away with the cellphone still inside, leaving the passenger running behind, unable to do anything. The scene, recorded and posted on August 17, 2026, on the X account @ceciarmy, quickly went viral under the label ‘instant karma.’ However, the circulating clip is only 28 seconds long, cut from an original video of almost two minutes, which led many users to suspect that it was all staged. Neither Daily Dot nor any other outlet could confirm whether the scene happened exactly as shown.