Taxi Safety

[Huang_Guang_Chen]

But whatever you do, Don’t feed the f*cking pigeons!

I’m fairly sure you can still shag 'em though.

I recall the police nabbed a driver of a blue truck that had pulled over off the freeway near Hsinchu to shag an obviously attractive goose. He was later released because they didn’t have any laws to charge him under. I presume that window of endless opportunity is still wide open.

HG

[EddieG]

@gcat

However, one of the girls who studies at the language center at Zhengda said that she had problems with a taxi recently. She’s about 19 and speaks very little Chinese. I wasn’t with her, but this is what she told me. She said that the taxi driver took her up on the highway behind Mujia (which he didn’t need to do), and slowed right down, put his seat back and jacked off while staring at her. She screamed until he stopped the car and she got out. She went to the police and they laughed and said that there was nothing they could do as she had nothing to i.d. the taxi.

Man am I glad that we always make sure the girls get to their dorm before we go up the mountain! That’s some of the sickest shit ever. But if the police won’t do anything about it… Damn, this guy can do that shit all day, every day.

[ajklin]

@david

…What about flooding Premier Su with complaints. 2 days ago he announced that he was ‘cracking down on crime’ and would leave politics if things didn’t improve in 6 months. …

He did? He’ll lose his job in six months then. I’m not optimistic about it. This isn’t the first time (or second time) when the government said they’d “crack down on crime.” The politicians and government workers or civil servants come from the society. The quality is worrysome and there’s the commitment issue.

Sorry to hear those taxi stories!

[tempogain]

@jdsmith

Random violence against people on the street is NOT a big enough problem for the police to take notice? What is? Death?

cmon JD, people die every day.

[Gao_Bohan]

@Feiren

…and of course the police have better things to do than check taxi drivers.

Right. They’re way too busy mocking victims of assault and unwanted sexual contact.

To the OP: Have you heard anything else? Are the victims going to press charges despite the police obstructing their efforts?

[jdsmith]

@Tempo Gain

[quote=“jdsmith”] Random violence against people on the street is NOT a big enough problem for the police to take notice? What is? Death?

cmon JD, people die every day.[/quote]

Death caused by that random violence.

I think you knew that but I’m terrible at reading sarcasm.

[braxtonhicks]

[quote]
To the OP: Have you heard anything else? Are the victims going to press charges despite the police obstructing their efforts?[/quote]

Sorry, haven’t heard any updates. The lady says she is worn out from all of it and I doubt she wants to be reminded of it. I don’t know her personally.

[Lord_Lucan]

@trebuchet

I think it’s a good idea for a woman to carry a cameraphone, and when she gets into a cab, playfully take a picture of the driver and email it to a friend or boyfriend. Do the same with the liscense number.

Fair enough, but it is worth remembering that even if you had the chief of police beside you in the taxi and a BBC film crew taping the whole thing the police will do nothing to assist you. The only police worth ringing are the FAP and you MUST ring the Apple Daily (0809-012-555; fax 0809-013-666). The order in which you do this is: (1) FAP (2) Apple Daily (3) Local plod (4) Xinhua. The send copies of everything to Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian.