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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I don't find it hard to believe at all. Wall street bankers have the most embedded sense of entitlement as anyone I've known in any profession or walk of life and they continue to operate that way now. Remember only wall street fraud...gets bailed out.

Once he pulls a knife...all bets are off. Cabbie should get a couple hundred thou...from the greedy capitalist scum and is likely to settle out of court.

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess
If this were true, why do millionaires ever pay for anything, anywhere? I don't see a huge number of cabbies complaining that when they don't get paid, it is always by wealthy people. In fact, the few times I've had discussions with cabbies about who doesn't pay, it usually fits a particular profile - young, drunk people who have been partying in the city (and who are either too drunk to pay or have run out of money or something). I'm not getting the sense that millionaires are running around the city not paying cabbies on a regular basis. I think we would be hearing about it if they did. If anything, the livery services in particular, rely rather heavily on the financial industry for a lot of their fares - and the fares are usually paid for by a corporate account so no one loses any money in that situation.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess
If this were true, why do millionaires ever pay for anything, anywhere? I don't see a huge number of cabbies complaining that when they don't get paid, it is always by wealthy people. In fact, the few times I've had discussions with cabbies about who doesn't pay, it usually fits a particular profile - young, drunk people who have been partying in the city (and who are either too drunk to pay or have run out of money or something). I'm not getting the sense that millionaires are running around the city not paying cabbies on a regular basis. I think we would be hearing about it if they did. If anything, the livery services in particular, rely rather heavily on the financial industry for a lot of their fares - and the fares are usually paid for by a corporate account so no one loses any money in that situation.

It's more likely the ethnic thing, then? I can just see the twat whining in court: "I'd have paid a white cabbie, but some fucking sand n****r trying to extort money from in a cab he's probably stolen from a white working class American? Fuck that..."

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


I myself am entertained by the slippery slope petulance of "If this were true, why do millionaires pay for anything, anywhere?"

All I can say is, wow.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

So you reckon the cabbie cut himself and planted a shiv on the banker to have a fraudulent case to take to court, then?

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We are hearing one version of the story. I'm not saying the cabbie is necessarily lying, but I don't see why we have to believe his version of events as being the only possible thing that could have happened.

I had a cab driver purposely slowly drive into me at an intersection when I was crossing the street as a pedestrian. (And I successfully pursued this guy in court).

I have a friend who was physically attacked by a cab driver who got angry at her because she complained about the route he was taking.

There is a livery driver who raped a female passenger who passed out in his back seat - and he was in fact charged with that crime.

Not all cab/livery drivers are good people. That's all I'm saying.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

For myself,and I realize I don't have to stop here at this thread,but I can not for the life of me work up any interest in this stupid story.
If the facts are as stated Mr I'm entitled will pay thru the court system,even the rich when they are called on their bullshit wind up paying.
Too much else going on to give a shit about one drunk rich guy and one nicked up cabbie....he will wind up being paid,end of story.

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ORIGINAL: fucktoyprincess

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

For myself,and I realize I don't have to stop here at this thread,but I can not for the life of me work up any interest in this stupid story.
If the facts are as stated Mr I'm entitled will pay thru the court system,even the rich when they are called on their bullshit wind up paying.
Too much else going on to give a shit about one drunk rich guy and one nicked up cabbie....he will wind up being paid,end of story.

slvemike4u, yes, all along I've been saying that the cabbie will get money from the banker. Nowhere have I said that wouldn't be the case.

I'm just bothered by the prejudiced comments. It isn't cool to say it's prejudice if certain groups are targeted, but targeting other groups is okay. I think drawing conclusions about anyone based on how much money they have or don't have is prejudiced.

For example, an entertainer like Sting or George Clooney is really wealthy too. Does this make either of them automatically a bad person? And both of them are undoubtedly richer than the banker in this article. But some entertainers are not nice people. Yes, true.

Anyway, yes, enough

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It appears to be a fact of life that the more money you have, the more freebies you get.
That one always puzzles me, to be honest...

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

No issue with that.
It's just that trying to stiff somebody for a (pretty big) cab fair when you could buy out his taxi from petty cash, then getting violent when he takes issue with that is behaviour so vile that hopefully not even Christian "assault and Batmannery" Bale would stoop to it.
There's certainly a lot of shits out there, and that's why it's understandable that people might feel a little pleased when one of them gets caught in the act, dig?

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If this were true, why do millionaires ever pay for anything, anywhere? I don't see a huge number of cabbies complaining that when they don't get paid, it is always by wealthy people. In fact, the few times I've had discussions with cabbies about who doesn't pay, it usually fits a particular profile - young, drunk people who have been partying in the city (and who are either too drunk to pay or have run out of money or something).