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Got wine at the airport? It's harder to grab a cab
Mpls Star-Tribune ^ | 28 sep 06 | John Reinan

Posted on 09/29/2006 12:15:02 PM PDT by white trash redneck

When flight attendant Eva Buzek returned to Minneapolis from a trip to France, five taxi drivers refused to take her home from the airport. The reason? She had two bottles of wine in her suitcase -- and the drivers were Muslims, who don't drink and refuse to have alcohol in their taxis.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: aclumia; alcohol; dajooz; discrimination; doublestandard; drugwar; hatecrime; islam; islame; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; islaminamerica; islamislame; islime; prohibition; religiousintolerance; warondrugs
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To: MplsSteve

Two questions
1 What does their licence say (if anything) about refusing passengers?
2 Just how many (Muslim) drivers are partaking?


81 posted on 09/29/2006 8:53:03 PM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Well next time I grab a cab I am going to have a porkchop and some babyback ribs...


82 posted on 09/29/2006 8:54:52 PM PDT by lndrvr1972
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To: Kaylee Frye

You're quite right, of course.


83 posted on 09/30/2006 5:10:35 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MplsSteve

I'm glad they have the color-coding. Now I'll know which cabbies are islamonazis, and I'll find a different cab whether I'm carrying alcohol or not.


84 posted on 09/30/2006 12:01:34 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: MplsSteve

This is good news if the color coding goes through. It will weed out the drivers that treat women horribly. This never happened to me, but I have heard stories about cabbies being very rude to female customers.


85 posted on 10/01/2006 12:27:50 AM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs
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To: 2banana

Just what the cab companies want - cabbies who refuse to pick up passengers. How the heck do they manage to get airport duty? You'd think they would keep those kind of cabbies in less prosperous territory, but I suppose they've already played the race card on that one.

But the woman? Idiot for telling the cabbie what's in her luggage. On the other hand, you're right about picking and choosing from the Koran. Sounds like a power play to me. I can't imagine the cab company would bother with sensitivity unless it's run by muzzies or the muzzies have already played the race card. It sure seems like an organized play to me.


86 posted on 10/01/2006 5:09:48 AM PDT by AmericanChef
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To: white trash redneck
I'm really close to calling BS on this.

I've been in taxis all over the country, and I've never opened my suitcase for a cabbie's inspection.

88 posted on 10/01/2006 10:08:27 PM PDT by Wormwood (Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.)
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To: D.P.Roberts
These bigots need their licenses pulled.

Exactly.

They're just as bad as Christian pharmacists refusing to provide abortion-pills because of their religious convictions.

89 posted on 10/01/2006 10:11:56 PM PDT by Wormwood (Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.)
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To: Wormwood; AmericanChef
Hi All-

The cabbie learned she was carrying alcohol because she told him "to be careful with her luggage because it contained fragile bottles of wine" that could be broken if handled roughly. She could have just as easily been speaking about a delicate laptop computer or expensive jewelry. The cabbie is a vile Islamist whom we don't want in our midst, anyway.

~ Blue Jays ~

90 posted on 10/01/2006 10:23:24 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Victor

muslim prohibition on alcohol extends to skincare products.


91 posted on 10/02/2006 1:53:22 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: P-40
I wonder if that cab is powered by ethanol...

HAH!

Brilliant observation. They will probably protest that the theocratical American government is degrading the middle east's pure oil to offend good muslims.

92 posted on 10/02/2006 1:55:12 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Wolfie
Sounds a lot like the pharmacists who won't didn't want to dispense the morning-after pill.

Authorities tried to say they had no choice in the matter.

A more accurate comparison might be pharmacists who wouldn't serve anything to anyone who'd ever taken the morning-after-pill.

93 posted on 10/02/2006 1:59:09 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: trisham

Some states don't permit you to have alcohol legally delivered by mail.


94 posted on 10/02/2006 2:00:17 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: white trash redneck
I have a real simple solution for this. Taxis are licensed by the city. Whenever a cab refuses a fare, report the date, time, cab company and cab number. Suspend the license for that vehicle for 6 months immediately. The cab companies will think twice before letting muslim drivers idle their entire fleet of cabs.
95 posted on 10/02/2006 2:06:25 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: white trash redneck

I wonder if the Republicans took that into consideration when selecting Minneapolis as the site for the 2008 convention...lol


96 posted on 10/02/2006 2:08:29 PM PDT by stockstrader (“Where government advances–and it ADVANCES RELENTLESSLY-freedom is imperiled”-Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Victor
Maybe, as a culture, this is what's wrong with these people. Of course, neither do Mormons. NEVER MIND.....

Let me know next time a Mormon cab driver refuses you a ride because you are drunk or transporting alcoholic beverages.

97 posted on 10/02/2006 2:12:06 PM PDT by Myrddin
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