Cabbie runs down egg-throwing teens

[Jecs]

AN enraged cab driver tried to force a car full of teens off the road last night after they threw an egg at his taxi, with the cab driver also threatening the boys with a knife and a tire iron.

The five males, aged from 16 to 20, were enjoying a night out in Geelong, southwest of Melbourne, but got a lot more than they bargained for after the egg hit the taxi. Police believe the taxi driver pursued the boys and attempted to force their car off the road by crashing into them.

The boys efforts to escape the taxi driver came to a grinding halt when their car blew a tire after hitting a gutter.

Police believe the taxi driver then crashed into the side of the boys’ car and jumped out armed with a tire iron and a knife before angrily smashing every window of the car, including the tail lights.

The boys from the Geelong area received minor injuries in the attack.

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The 17-year-old boy who threw the egg, received a caution from police for discharging a missile.

Victoria Police issued a statement this morning titled "Nobody wins" regarding the egg-throwing incident.

The taxi driver, a 41-year-old man from a town outside of Geelong handed himself into a local police station.

It is expected he will be charged with conduct endangering life, assaults, criminal damage and numerous traffic offenses..

the reason kids these days are stereotyped as being idiots is because 90% of kids these days are fkn idiots

[cracker]

sums up geelong really.

[ParkwayDrv]

cabbie's really don't like eggs

[axemurderer101]

serves the bloody kids right, i have an auntie who owns and drives a taxi and has had people throwing rocks and breaking windows on her car and i always here stories of the other taxi drivers getting hit too. anyone who throws anything at a driving car should be put in jail for atleast 6 months or something, seriously why would anyone think that is something cool to do?

[Jecs]

only thing wrong in this story is the cabbie handed himself in.

[Jezza]

i think the cabbie should walk away no charges because those teens deserve every bit of that because who know how many cars they egged before the taxi

[WogBoyz]

good on him for standing up for himself lol prob didnt need to smash all the windows n that but i bet the boys have learnt there leason

[somefool]

good on him , feral littlle brats they give us other under19s an awful reputation. i get dirty looks enough just from wearing a beanie and piloting a VN. (beanie to hold my hair back its hard to drive and see through hair at the same time )

[fuzzy2308]

thats funny who the hell eggs a taxi seriously grow some balls and egg some divy vans

[STEALTHY™]

Kids throw eggs, cabby attemps to run them off the road, and the kids are the stupid ones?

Let the cops deal with it, not ****in endanger peoples lives.

[Chilly]

Good on him :P Go Cabbie!!

[adamc11]

Let the cops deal with it, not ****in endanger peoples lives.

My car was egged once by a passing car. I went to the local police station and showed the working officer the damage. His comment was 'well it's a shit paint job'. I gave him the rego of the car that egged me (i'm 90% sure it was the right rego) and he made one call to no avail, and then said he couldn't help me. To make me feel better, he said that there is a local guy that regularly throws eggs from the side of the road and they don't know who he is therefore there is nothing they can do about it.

At the end of the day the cabbie may have done the wrong thing but i say good on him.

[axemurderer101]

Kids throw eggs, cabby attemps to run them off the road, and the kids are the stupid ones?

Let the cops deal with it, not ****in endanger peoples lives.

the kids were the ones endangering other peoples lives in the first place

[STEALTHY™]

the kids were the ones endangering other peoples lives in the first place

I never said they were innocent. My post implied, 2 wrongs dont make a right. However throwing an egg doesn't even come close to running a car off the road.

[zenna]

two wrongs dont make a right.

[acarmody]

two wrongs dont make a right.

Not saying what the cabbie did was right. But at least he did something. Even if the cops caught the young dicks, magistrate would have given the a 'love tap' sentence and sent them on thier way.

[STEALTHY™]

Not saying what the cabbie did was right. But at least he did something. Even if the cops caught the young dicks, magistrate would have given the a 'love tap' sentence and sent them on thier way.

So vigilante is the way to go?

[illusionalvr]

.357 magnum is the way to go.

[acarmody]

So vigilante is the way to go?

Not at all. Getting the Magistrates and Judges to pull their heads out of their asses is the way to go.

[Jesterarts]

You're all very misinformed on this subject, if you had watched the story on ACA about this event, you would have know it was NOT idiot teens but actually teenage HOONS.

Mad Max cabbie on MSN Video

Damn those hoons, first burnouts then donuts and now eggs...

[jakbob]

Kids throw eggs, cabby attemps to run them off the road, and the kids are the stupid ones?

Damn straight they are.

Let the cops deal with it, not ****in endanger peoples lives.

Yeah, because we all know the cops do such a good job dealing with these sort of things.

[TVR-190]

I'm with stealthy on this one, Kids were silly, But Taxi driver was plain crazy. ive had my car egged before. i didnt try and run them down. i just got home and washed it off.

[STEALTHY™]

Damn straight they are.



Yeah, because we all know the cops do such a good job dealing with these sort of things.

So answer my earlier question, vigilante is the way to go? Some kids throw some eggs, and death by beaing rammed into a pole is suitable punishment? I dont think so

[Lumps of cheese]

All that over an egg?
The cabbie needs anger mangement.

[ClairBear]

Sounds like the cabbie got a bit eggcited when the boys scrambled. Cabbie fried his brain in temper when he should have just poached their rego number.