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
