Cab drivers refusing passengers with alcohol (Guess who!!)

KSTP TV5 News ^ | 4/27/06 | KSTP TV5

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I'll be choosing my cabs carefully at MSP, from now on.

[Ikemeister]

Hmmmm, I wonder how many of these cabbies are illegals?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

so, seems to me MSP should require them to take fares and if they don't, they're not welcome back..won't be long before some enterprising man/woman opens a cab company to specifically serve MSP..and have the muzzies go elsewhere for their fares..

[cmsgop]

Remind me to have a dozen eggs at the ready next time...........

[LauraleeBraswell]

It's their prerogative. The cab drivers take a loss too. as long as they aren't leaving people somewhere dangerous in the middle of nowhere.

[RebelBanker]

Refuse a legal fare, should lose their airport hack licenses. That would put a stop to this BS very quickly.

[SauronOfMordor]

Airport policy does allow drivers to refuse a fare, only if they return to the beginning of the cab line, which can mean a wait of 3 to 4 hours until their next fare.

Easy solution. Have some people come out of the airport with 6-packs on a frequent basis as a sting. Eventually the Muslim drivers will get tired of it and stop trying to pick people up from the airport

[randog]

The Indians at the Mystic Lake Casino down the road will give you a hard time about your booze, too. You gotta hide it real good...;^)

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not a bad idea.....

[The Republic is Lost]

I wonder if the idiots would have taken the terrorists to their flights on 9-11. They were all in strip joints getting lap dances and getting drunk the night before. What a hipocritical cult.

[SouthernFreebird]

Geez with their preference for car bombs who in their right mind would get into a cab with a muslim driver anyway?

[lesser_satan]

I'm guessing they're Somalis here legally as refugees (courtesy of Klintoon and Wellstone). It's OK for them to wander around in a khat-induced stupor all the time, but Allah forbid somebody has booze in their cab.

[SamAdams76]

I think passengers should be refusing to get into a cab driven by Muslims.

[durasell]

This has never, ever been a problem NYC where a large percentage of hacks are muslim.

[chowkster]

Well some cabbies refuse passengers carrying alcohol for religious reasons, while some pharmacists refuse filling prescriptions for contraceptives for religious reasons. Same shit, different religion.

[Serious Capitalist]

That's funny- blowing up innocent people provokes NO RESPONSE from the US Muslim community- but a bottle of booze does... I'm proud to be a Christian.

[Oztrich Boy]

Airport policy does allow drivers to refuse a fare, only if they return to the beginning of the cab line, which can mean a wait of 3 to 4 hours until their next fare.

It seems to me that one guy with a bottle of scotch and a few hours to kill could really screw with these cabbies, and move the more tolerant drivers to the head of the line.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Article did say it's only happening at MSP.

[Oztrich Boy]

Oh great, Now for seeing the same solution. I've got a mind as devious as SauronOfMordor

[durasell]

Article did say it's only happening at MSP



Yeah. That was the point. Is it a spontaneous movement among the hacks or is there some guy preaching "no liquor" in the local mosque? I actually had a cabbie follow me into a ginmill once to return a package I left in his cab...