New York City cabbies cheat customers out of millions every year. By the way, the sun comes up in the morning, and air is free , for now.

fix that headline for ya subby.

figures the air is free in a socialist mecca like new york, and have you seen this free air? you get what you pay for libs.

Where can I get air for free?

I've been paying Guido $43 a day just so I could breathe.

Please help.

coco ebert: Not if the powerful air industry interests have their way in Congress.

Seriously. You think air just grows on trees?

fusillade762: coco ebert: Not if the powerful air industry interests have their way in Congress.

Seriously. You think air just grows on in trees?

/sorta

Air isn't exactly free here. We have to pay an emissions council to ensure that we can continue to breathe. Or drive from October to March.

thomps: and air is free

in chicago our cabs have a $1.00 air surcharge and a $0.50 fee for every additional passenger that requires oxygen :(

I like farking around with cabbies in the city. I'll take a cab on a route I usually drive and I'm quite familiar with. Sometimes I'll botch the address and act like I don't know the area, other times I'll give specifics.

If you botch, they extend. If you're specific, they beeline. If they extend and you ask why they took a turn when they didn't have to, hilarity ensues.

/likes most late night cabbies
//they're usually happy to not have a drunk guy at 3AM
///they have -hilarious- stories

I dunno, it think it's a good idea to have them keep keeping records. Otherwise, you wouldn't have any proof on how much they're abusing this and how ineffective it is.

"...the air is free."

...but it smells as though someone has been frying goats...

Smugly Farkling: "...the air is free."

...but it smells as though someone has been frying goats...

Because someone HAS been.

mud_shark: Where can I get air for free?

I've been paying Guido $43 a day just so I could breathe.

Please help.

That's actually an air "protection" fee... And don't you tell anyone 'bout that either!!!

mud_shark: Where can I get air for free?

I've been paying Guido $43 a day just so I could breathe.

Please help.

Wait, there are guidos in New York?.

CygnusDarius: mud_shark: Where can I get air for free?

I've been paying Guido $43 a day just so I could breathe.

Please help.

Wait, there are guidos in New York?.

I didn't know there was anything BUT guidos in New York.

The ones in Philly are truly hilarious with this kind of thing.

Satanic_Hamster: I dunno, it think it's a good idea to have them keep keeping records. Otherwise, you wouldn't have any proof on how much they're abusing this and how ineffective it is.

Crap, wrong thread.

This is a very specific rip-off. But, almost all of the stories of NYC cabs pulling scams are a myth.

Especially the one about driving you in circles to run up the meter.

Cab drivers make more money taking people on lots of short trips. And because there are so few cabs by design they are almost always in demand.

The one crime they are often guilty of is refusing to drive to outer boro neighborhoods.

take one of these next time...



it may cost a bit more, but most of us will never cheat anyone. you can smoke weed in the back too, you just gotta share with your driver.

Yeah, but think of all the free TV you can watch when they're driving you around the block 30 times ...

"New York City cabbies cheat customers out of millions every year. By the way, the sun comes up in the morning, and air is free"

Not in cabs.

CashMoneyGifford: take one of these next time...



it may cost a bit more, but most of us will never cheat anyone. you can smoke weed in the back too, you just gotta share with your driver.

Link (new window) Yea, Pedicab drivers are sane

What "Air that is not free" may look like.



/hot

Still waiting for Taxi ! references...

That's nothing compared to the crooked cab drivers in Prague.

casdawg87: CashMoneyGifford: take one of these next time...



it may cost a bit more, but most of us will never cheat anyone. you can smoke weed in the back too, you just gotta share with your driver.

Link (new window) Yea, Pedicab drivers are sane

yeaaah ive seen the pedicab driver/cab driver fight. sure the pedicab driver is an idiot, so was the cab driver... he blaring his horn at the pedicab in manhattan traffic, cuts off the person in the left lane, uses his vehicle as a weapon to stop the pedicab, then gets out of his cab halting traffic.

again i'm not justifying what the pedicab driver did, but i've been on the receiving side of a cabbie using his vehicle as a weapon and have held back the hurling your coffee and going apeshait urges.


better pedicab vs. cab fight: Link (new window)

outback_rebel: CashMoneyGifford: take one of these next time...



it may cost a bit more, but most of us will never cheat anyone. you can smoke weed in the back too, you just gotta share with your driver.

They have guys like that in Austin, but they just work off of tips

yeah different areas work it differently. i do it in chicago and have taken rides for 0$ to 300$. if you are going a mile or less and dont have like 8 people, i will usually just ask for a tip.

Tymast: figures the air is free in a socialist mecca like new york, and have you seen this free air? you get what you pay for libs.

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GaryPDX: By the way, the sun comes up in the morning, and air is free

Not anymore. It contains CO2. Don't you pay attention? The EPA has declared it a hazardous material and anyone producing CO2 will be fined. When Cap and Tax Leftistlation takes affect, everyone will pay through the nose for the air we breath.

predictable. and stupid.

thomps: DeathByGeekSquad: thomps: and air is free

in chicago our cabs have a $1.00 air surcharge and a $0.50 fee for every additional passenger that requires oxygen :(

I like farking around with cabbies in the city. I'll take a cab on a route I usually drive and I'm quite familiar with. Sometimes I'll botch the address and act like I don't know the area, other times I'll give specifics.

If you botch, they extend. If you're specific, they beeline. If they extend and you ask why they took a turn when they didn't have to, hilarity ensues.

/likes most late night cabbies
//they're usually happy to not have a drunk guy at 3AM
///they have -hilarious- stories

yeah i'm always amused by the routes they suggest taking from the airport when i just give them an address. i'm pretty sure they'd take me from o'hare to lakeview via midway if they thought they could get away with it.

If you don't have a crazy amount of luggage per person, just take the L, especially going to Lakeview. Might not always be faster, but O'Hare to Belmont or Addison via the Jackson transfer tunnel is predictably $2.25. I found myself in Chicago several times last year, and taking the train in from Midway was never an issue.

Dr. Luftwaffle: Those cab fares are why I run everywhere in NYC. It's... Safe-er.

Just be wary of offers for free dentistry.

JeffTL: just take the L

how is that comparable to a taxi? you have to wait for the train. stand on the tracks. up stairs /down stairs. stop at each stop on the way.

You are forgetting that a cabby is curbside to curbside. Are you comparing them in terms of time or what is the basis? because obviously taking shiatty public transport vs. getting a ride in a private commercial vehicle (not a shuttle with other passengers) is the same?

/walking is cheaper
//staying home and not going at all is even cheaper than that

Air is cheap. It's Oxygen that is expensive.

kona: Las Vegas cabbies are notorious for clicking on the airport surcharge on every ride

vegas cabbies also are the reason that the monorail does not go to the airport. Farkin lobbies.


Also, they will take a lap around the airport before heading to the strip.

Meh

I have to fly to Atlanta on a regular basis - I would gladly pay an NYC rape rate if it meant I didn't have to fear for my life riding in a cab from ATL to downtown.

Recent adventures

- Driver arguing on the phone and wandering over 2 1/2 lanes
- Driver repeatedly falling asleep (at 2 PM) and me poking him in the shoulder
- Driver heading south from the airport - when Atlanta and the rest of the world is North

- etc..

Of course, they feel it's entirely justified based on the number of fares that split without paying. For the cabbies, at least, it probably breaks about even.

/something something hot like something

mud_shark: Where can I get air for free?

I've been paying Guido $43 a day just so I could breathe.

Please help.

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Guido Polution producing energy companies (E.G. Peabody Coal & Exxon): Say, that sure is some nice air you've got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it...


/Mind if I smoke?