Taxi

It's 2000, Sarajevo, BiH.

I was sitting at my desk munching on an apple when I heard a suspicious crunch in my mouth. I spit out apple and part of a tooth. Knowing that Col T had seen a dentist while deployed here, I had asked him how it went. He provided a horror story about going to a German dentist at Raylovac (the Germans provided dental and hospital care for NATO in Sarajevo). He had a filling done and they drilled without any pain killers. He suggested trying to get an appointment in Taszar with an American dentist. We found out much later that the Germans provided pain killers; you just had to ask for them.

So, I called the US medical folks at Tuzla and got an appointment. Now how to get there. It was a four and a half hour drive, but it was winter and that was out. Col T, the IG's and I regularly took flights to conduct training, inspections or investigations, so I knew the drill on how to request flights. I faxed a request to flight ops which was run by the Italia

This happened many years ago now and I almost forgot about it. Experienced controller we shall call Bob.

Idiot Taxi driver we shall call John.

I worked as a controller at a very busy taxi firm. On some days (when Bob wasn't in) I would be in charge of sending jobs for taxi drivers to pick up. My other colleagues would be answering calls and booking in jobs.

Bob and John were really good friends to the envy of other taxi drivers who would complain that John was getting preferential treatment and better jobs. I never said it but Bob definitely gave better jobs (higher paid fares) to John and plenty of connections (pickup another customer some houses down or next street from where he dropped off).

John would do Bob favours like food and stuff almost every other day. Something happened between the two of them on my couple days off. I never got to the bottom of how it started but some drivers said it was over a runner (customer who runs away without paying) and some said it was over fo

This was back in middle of nowhereville, small town policing, I was the only one on shift as my shift partner called off and the rest of the 8 officer department was out of town. Nearest jurisdiction capable of sending backup was 30 minutes away by helicopter or 2.5hrs away by mountian roads.

Call came in via emergency services, multiple bystander calls for a knife fight, roads department confirms they're watching the fight on a traffic camera.

When I pull up, I see 4 individuals fighting, one with a knife, lots of blood everywhere. I failed to answer dispatch during this so they sent a highway patrol unit to my location. I get everybody at gunpoint, one guy collapses right infront of me from blood loss, this is where highway patrol shows up. Knifeman drops the knife. We call the (consious) suspects back one by one to be detained and searched. Everybody got cuffed and laid down on their sides on the ground.

Started the air ambulance services, called the fire department to set up

Today uproar seems to be this taxi driver blocking an (company owned) ambulance after voluntarily causing a (minor / cosmetic) accident while the ambulance was trying to go through the traffic while no one moved aside to make way.

The patient in the ambulance passed away later at the hospital and the authorities are trying to find a link between the 15 minutes delay from the accident and the death.

The taxi driver has been recorded physically blocking the ambulance driver from driving out of this situation. He even said that he'll take responsibility himself in the case the patient died.

So yesterday a petition has been setup and it has more than 300k signatures.

Short video : https://youtu.be/77gjeewEMqo

The video with explanations : https://youtu.be/_-HqstYHK8E

The petition : https://www1.president.go.kr/petitions/590341

My own thoughts :
As a somewhat experimented driver, I think South Korea has a big problem with driving etiquette.

This is leading to this

“A SPECIAL DELIVERY WAS DEMANDED OF ME, AND NOW I HAVE DELIVERED!”

"MY DELIVERY TIMES ARE ALWAYS ON THE HOUR, NOT A MINUTE BEFORE AND NOT A MINUTE AFTER."

So, a bit of info before I get started. 1) my dad is legally blind and henceforth he can't drive. 2) he's Asian and is a monk so wears robes and other religious clothing so he looks like a tourist. TL; DR at the bottom. Btw I'm about as good at punctuation as I am at flying ( I can't fly) so don't go ape shit on me for that

Ok so my dad (who had been living in the same place in Australia for almost 15 years at the time and knew his way around pretty well) needed to get from one place to another one day and, as I mentioned before, he's legally blind so he has to use buses and taxis etc to get anywhere and seeing as he was in a bit of a hurry he had decided to call a taxi and pay the extra 5-10$ as he was only going about 5 kilometres away, now the place my dad wanted to go was about a 10 minute drive from where he was so When the taxi pulled up my dad asked to get driven to the place the driver took one look at his appearance and and made the assumption that he was a tourist so inds

Passenger: "Who?"

Cabbie: "Frank Feldman. He's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time."

Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."

Cabbie: "Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy."

Passenger: "Sounds like he was really something special."

Cabbie: "There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman could do everything right.”

Passenger: "Wow, what a guy!"

Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. N

This is a tip thread for the new taxi update. I've finally unlocked the taxi by increasing my rating to 4 stars (only for the old man, after he gave me the car, I was back to being a reckless sasquatch).

In my opinion, the best taxi car in the game is the fully-upgraded Super Car (the 2000 coin sports car from the dealership, with 3000 coins of upgrades in it). It's better than even the taxi.

The taxi, even after being upgraded to the max level in the garage, is pretty slow and it's prone to drifting, which knocks points off the rating. The advantage of having multiple passengers is not actually all that useful in the game because the way that the fares are spread out. You rarely encounter multiple fares along the same route, and the speed sacrifice you make by driving the unlocked taxi compared to the super car almost never is made up for by its ability to carry multiple passengers.

On the other hand, I think it is literally impossible to cause the sully-upgraded super car to dr

I hear this a lot coming from Americans but rarely from other countries. Do you agree with it? Why? Why not?

Edit: "ambulance isn't your taxi to the hospital"

Interfacility transport is not just a taxi service. It's more of a taxi service AND moving company service exept you move 300 pound humans. Give my abused back some credit.

i don't really know the situation in other areas but free taxis roaming are getting very dangerous. they are drugging passengers and pulling guns, knives stealing everything you have.

others are also hiring ze3ran as passengers to make it seem safe and then they attack you inside.

every day there are several cases like that. so please watch out and only go with lisenced ones (nemra hamra) or ones from an official maw2af (plus bel mawe2ef ba3da el official fee 1000 lira while the other ones are demanding 2000 and 3000)