Apparently you missed the post where it was still being investigated. On the news they'd be telling you everything about cabs while insisting that information would be forthcoming "real soon". -Curt
On Thursday, January 23, 2020, 1:21:11 PM EST, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Nobody has answered my question. What played out? On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:18 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I've told this story before, I drove a cab in college, fellow cabby told me > this. Details getting foggy, but here's the rough story. Fellow driving > for a different company, same town, had two unrelated passengers in his > cab, a man and a woman. Man starts harassing the woman, IIRC he was not > touching her but was very insistent that she submit to his charms. Despite > request from both woman and driver to lay off, man continues. Driver stops > cab, brandishes pistol and tells the man to get out. Man gets out, calls > cops, and cabby gets arrested in the Peoples Republic of Madison WI. > > A simple enough weapon was a couple athletic socks around a few rolls of > coins. Perfectly legal to have coins, what if I need to make change? > Swing that correctly, connect with head or neck of the perpetrator, they > will probably decide to release the strangle hold. > > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:56 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > > > So I guess the passenger was carrying some sort of weapon? > > > > > > I am skeptical given the vetting process for Lyft and Uber drivers... > > > > > > > All Uber and Lyft drivers (and riders) are contractually prevented from > > bearing > > arms. All sane Uber, Lyft, and taxi drivers are armed anyway. > > > > Mitch. > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com