A DRIVER has been accused of making his taxi meter tick over more quickly by linking it with an illegal device to his car radio volume control: pump up the volume, pump up the price.
The meter was fixed so that fiddling with the radio controls ran up a fare of more than $100 in under five minutes.
And this could happen even with the taxi at a standstill.
The deception was discovered during an undercover operation by a police officer from the newly established Traffic Enforcement squad.
Superintendent Sydney Fung Kwok-on said the driver had siphoned additional power into the meter, effectively forcing it to tick over much faster.
'The system was a sophisticated device which connected one end to the radio and the other to the meter,' he said.
