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This astonishing video captures the moment a rip-off rickshaw driver demands £600 from a tourist for a half-hour journey.

In the film, shot by a bystander outside Selfridges in Oxford Street on Friday afternoon, the bearded pedicab driver insists he had “made a deal” with his passenger – something the tourist roundly denies.

“It’s £10 for one minute for one person,” the rider says.

Loud techno music blares out of the cab throughout the lengthy argument.

“How do you charge £600 for half an hour?” asks the incredulous passenger, believed to be a Dutch tourist.

The cyclist, apparently becoming flustered by all the attention, responds: “You were asking me agreement price after the ride. Am I right? Am I right?”

The tourist replies: “You asked me £600 for 30 minutes.”

“We make agreement,” insists the driver, pointing to a price list he claims backs up his demand for £10 a minute.

The passenger vows to go to the police.

Erdi Topalca, another rickshaw driver, told the Standard riders like the one in the film were giving the trade a bad name.

“Half an hour and he asked them for £600? What’s going on?” he said.

“I can’t understand what they’re doing – it’s totally disgusting.

“My normal price is £1 a minute. I could rent a helicopter for £600.”

Mr Topalca called for transport bosses to regulate the trade. Currently there are no official bodies that licence pedicabs.

It comes after a rickshaw driver tried to charge a family of tourists £206 for a one-mile journey from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch.

I could rent a helicopter for £600 Erdi Topalca

Juris Dzjabovic was filmed in July arguing over the sky-high fare, later explaining: “I don’t come cheap. I work my legs hard, I look good and I play good music – you have to pay a lot if you want that kind of luxury.”

Westminster City Council called the video "shocking" and said rickshaws were "a plague on the West End".

"Rickshaws fleece money from tourists, regularly cause major traffic disruption and place the safety of pedestrians and other road users at risk," said Cllr Melvyn Caplan, Westminster's cabinet member for city management.

"We want the government to implement the Law Commission’s recommendations to properly regulate and licence rickshaws as soon as possible, before the situation spirals out of control.”

Do you know the tourist? Have you been victim of a rickshaw rip-off? Contact our news desk on 020 3615 2500 or news@standard.co.uk