Taxi drivers gagged in new proposal
Victorian taxi drivers could be fired for ear bashing their fares about politics or religion under a new code of conduct proposal.

And banned from passenger's sight would be foreign flags and religious symbols - except the Australian flags and coat of arms.

The taxi industry told the Herald Sun newspaper that tensions arising from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are behind the proposal

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=19738



Takes the fun out of a drunken cab ride, I say.

with good reason

if theres one thing i hate its cabis/hairdressers who insist on talking to me

im paying you for a service, not for a chat, leave me alone

Speaking of cabs/taxis... I made one of those computers in the backs of the front seats crash once. I was drunkenly pressing all of the available buttons and it was out of paper and hey presto BSOD.

computers in a taxi? wtf

going home alone obviously

Speaking of cabs/taxis... I made one of those computers in the backs of the front seats crash once. I was drunkenly pressing all of the available buttons and it was out of paper and hey presto BSOD.

Err... aren’t the screens yellow/green back lit LCD's on the cabbies on board computers

Idol, yeah they have these computers in the backs of the seats which display ads and allow tourists to print out bits of information on this docket-style printer. The driver didn't seem to give a f*** that I broke it, I think he might've been somewhat thankful because it was no longer playing the annoying ad that it had on.

HerbalLizard: nope not that computer, I think the driver would've beaten me senseless if I tried to touch his driver's computer. I'm talking about these things that were being trialled a few months back. This was earlier this year, probably around late January that I saw them.

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Can't say that I have ever seen anything like what your are discribing in a cab. I wonder how many people have punched one of them in a drunken fit of rage.

As long as they dont fire that indian guy that kept asking me about if me and my g/f were into kinko dildo s***

he was f***ing hi-larious

Thought police f***ing everywhere...

Society is being homogenized to the point where everything will look, smell, taste and sound the same.

or it could alternatively become a society where i dont have to sit and listen to cabbies rambles anymore. real bad detrimental s*** there !

You don't have to listen.

But I don't know why you wouldn't, they usually have an interesting view of the world becuase they see all sorts of people everyday. From pensioners, to single mums, to suits, to freaks.

obes if you love single mums so much why don't you marry them

Becuase they slap me and tell me to go away ?

whats the big deal with talking to cabbies, if you don't want to talk, just politley say, "hey, um, i don't really feel like talking now if thats alright?", and hey, MOST people are considerate when face to face, so he will probably not talk to you. but whats the problem with having a chat with one anyway?

me and farseeker shared a cab once, the guy was so f***ingfunny, we were in stiches walking the rest of the way home.

the way he said 'f***ing', was so passion filled! ah, best 20$ i ever spent.

Most cabbies are an absolute blast to talk to
They have so many funny stories, i tell you, if the cabbies weren't so damn funny, i wouldn't be working for Yellow Cabs any more. They make me stay in my job cos they're so funny. They all get pissed after work. I laugh. I have never heard a cabbie talk all that much about religion or politics. I tell you, i might hear one talk about it maybe once a month, if that.
Mostly cabbies complain about passengers who spew and don't tip. They hate that.
As for touching the cabbies computer? I sometimes play around with it when the cars are in the yard. Its fun. It tells you where to "SMILE" (where you get your photo taken, ie flash for cash). It has saved me before. It tells you where all the accidents are, and where the traffic is slow too. Its like CB radio on a screen without the 'goonie goonies' as i'm sure you'd all know.
Anyone who listens to the UHF would know about the goonie goonies on the Kyle Commnications repeater.

some cabbies are wankers, try to rip u off when ur drunk etc.

We got this cabbie the other day, he was a fag.

He stopped the car when we where about half way to our destination and turned around and started yelling at us cause he thought we stole his seatbelt, was really funny tho cause we where all drunk and just laughing at him lol

wynnum cabbies are madc***s. i've only had 1-2 dicks out of 30 or so.

I had some cabbie trying to tell me he owned several bars in Thailand and that he spoke fluent Thai. Sounded like the biggest load of s*** I've heard in ages. It was pretty entertaining through. Said to never trust a Thai in a business deal. I was on my way to a party and I met this Thai chick there. Boozed off my tits I screamed at her "NEVER TRUST A THAI!" and stumbled off. haha, poor girl.

if theres one thing i hate its cabis/hairdressers who insist on talking to me

thats easy spooky
just grow ur hair n get it dreaded then ya dont gotta go back for years :)

Becareful what you say about cabbies because:

1 - I am one (when i feel like it)

2 - We're like a gang in drifter falcons and we back each other up when we get given s***.

3 - I'll spread the word and tell them to drop you off in darwin where there are a hord of massive angry drunk abbos waiting to rape your white asses.

p.s. If i try and intiate a convo with a customer and he s/he doesn't seem interested then i back right off cause frankly i couldn't give a s***. As long as my meter ticks i'm happy. Also they're the ones usually bothering me with their political questions and what not.

Customer: "so what do you think of america and americans" ?

me: "frankly ? their pigs"

Customer: "Gee it's hot today!!"

sif cabbies come back each other up. Once a mate of mine gave a cab a tap with his foot as it drove by, granted it was a pretty stupid thing to do but it didn't do any damage. The cabbie hit thew skids, jumped out and tried to box on with my mate. They boxxed for a bit, then my mate landed a massive kick around behind his thigh, lifted him about a foot off the ground, and laid him on his arse. He jumped up and bolted into the cab, tried to back over us, and cained off. Funniest thing I've ever seen. No cabbie vigilante showed up!

its moreover if theres a problem customer or something serious has happened, they put the green light on top fo the cab and it sends out a silent signal
then all the cabbies come to the rescue, and poeple rejoice

i had a drunk cabbie once. would have been scary if i wasn't s***faced. looking back now it was acually kind of f***ed up :(

i had a cabbie that was sitting there eating his cookie, saying how much he liked home made cookies, he sounded stoned, he drove like he was stoned, and he was jamaican so...

about a month ago a cabbie asked me if i could get him any "choof." he was funny, started telling me about this awesome bud he got from his cousin once. very broken english.

If i try and intiate a convo with a customer and he s/he doesn't seem interested then i back right off cause frankly i couldn't give a s***. As long as my meter ticks i'm happy. Also they're the ones usually bothering me with their political questions and what not.

Thats pretty much my approach too, though as I do more and more, I'm getting more and more pissed off with s*** for brains customers so I'm starting to be a bit more like the old bloke cabbies and just lay down my opinion... hehe.

These f***heads were f***ing me around the other night... it was so hard not to drive them into their fence... but in the end its simply not worth the litigation :(

talking about religion should be banned everywhere ... it's counter-productive & just makes people really angry about differences that really don't even exist! i'm down with the banning of religious symbols too... & i spose i can see the reason for banning the foriegn flags & symbols. people should be allowed to feel pride in thier heritage... but my heritage is german & i'm sure people would get upset if i wore my stormtrooper helmet & some swastikas ;p
as for politics, i dunno why that should be banned.. everyone has an opinion & thats all it is, an opinion. i dunno why anyone would get upset over a cabbie's political opinion... they are on a low socio-economic rung & can just be ignored as peons.

Religous symbols should be banned ?

Swastika, Ankh, cross, celtic cross, pentagram, star of david, eye, evil eye, pyramid, oblesk, wheel, beads ... all have to go .. and thats just the starting point.

Xmas decorations?

If this works out we'll be able to ban Santa and the Easter Bunnies from shopping centres.

Hey wasn't this a south park episode once?

sif cabbies come back each other up. Once a mate of mine gave a cab a tap with his foot as it drove by, granted it was a pretty stupid thing to do but it didn't do any damage. The cabbie hit thew skids, jumped out and tried to box on with my mate. They boxxed for a bit, then my mate landed a massive kick around behind his thigh, lifted him about a foot off the ground, and laid him on his arse. He jumped up and bolted into the cab, tried to back over us, and cained off. Funniest thing I've ever seen. No cabbie vigilante showed up!

heh i thought that was my dad for a sec, but similiar thing happened to my dad... but the passenger got knocked out.. dad had to pay a fine or something... f***ing stupid.


i'm like dad you should have called us up.