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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1044/
- Published: 2024-09-08T18:30:39.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-08T18:30:38.000Z
- Description: “He told me that ‘this is my country, you are my servant’,” Rajnish Trehan recalled.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> All[ Auckland bus](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/auckland-transport/?ref=goodoil.news) driver Rajnish Trehan wanted was for an unruly passenger who refused to pay to stop shouting and show some respect to other public transport users.  
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> But his request for some common decency was met first with the passenger saying, “This is my country, you are my servant”, and then with violence.  
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> After his racially charged tirade, the man unleashed a vicious punch to Trehan’s face that left him requiring hospital treatment and urgent dental care for a dislodged tooth. \[...\]  
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> Trehan said the man was the last of three passengers to board his bus in [Great North Road, Avondale.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/avondale/?ref=goodoil.news)  
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> As is common, he did not tap his Auckland Transport HOP card to pay, Trehan said.   
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> I said, ‘Mate, you need to tag on’.”  
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> The man responded saying he was only going to New Lynn, just down the road. Trehan said he still needed to tag on.  
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> He again refused to tag on and began shouting, Trehan said.  
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> The driver relented, as Trehan said they are often forced to with unruly and unstable passengers. It’s not worth the trouble sometimes, he said.  
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> Trehan said he told him he could go and have a seat \[...\]  
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> The passenger responded by saying that Trehan should instead show him some respect “because this country is my country”.  
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> “He told me that ‘this is my country, you are my servant’,” Trehan recalled.

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