SINGAPORE, Feb. 19 -- A 36-year-old Singaporean woman was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment after she slapped a senior taxi driver during a drunken confrontation over an unpaid fare.

The Straits Times reported that the woman assaulted the 73-year-old cabby after claiming she had neither cash nor cashless payment options to pay her S$24 fare (RM74).

Court documents showed she had boarded the taxi at around 3pm on November 11, smelling strongly of alcohol, and soon fell asleep during the journey.

When the driver woke her upon reaching her destination on Yishun Street 22, she insisted she needed to return to her unit to retrieve the fare.

"The (driver) asked her to leave her phone in the (taxi) and go up to the unit, but she refused. ...