Taxi Driver gets a little too frisky

yeah it has, it used to say hilarious but i was feeling sooo much love for my choice of word that i invoked editorial privilege and changed it.

Sands, this guy might have claimed it was every week, but its STILL ONLY ONE GUY. bit unfair to paint all cabbies with the same brush.

Maelinar: the original story has been changed since my comment.

But Jazz, the point is it isn’t just two cases. This guy said it was EVERY friday and saturday nights. He was guaranteed to ‘get some’ and would even target drunk ones walking along the side of the road.

As for the second. I wont go in to detail but it was quite serious and the police were involved. I think based on those two examples (one involving several incidents) that I can suggest it’s a social concern. Particularly if you have daughters.

Danman – you sound a little nervous…

Actually if you look at the original ABC story, down the bottom right is an also of interest bit that lists a number of similar stories, some dating back a number of months though. So while we are not having an epidemic of horny-cab drivers, these things seem to happen often enough to be cause for some eyebrow raising.

Don’t. Believe. The. Hype.

As I read it from the top, it was caf, not jazz who first insinuated that the story was not funny.

Jazz merely stated that the story sounded outrageous so he checked it out.

my god, two isolated incidents. it must happen to everyone.

stan you are also a dickhead. you too have missed the point of my humor. fuck me, i’ll change my use of language to keep you lot happy. heaven forbid someone have morbid humor from time to time

and sands, i’m sorry to hear that, but to say it is endemic based on your two cases seems a bit steep.

Someone I know personally used to drive taxis while he was studying and bragged about how often he’d get it on with drunk female passengers. Suffice to say we are not friends.

I also had a friend who had a really bad experience.

“This is the only incident of its type that i’ve heard of.”

Here you go Jazz, more hilarity for you:

http://the-riotact.com/?p=6389

interesting claim Sands. How do you know this behaviour is commonplace without any reports of how often it occurs? This is the only incident of its type that i’ve heard of.

“Perhaps people should read the original post again before getting all hysterical.”

No, that’d never work!

Perhaps people should read the original post again before getting all hysterical.

Yep, either he was mentally retarded or had huge cojones. If I was the boyfriend, I would have produced a kick punch to the neck followed by a cab bolt.

Yeah well I thought it was like humour, only different. It makes even odder that he should try it on with the boyfriend there, that really does make it sound like this cabbie is seriously ill and makes you wonder what would be next on his agenda.

This behaviour is commonplace and I imagine goes unreported for the majority given the victim might be drunk and embarrassed.

I doubt this would be the first time this dirty old creep tried it on and who knows how successful he was on the previous attempts.

They’re hardly priests or teachers, but they are still in a position of trust which makes the abuse all the worse.

I’m with Mr Evil. Crush his nuts THEN send him to summernats.

And to think, all he had to do was drive out to the Nats, and no one would have said a thing if he’d tried this on! 🙁

Dumb.

Gotta love how people defend themselves when lots of others have a go at them.

Now that’s funny.

you’re missing the point of my humor. it was more that the office gossip was so outrageous as to be real and that some clown taxi driver would be stupid enough to do that and think he could get away with it..

you know “haha you cant be serious.. no it seems you are. what an idiot”

get a grip people

Where is the funny bit – you’ve linked to an indecent assault of an 18 year old?

Sorry Jazz, I’m with caf and toriness. Not funny.

Dirty old men need love too!

This guy should have his nuts crushed by a monkey.

jazz – if you thought this story was hilarious, you must have split your sides and wet your pants laughing at that guy in queensland who raped and murdered his daughter.

i wonder if you would think the story was so amusing if it was your friend or sister who was assaulted by some festy old man. disgusting.

ACT Policing’s release on the same incident.
Linky

Apparently the assaulted woman and her boyfriend were getting a ride home at the time, so the alleged offender sounds like a knob.

I don’t think it’s amusing in the slightest. It’s not the first time something along these lines has happened here recently, either.