A ride-share app driver's apparent contempt for Taylor Swift unraveled when he assaulted a passenger over a song request.
Bizarre video footage showed Bolt driver Pablo Leiva attacking César Ayala, 20, with the handle of a knife in Asunción, Paraguay on Thursday.
Leiva noticed he was being recorded by Ayala and appeared to punch Ayala, who yelled at him to stop.
After ordering Ayala to get out of the car, Leiva swung the wooden knife handle at him and hit him lightly under the eye.
Ayala responded by kicking Leiva, who got out of the car and attacked him.
“You have a knife, you idiot,” Ayala said to the Leiva before the recording stopped.
Ayala revealed on his Instagram account that he was on his way home after attending a friend's birthday at a local bar when Leiva engaged him in conversation.
The architecture student revealed that he had been drinking alcohol and didn't feel like chatting, and asked him to play some of the Grammy Award winner's hits.
Pablo Leiva was caught on camera assaulting a passenger in Asunción, Paraguay last Thursday after allegedly refusing a request to play Taylor Swift's music
César Ayala (pictured_ explained that he snapped back at Pablo Leiva, a ride-share app driver, after being told he was “disgusting” for listening to Taylor Swift's music and that the pop star singer was a “slut” was
“Everything was going well until he started talking to me about what he was doing and his religious beliefs, making unnecessary and super awkward comments,” Ayala said. 'I was very upset and I really had no interest in listening to him.
“So I told him, 'I'm really not in a state to talk, you better put on some music, I want to listen to Taylor.' Then he started making comments saying he didn't listen to that kind of music and insulting me personally with out of place comments.”
Ayala explained that he snapped back at Leivar after being told he was “disgusting” for listening to Swift's music and that the pop star singer was a “slut.”
“It is clear that I did not remain silent and replied that he could not talk to me like that, that I was a client of Bolt and that I had the right to play my music,” Ayala said. “In a very arrogant manner, the man told me to put my music on the phone and get out of the car, demanding that I pay him for the trip I had already made.”
Ayala said he took out one of his two cellphones to record Leiva, who hit him.
Ayala called a friend, who is also a Bolt driver, and was taken to a local police station.
The police declined to press charges because he had no medical diagnosis.
Pablo Leiva (pictured), a driver for the ride-share app Bolt, used the wooden knife handle to attack César Ayala during the heated argument. The ride-share app company informed Ayala that they could not identify the aggressor because the car's license plates are under someone else's name
César Ayala was attacked by a Bolt driver last Thursday while driving after leaving a bar in Paraguay
Pablo Leiva rushed out of his car while holding a knife after attacking one of his passengers on the rideshare app
The video of the attack caught the attention of Paola Leiva, the driver's daughter, who took to social media to accuse Ayala of criticizing him for being a Christian and trying to do something against him.
“He started making progress in other ways and the straw that broke the camel's back was when this boy tapped him on the shoulder,” Paola said. “Then it exploded, (my father) stopped the car, but the boy wouldn't get out or pay for the trip.”
She acknowledges that her father was wrong for hitting Ayala with the knife.
'The aggression cannot be justified. Justice will take the lead,” she said. “It was wrong for him to attack him, he didn't really want to hit the boy, but he wanted to use the mobile phone because the boy didn't want to go outside. He bothered him, he bothered him, my dad wanted him to get out of the car, but he wouldn't get out.”
“She uses the most basic homophobic argument anyone could ever hear: that because I am an LGBTQ+ man, I want to mess with every man who crosses my path,” Ayala wrote in an Instagram Stories post.
'It's unbelievable how she tries to justify herself and how her daughter tries to defend the indefensible.'
Ayala contacted Bolt and was told the company could not identify the driver because the car's license plates are under a different person's name.
DailyMail.com contacted Bolt for comment.
