Report: Wife Scratched Tiger Woods' Face, Chased His SUV; Update: Police Unable To Interview Couple Today
Senate Report: Bush Missed Chance To Catch Bin Laden
Bloomberg Spent $102 Million On Campaign
Two Doors Fall Off AirTrain At JFK
Dogs Rescued From Puppy Mills And Shelters Arrive In L.I.
Two guys beat up a taxi driver early Monday morning because he was being honest: The driver told the men he didn't know how to get to their Bronx location. Gilbert Ruiz opened up the front passenger door and "slugged the cabby in the mouth" and then threw the cabby's bag on the street. When driver Frederick Dsouza went to get his bag, Christopher Lopez "pounded him to the ground," and then Lopez and Ruiz both beat and kicked him.
The police arrested the two. While the NYC Taxi Rider Bill of Rights says that riders are entitled to "Direct the destination and route used" and "Travel to any destination in the five boroughs of the City of New York," deciding to beat up a driver who says he doesn't know how to get there is certainly extreme.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
But, of course, if the driver had simply refused to go to the Bronx for fear of violence, he'd be a racist.
more classist / elitist than racist. poverty breeds violence as a solution to problems? discuss.
is that why my poverty-stricken midwestern home town was so safe? put entitlement and hate-breeding leaders into your violence equation.
#3...what is this, a game of "I know you are but what am I?"
listen what isnt told in the article is why the taxi driver decided to not only curse me out during the argument but not just drive away when i repeatedly told him to just leave and i dont want to hear that "poverty breeds violence"
bull*** because i grew up on fifth avenue in an apartment overlooking central park and i have never been arrested in my life and never been in a fight unless i was protecting myself so get all the facts before u judge someone