Another Taxi driver story...

[Darcon666]

It's been said it before in some threads... and I'm going to say it as well... But, What The "F" is wrong with Taxi drivers now days...

Are they born stupid?
Are their parent’s brother & sister?
Are they some lower level Human being?

Now I've been all over this country of ours for work, so use cabs/taxis Alllll the time and got to say the majority have to be the dumbest, stupidest, inconsiderate, Dishonest, offensive, Lowlife, scum and have to be the rudest people(scratch that)... Animals I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
(THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, HOWEVER THEY ARE IN THE MINORITY)


Just got back from Perth this morning(red eye flight...) and was waiting for wifey to pick me up when one of these pieces of human excrement decided to clip the front right panel of another car as the driver was sitting there, probably waiting for their partner.

Then this (Sorry but can only describe what I have seen..) Indian/Pakistani/Sir Lankan(Sub continent) looking, head wobbling, really smelly even from where I was 5m away, person gets out and tries to play down the incident(while at least 20 people clearly seen what actually happened, including myself...) and proceeded to tell the guy he hit... it's only a hundred dollars for the bumper and the dent/scratch will pop out/buff out and proceeded to give me cash to forget about it.

Anyways, fast forward to 10min later... with an ever increasing crowd... the taxi driver(Lowlife) places $100 on the bonnet of the other car and tries to get into his taxi to leave. Then myself + others stand in front of the pr*ck which by then we have called the Police who said to also call the AFP as it is the "Airport", I guess it's considered federal land...

...As soon as the Police arrive, his attitude changed from being a absolute c*nt who did not speak English to an ass kisser that who spoke perfect English, then the AFP turn up and behold, he's a fracken illegal immigrant that the DOI have been looking for 2yrs... Busted big time you low life, and is cuffed and lead away, the taxi gets towed and the other driver gives a report to coppers and that's when wifey arrives to get me.

Made my morning after a long flight....

[Drawnnite]

got his just desserts.

maybe they should do some more searches of all taxi drivers to see if anymore are illegals.

[hi_ryder]

with a country like india having something like a 150 thousand traffic deaths a years it dosent surprise me it gets carried over to where ever they settle abroad. the price of human life being what it is in those countries its no wonder they drive like they do... no care taken behind the wheel..

[dthrw]

got what he deserved from what Ive experienced the majority of these FAIL taxi drivers are in the city its not to bad in towns thank god that will probably change soon though

[alpha_au]

I avoid taxi's at ALL times if possible due to the drivers.

#### em

[sik_dose]

I work in traffic control and a majority of the close calls ive had are Taxis.

[mummbles]

I stood and watched the police close Albert Street in Brisbane the other day and proceed to do immigration checks on all of the taxi drivers in the rank at 9:15 in the morning.
End result, 5 illegals arrested and taken away in cuffs.
The police had also put squads on Charlotte and other streets to catch the other drivers who got tipped off and tried to flee the CBD. Not sure how many others they caught.
About time I say!
Why don't the taxi companies take some responsibility for those they choose to hire nowadays?

[hi_ryder]

I stood and watched the police close Albert Street in Brisbane the other day and proceed to do immigration checks on all of the taxi drivers in the rank at 9:15 in the morning.
End result, 5 illegals arrested and taken away in cuffs.
The police had also put squads on Charlotte and other streets to catch the other drivers who got tipped off and tried to flee the CBD. Not sure how many others they caught.
About time I say!
Why don't the taxi companies take some responsibility for those they choose to hire nowadays?

plus how many let there friends or illegal family members borrow the taxi an do off meter fares, cause they look alike on the id badge...

[Asmodai78]

Two requirments you need to have when you apply for your Taxi licence is 1) did you come from Christamas Island? and 2) did you drive the boat?
If they answer yes to both they get their Taxi licence.

[detox_nath83]

round up the rest of the cabs and then raid the 7elevens

[dirt drifter]

i saw one clout the guardrail at brisbane airport on my way to summernats last year. he hit it, got out and checked the damage to the cab,looked to see if anyone was watching, and buggered off. made me laugh

[Banicks]

Guaranteed he didn't even have a valid license.

Taxi drivers, and as you say, the good ones are a minority, scare the heck out of me lately. I reckon you could easily get a steady revenue for the government targeting them and their infringements.

[Jesterarts]

I use the cabs around Melbourne, to and from clients etc.

The amount of times I get into a cab, give them the directions and get asked about where the location is amazes me.

These cabbies ONLY WORK THE CITY and yet 9 times out of 10 have no idea where they are supposed to go or what the quickest way is.

What's more annoying is that most have the GPS unit in their car and on several occasions they have still gotten lost!

Plus some of their driving techniques are concerning, best bet is to just close my eyes, put headphones in and hope I get to where I am going in one piece.

[kuzman89]

I once caught a taxi from dandenong to berwick in the early hours of the morning on a sunday and the taxi driver fell asleep going over the monash freeway (just passed the Honda store if anyone knows where that is) and almost smashed into a light pole. I should have just gotten out of the car then and not paid, but I was so tired I didn't care.

[Jesterarts]

I once caught a taxi from dandenong to berwick in the early hours of the morning on a sunday and the taxi driver fell asleep going over the monash freeway (just passed the Honda store if anyone knows where that is) and almost smashed into a light pole. I should have just gotten out of the car then and not paid, but I was so tired I didn't care.

Jesus christ! I would have had him pull over, taken all his details and called the cops.

That's definately not cool.

[VTSSDUDE]

I had this taxi driver drive me to the airport one day in Sydney, he liked his apples. He must have ate about 3 apples in a 30 minute trip.
Every 5 minutes he kept offering me an apple and kept going on how good they are and "here you should have one."
It was starting to get annoying.

[MasterOfReality]

Twice I have caught a taxi from Perth airport, and the dusky gentleman in the drivers seat proceeds to inform me that its their first day on the job.

I'm beginning to suspect its a cover for their hopeless driving.

The first one couldn't stay in his lane, and I ended up giving him directions to Colin St in West Perth, with the street directory on my lap. He also buggered up the transaction, and after I paid and signed off with my corporate credit card, he chased me down the road wanting money that he supposedly forgot to ad to the bill. Tough titties.

The second one stopped at a red traffic light, which had a red light camera. His phone rang, and it must have scared him a bit cos he planted it. We screamed into the (thankfully) empty intersection, he got flashed by the camera and then he slammed his brakes on and stopped in the middle of the intersection. A 'WTF are you doing' in his ear got him going again and after a couple of minutes in silence, he reflected that 'tonight I work for camera'.

I live in a semi rural area on the west side of Brisbane, and I have never caught one cab yet that knows how to get there. The only guy that does know is the private business car that I usually book when I have enough notice for my trips.

[kuzman89]

Jesus christ! I would have had him pull over, taken all his details and called the cops.

That's definately not cool.

I didn't end up paying, but still looking back I should have done more.

[Stressball]

I had this taxi driver drive me to the airport one day in Sydney, he liked his apples. He must have ate about 3 apples in a 30 minute trip.
Every 5 minutes he kept offering me an apple and kept going on how good they are and "here you should have one."
It was starting to get annoying.

It was poisoned.

[Stressball]

I live in a semi rural area on the west side of Brisbane, and I have never caught one cab yet that knows how to get there. The only guy that does know is the private business car that I usually book when I have enough notice for my trips.

I had an awesome cabbie a year or two ago down in the Redlands, going into Wynnum. Pommie bloke, loved his music. He has a cd in his car of older music, and he makes bets with young people. He tells them that if they can name the artist and song title of every song on the cd, he will knock $10 off their trip. Myself and one other person were the only two to ever get it, apparently. He told me that the other guy who got it had mentioned a guitarist to him, he wrote it down, then accidentally put his shirt through the wash with the piece of paper in the pocket and lost it. He was very disappointed, told me it was some weird name, a swedish guy or something... So I suggested Yngwie Malmsteen, and he just about had a heart attack with happiness that he knew the name again lol.

Incidentally, I didn't get the fare reduced; insurance company was paying for the trip, and I'm not saving them any money just because I like older music lol.

[Jesterarts]

I had this taxi driver drive me to the airport one day in Sydney, he liked his apples. He must have ate about 3 apples in a 30 minute trip.
Every 5 minutes he kept offering me an apple and kept going on how good they are and "here you should have one."
It was starting to get annoying.

Should have grabbed one of the apples, rolled down your window and thrown it out.

Then asked him "How do you like them apples?"

[MasterOfReality]

I had an awesome cabbie a year or two ago down in the Redlands, going into Wynnum. Pommie bloke, loved his music. He has a cd in his car of older music, and he makes bets with young people. He tells them that if they can name the artist and song title of every song on the cd, he will knock $10 off their trip. Myself and one other person were the only two to ever get it, apparently. He told me that the other guy who got it had mentioned a guitarist to him, he wrote it down, then accidentally put his shirt through the wash with the piece of paper in the pocket and lost it. He was very disappointed, told me it was some weird name, a swedish guy or something... So I suggested Yngwie Malmsteen, and he just about had a heart attack with happiness that he knew the name again lol.

Incidentally, I didn't get the fare reduced; insurance company was paying for the trip, and I'm not saving them any money just because I like older music lol.

Haha, I was cranking Yngwie on the little Bose sound dock on the weekend when I was painting one of the bedrooms.

There used to be a cabbie in Wollongong who got around in a 5 litre VT. Everyone used to try and flag him down and then try to get him to flog the ass out of it.

He once drove us in record time from the pub to the kebab shop

Edit - just remembered the missus caught a taxi home last week from the city and the cabbie, an old pommy guy, knew where he was going!

[kuzman89]

I've found the pakenham taxi service to be the best out of most of the metro area, for people from Melbourne. I've had quite a few decent cabbies but I guess it's not as complicated as CBD or inner suburb driving.

[Jarrad]

Why don't the taxi companies take some responsibility for those they choose to hire nowadays?

Cheap labour!!!

[kye,s SSV]

Yeah still gets arond in dapto upgraded to ve ss quite old now must have close to 500k quite a test vehcle

Haha, I was cranking Yngwie on the little Bose sound dock on the weekend when I was painting one of the bedrooms.

There used to be a cabbie in Wollongong who got around in a 5 litre VT. Everyone used to try and flag him down and then try to get him to flog the ass out of it.

He once drove us in record time from the pub to the kebab shop

Edit - just remembered the missus caught a taxi home last week from the city and the cabbie, an old pommy guy, knew where he was going!