Drunk passenger in his 70s urinates on taxi after asking driver to open door

A heavily intoxicated passenger in his 70s was caught on camera urinating on the back door of a taxi, footage broadcast on television showed.

The passenger told police who responded to the driver's call that he was a former civil servant, and continued to cause a disturbance. Police told the driver there was nothing they could do beyond advising him to pursue a civil lawsuit.

According to JTBC's Sageon Banjang, a crime-news program, a taxi driver in his 30s identified only as A picked up three men in their 70s near a noraebang in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, around 8 p.m. Sunday, bound for Seoul. The men were nowhere to be found at first, and A spent five minutes searching the area before locating them — by which point all three were already heavily drunk.

A said the passengers sang loudly and made noise throughout the ride. At one point, one of them said over the phone that a member of the group had wet his pants, prompting another passenger, identified as B, to say, "I urinated quite a lot."

A realized from the exchange that one of the passengers had boarded the taxi having already wet himself. When A said the passengers would need to cover a car wash if the seat was soiled, B replied, "OK! I'll pay! Don't worry, just drive safely."

After talking a passenger out of relieving himself on the Olympic Bridge and driving for about 30 minutes to the destination, A got out to check the back seat once the passengers had alighted. B, who had admitted to wetting his pants, then asked A to open the rear door — and used it as a screen to urinate directly on the vehicle.

In closed-circuit television footage made public, A confronted B, asking how he could urinate on the car. B said he had been too desperate to wait. When A pointed out that B was urinating in the open and that everything was being recorded, B shot back: "So what do you want me to do? I haven't caused you any harm."

When A threatened to call the police, the group told him to go ahead.

The passengers continued to shout and cause a disturbance even in front of the responding officers, and remained belligerent when warned they could face fines — at one point saying they would go hire women to party with. B in particular refused to show identification, claiming he was a former civil servant.

The group refused to pay for a car wash and went into another noraebang.

Police told A there was nothing they could do if the passengers refused to pay, and that he would have to take the matter to civil court.

A told the program's producers that rain had washed away the evidence, making it difficult to build a case. "I hope men old enough to be my father take a moment to reflect on their lives," A said.

It was not immediately known whether police issued the passengers fines for minor offenses such as public urination or disorderly conduct.