I cannot believe the sheer irresponsibility of the moronic cabbie who had the absolute nerve to accept a passenger while holding a lighter and a baggie. Your ass should be immediately terminated for driving impaired. How dare you risk the lives of others because you need to mellow out? Grow up, you asshole. This is not a Cheech and Chong movie.
This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2008.
I guess that would be a possibility, lori – I’m not anti-pot, just anti-stoned-cab-drivers.
just for the record, i am against impaired driving ( like anyone is FOR it?? )Having said that, i doubt this is the worst “cab horror story” that has ever been told. I have many female friends who can tell you some real horror stories about taking a cab ride after dark alone. Plus if i had to deal with the public all day like a cab driver does i would need to be high to keep from jerking the wheel into a concrete postI had to laugh when i read this lady called and left a message on the police voice mail. I wonder how the manhunt is going?…lol Lori – you are 100% right. not hard to tell its a slow news day when this grabs the front page.
That this woman didn’t even bother to get the roof light number shows how very concerned she really was. Betcha she’s proud of grabbing that front page though.
She sounded like an annoying little Sally Prissypants to me. Put her down the well.
I assume you’re referring to the story on the front page of the paper today…..in which case, how do you or anyone know that the cabbie was high? This girl says she smells weed and sees a lighter and baggie…..maybe the cabbie had just picked it up off the floor, and maybe the smell was from the weed itself and not from being smoked (some of it is pretty potent). Either way, I think it’s rediculous to print this story on the front page if at all.
If the weed did belong to someone else, that means he allowed them to smoke in his cab – not cool and certainly not legal, not by any standards.
Just want to add that weed in a bag and the odor of weed smoke are two different animals, sweetcakes.
Some weed can stink up a whole house without ever being smoked. Maybe he just opened up the baggie??? But then again maybe he was a dealer and had a trunk full??? Who know’s?
Since when does someone smoke weed from a baggie? I doubt anyone that gets upset about something like that has the foggiest idea what they are talking about. The odds that a grown man is going to smoke a J and kill everyone in their car simply driving through the city are so remote its barely worth mentioning. If this is the only thing in the world that this woman has to concern herself with, then she should do us all a favor and die in a fiery crash herself. And I agree with lovinglife, after dealing with the idiots a cabbie must see in the run of a day, getting high is probably the only thing stopping most from driving into the harbour. Maybe the news should try covering actual news, instead of something that should barely make it into the editorials.
While I agree that the media may have had a slow day, the woman was right to complain about it. Hoon; its also not legal to have open liquor in your car. Suppose the cabbie had an open bottle of rum in there, We still don’t know if he drank any, took it away from a passenger or what the deal was, but I guarantee noone would be on here trying to minimalize drinking and driving, or IMPAIRED driving ;which is what the cab driver would be doing IF he’d been smoking.Booo hoo he just needed to unwind, or boo hoo its just one joint, Hey how about I drink a few beers and come pick you up? After all I drive better when I’m drunk.( *** I do NOT drink and drive *** I just had this discussion with someone who swears they drive better high.) idiot.
Imagine if the driver were stoned on percs or some other legal narcotic! There would be no smell, no baggie, no lighter, just a very comfortable driver quite impaired but you wouldn’t know it, would you? So, what’s this about pot, a drug the driver may have possessed legally? Show me a sanctioned report about pot impairing a person’s ability to work and you might have a valid bitch. The law says and most of agree a single shot of booze impairs but not enough to prevent a person from working/driving… how far do you think a joint can take a person down that road? Two joints? Ten?*rolling my eyes*