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Taxi Driver Mistakes Stairs for Exit -- Hilarity Ensues
SF Weekly ^
| Thu., Jan. 16 2014
| Joe Eskenazi
Posted on 01/18/2014 9:00:26 AM PST by nickcarraway
A taxi driver who mistook a walkway for an auto exit managed to jettison his cab on the stairs today at the Market and Church Safeway.
Tom Nguyen, a manager at Vina Cab, told SF Weekly that driver Tseo Tran is "new to the job." Nguyen said the tenderfoot driver "on his way out, didn't know that wasn't an exit." The result was a marooned taxi and internet immortality.
Paul Rose, a spokesman for the Municipal Transportation Agency, says the investigation into just what happened is ongoing. Nguyen, however, chalks it up to simple inexperience.
Tran, his manager concludes, "is really very sorry."
Click below for more photos of the incident.
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:03:01 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: martin_fierro
To: JoeProBono
It went over just fine until lard butt moochelle got in.
To: nickcarraway
"Gee.... it always works in the movies."
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:11:14 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
To: JoeProBono
The sound of failure is “clunk”.
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:11:59 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: nickcarraway
Just how much investigating does this kind of event require? :-)
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:19:29 AM PST
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: nickcarraway
driver Tseo Tran is "new to the job." Nguyen said the tenderfoot driver "on his way out, didn't know that wasn't an exit." The result was a marooned taxi and internet immortality. Illegal alien?
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:27:40 AM PST
by
kabar
To: UCANSEE2
Heh. You gotta be going lots faster to make this work...
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posted on
01/18/2014 9:29:17 AM PST
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: nickcarraway
“...Nguyen chalks it up to simple inexperience..”
Well, there you go. You need years of driving experience NOT to drive down stairs.
To: nickcarraway
When I lived in San Francisco; that would have been called a Chinese driver!
To: kabar
Driver Tran Tu Loew is “new to the job.”
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posted on
01/18/2014 10:18:28 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Got a problem with the government? Have a complaint. Get a free IRS audit!)
To: nickcarraway
how is San Fransicko going to achieve “Zero Pedestrian Injuries” from motor vehicles.... with taxi drivers like this?
To: nickcarraway
Gosh, they never said anything about not driving down stairs in driver-ed, so I always figured it was OK.
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posted on
01/18/2014 10:30:23 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: nickcarraway
Hey, if you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the stairs!
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posted on
01/18/2014 10:44:41 AM PST
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
I hope Channel 2 in Oakland gets this guy’s name right on tonight’s newscast.
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posted on
01/18/2014 12:56:38 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Roscoe Karns
To: nickcarraway
I’m trying to think of a better word for what he did there, because “jettison” isn’t it.
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posted on
01/18/2014 1:52:28 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(San Francisco: When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Go Pro.)
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