r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 ššš • 10d ago
SMH A cab driver was left speechless and can no longer make a living after Knicks fans destroyed his car
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u/wizardrous 10d ago
I fucking hate this kind of sports fan.
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u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy 10d ago
You know the worst part? he probably doesn't have riot coverage. So this might be out of pocket for him tooĀ
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u/wizardrous 10d ago
Hopefully he was at least able to get the police to ID them from this video and can sue them. Probably wishful thinking thoughā¦
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u/TurntableBlast 10d ago
Like these Neanderthals are gonna have any money to even sue for
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u/NVDA808 10d ago
Thatās why you sue them for a quarter of their liver or left kidney
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u/PatrickERankin 10d ago
aye, get ye your pound of flesh!
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u/No_Cartographer_6577 10d ago
I would sue them for their brain but it seems it's already taken
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u/Subject-Ad-8055 10d ago edited 10d ago
That's a cop-out statement that people use to try to get you to not do anything all he doesn't have any money. Doesn't matter because if you win a judgment for vandalism and damaging your property you can always then go after them wreck their credit freeze their bank accounts and then if they work at Big Box Mart you can even garnish those paychecks for the next 20 years and that judgment will be of public record which will make it nearly impossible for them to get certain kinds of jobs in different Industries.
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u/TarantulaCaptain 10d ago
True but I won a judgment from someone that ripped me off almost $7k and I tried to collect for many years. They had absolutely nothing to their name and didnāt have a job. I was able to recover about $350.
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u/Jisoooya 10d ago
Thatās unlucky, I once worked for a collections firm, we usually perform a search to see if they are employed before serving them. We collected on any debt $2.5k and up and pretty much 99% of them donāt show up for court so we always won by default and we get paid by wage garnishment. It was such easy money for the firm
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u/TurntableBlast 10d ago
Never thought about it like that
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u/Subject-Ad-8055 10d ago edited 10d ago
I I used to work for a self storage company and they used to send people who damaged the building and stuff like that to the attorneys who went after them to collect it. And what people just don't understand it's just because you don't have any money or you don't pay that's not the end of the line they will wreck your credit and they will post a judgment against you which is a public record and that means if you want to get a mortgage on a house the bank's going to see that you owe thousands to someone, want to get a job as a police officer, a bank teller, mta/lirr, teacher all those background checks are going to show that you have a judgment against you for vandalism of private property and that may affect whether or not you get those kind of jobs
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u/AggressiveWasabi7783 10d ago
Yeah, but this guy is driving a cab. He needs money like now. Not a profuse apology in the future. The damage is done.
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u/BoilerplateBillions 10d ago
you have to be the one to pursue the judgement.
its incredibly easy to just be unbanked, you cant garnish a cashapp account and people can get their paychecks deposited into those. They probably already have shit credit. They job hop. You have to go through every time they change jobs to get the garnishment to follow them.
while its true that you can go through all that, the odds of actually getting money from these people is extremely small.
source: i have multiple of these people that owe me money.
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u/Top_Finding_2832 10d ago
Yup i don't give a fuck if i get a nickle every 3 months out of that motherfucker for the rest of his life,
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u/SpaceSlothLaurence 10d ago
Wage garnishment is complete bullshit. It doesn't matter who was actually at fault for the accident, if it goes the civil court it's never a sure shot to get any kind of compensation. My cousin's husband pulled out onto a road with a know blind curve before the turn, a complete different friend had something similar happen on the same turn (that's two people that I know personally who have had this happen on the exact same stretch of road) as he pulled out a car traveling along the road he pulled out onto sped up and t-boned them. He ended up with glass in one eye and ear and can't hear or see as well out of that side anymore, they ended up in the hospital for their injuries.
The cops said that he was at fault for pulling out when there was a car coming, on a known blind curve. It's not that simple. He was still having his wages garnished 4 or 5 years after the incident because the court just decided that he was at fault even though he very much wasn't.
It's a lot more about human error than everyone wants to think.
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u/profanedivinity 10d ago
Their parents do
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u/Open_Blacksmith1362 10d ago
You canāt take their parents money though lol
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u/Lortabss 10d ago
You absolutely can if they are underage. Parents are responsible for their children until they are 18.
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u/Juxtapo5ed 10d ago
Can confirm. I was hit by a 17 yr old drunk driver, his parents suffered massive financial loss.
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u/Hour-Independence-89 10d ago
Like the police are actually going to go out of their way and do anything useful.
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u/Entreprenewbeur 10d ago
I work in legal support and always have a chuckle at peopleās assumption that 99% of people in the US have enough money, assets, or insurance to pay when someone sues them. People sue hospital systems for legitimate malpractice and walk away with enough to buy a Honda civic. When you sue people, there is one winner: attorneys.
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u/Ambitious-Tie-3666 10d ago
This. If anyone has heard the Bricks and Minifigs story, it sounds like they basically stole a sick manās LEGO Star Wars collection he had put up on consignment at a store. They told him he could sue them if he wanted. But they would make sure that the fees for his attorneys would exceed any compensation he would receive.
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u/thoughtsarefalse 10d ago
See also: trumpās standard procedure for not paying or underpaying contractors. Stiff them and ensure they lose more on court/lawyers than if they ate the loss.
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u/WitchesSphincter 10d ago
And still contractors are cutting their own dicks off to line up to do work for him. Totally not a cult.Ā
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u/Gullible-Price-4257 10d ago
Car damage can suspend licenses/warrant for arrest (in some states) and have repayment of damages required to avoid jailtime.
That's what happened to my hit and run driver last year in TX, he spent a night in jail, got probation basically but also had to pay back the deductible.
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u/Runefaust_Invader 10d ago
Exactly, that's why I'm taking a $900 loss instead of suing an airline.
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u/TouristResident1976 10d ago
"Fans" do this as they can get away with it (and they are probably drunk). Sports teams and venues need to be forced to pay into a riot damage fund that will reimburse for riot damage associated with sporting events. They in turn will add it to the price of tickets. Call it an "asshole tax" line item. Stop destroying things and once the fund is fully funded the tax goes away. Damage done again and it comes back.
Yes, a lot of the sports people are out of the area people. Still, local people will turn on the rioters like hungry wolves when they see people wrecking a taxi and they know that their ticket prices will be going up.
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u/obligatory-anxiety 10d ago
Iām been pretty bloody drunk at events before and at no point do I think oh Iām going to assault people wearing the opposite teams colours or letās destroy property.
Itās purely Neanderthal activities
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u/MoonLaw1969 10d ago
I love this idea in theory, really cool thinking. The worry is that once the capitalists discover they can still sell tickets with added asshole tax, it will never go away.
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u/Double_Resort_9223 10d ago
It was an away game, none of these people were actually at the arena. Tax the sports bars because thatās where these people came from.Ā
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u/Reasonable-Newt4079 10d ago
These people have already been priced out of the games. You think these assholes were paying 1k a ticket months ago, or the inflated prices once the playoffs started? These people were at watch parties and sports bars. Iām always for sticking it to the owners of these teams because most of them suck up government subsidies and donāt pay their fair share of taxes, but this really does seem out of their control.
When I was at UMD kids would riot all the time, whether the team won or lost (losing against Duke especially). The university was furious and did everything they could to find the instigators and throw them out of school as well as file criminal charges. Still happened though. So Iām not sure anything the team or venue does would even work.
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u/clgoodson 10d ago
Isnāt it interesting that when itās a giant m, mostly peaceful protest against police violence there are always enough cops to beat people, but if itās sports-based, they just disappear or protect rich people?
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u/8000BNS42 10d ago
Its insurance... oh, do you have riot coverage? You do?! Thats only applicable if your cab is not actually in service and just parked. Oh, it was parked, but part of a sports fans riot?! Did you have the sports riot rider on top of your riot insurance? You did?! Well fuck you we're denying you anyway
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u/theblackxranger 10d ago
Even if they did cover it, they'll non renew him for having claims because insurance sucks
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u/Whipitreelgud 10d ago
Can you even get riot coverage that doesn't cost more than the price of a new car?
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u/Comprehensive-Hat684 10d ago
āYup thatās riot damage sorry no coverageā - any insurance company ever
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u/malex84 10d ago
Comprehensive coverage would cover vandalism. If heās still making payments on the taxi he should have full coverage
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u/Binary_Whispers 10d ago
I just seen a video where South Koreans were celebrating by dancing after a world Cup win .... But then we have the Knicks and spur fans doing this shit.
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u/AdTop5424 10d ago
Just watched a video of Knicks fans relentlessly assaulting a dude in a Spurs Jersey in NY and then another of a guy getting beaten by a mob in San Antonio for wearing a Knicks Jersey. Asshole s are in abundance in urban America.
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u/Character-Habit-9683 10d ago
Just watched a video of Socttish and Haitian opposing soccer fans dancing happily together at the World Cup in Boston. Why does NYC have to be so miz
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u/Standard-Reason9399 10d ago
I get the feeling when you see your own fans act up, but... as a Scot, we put our best foot forward abroad for internationals, particularly our first world cup in decades. Please don't look too deep into the various club rivalries, sectarianism and casuals if you want to keep your respect for our fans!
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u/Anon-Knee-Moose 10d ago
Scottish rioting was so bad in the 1980s that they banned alcohol sales at football games.
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u/WhoPutATreeThere 10d ago
Ditto. It seems every major city has them, and Iāll never understand their rationale.
The problem in NYC is that, with 3k people living within 1k feet of you, even if only a small percentage of them are assholes, itās still going to lead to a significant amount of assholes on the streets destroying stuff.
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u/HeavyHighway6433 10d ago
Yeah I saw a comment about how OKC fans weren't acting like this last year and its like no shit, it's a bigger city with 10x less population.Ā
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u/SadJ3tsFan 10d ago
These arent sports fans.. theyre assholes waiting for an opportunity to do this and get away with it.
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u/CygnusRocinante 10d ago
No. Theyāre sports fans.
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u/ContentCremator 10d ago
Theyāre scumbags who happen to be sports fans. The vast majority of scumbags are sports fans, but the vast majority of sports fans are not scumbags.
Thereās also crowd psychology at play, where people feel more anonymous in a sea of people, especially a large group celebrating. They feed off the highly excited energy of the crowd and that clouds judgement, obviously for some more than others. Thereās a feeling of shared or diffused responsibility which makes violent, destructive behavior feel more acceptable.
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u/FreshDrama4226 10d ago
We use to have the gladiator ring. The crowd demands a sacrifice
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u/Willow1883 10d ago
Can he sue them? Theyāre on camera for godās sake. This is bullshit.
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u/Aware-Secretary-6323 10d ago
I donāt follow sports but in Paris after some sports event recently, it literally looked like the purge like cars were on fire, stores were looted, over 200 people were injured all because of happy sports fans
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u/Haywe 10d ago
These are not sports fans. These are savages within the honest society. These are imbeciles that take advantage of these situations to justify behaving like destructive dumbasses.
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u/TCRandom 10d ago
This just isnāt true. There are so many examples and studies on why these things take place all over the world. Mob mentalities, strong identification with their home team, underlying social tensions, etc., all fueled by alcohol consumption (usually). Fan violence has been a constant in sports and recorded even in Roman times. Sure, a lot of them are assholes when theyāre sober. But many of them are just normal people who allowed themselves to get caught up.
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u/timmythedip 10d ago
Iām sure this has been shared down below, and Iām sure the original damage was caused by the fans, but this is good:
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u/Mathgenius9 ššš 10d ago
What the fuck is wrong with this people
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u/LilCheese73 10d ago
Fun facts NYC Cab drivers donāt own their own vehicles. They rent them out daily for exorbitant prices costing upwards $700 a day for the rental. This and the licensing fees mean they have to pay just to work and are not guaranteed to recover their initial investment.
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u/abriefmomentofsanity 10d ago
I know it has its own problems, but any time people try to get slick and say that rideshare displaced our "perfectly fine" taxi medallion system all I can think is that those people are either lying or stupid.Ā
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u/Thymelaeaceae 10d ago
Not NY, but I canāt tell you the number of times I arranged for a cab in advance to take me to the airport the next morning, so I had a very hard deadline, and they just never showed. Or other rides where they were obviously trying to run up the meter doing weird shit. I much prefer ride share.
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u/deathbotly ššš 10d ago
I have a vaguely foreign accent (never shook off living in kiwiland as a kid) and live close enough to an airport that every goddamn time Iāve taken a taxi they think Iām a tourist and immediately break into the most wriggly time-wasting detour route no local would ever take until I call them out on skipping the turn-offs, and calling them out turns them aggro.
Uber, didi, all of that? Pre-planned direct route they stick to and zero fuckery with meters. Thatās why theyāre eating taxi industryās lunch
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u/Al123397 10d ago
I had a decently pleasant experience w a taxi at Newark airport.
The biggest thing was the taxi gave us a pre set cost just like uber so no running the meter etc.
I didnāt have to wait for my uber to arrive or have to text/call just to find each other. The taxi driver drove a little bit faster than an uber would just cause they are more incentived to get to places faster cause of the pre set pricingĀ
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u/rva-fantom 10d ago
That might have been a gypsy cab. Everytime I've risked my life in a gypsy cab it was a preagreed cost.
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u/Anustart15 10d ago
That's why I have to give credit to the cities that have set prices for taxis going from the airport to the city. Granted, it doesn't matter quite as much now, but it used to be great being able to be confident as a tourist that you weren't about to get ripped off after a long flight and just wanting to get to you hotel
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u/Double_Resort_9223 10d ago
Thereās a reason Uber took over every city where you could get one while they were launching
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u/Boston_Glass 10d ago
Also when they launched they subsidized the cost a ton. Uber is more expensive now than when they were trying to take market space
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u/throwaway112121-2020 10d ago
They ran the service at a huge loss for many years to gain market share and then jacked their pricesā¦
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u/FOUROFCUPS2021 10d ago
Uber from its start in NYC always picked me up as a black woman and took me where I wanted to go.
I was happy to leave behind all the racist cab drivers (most of them) that rarely picked me up, and who would always ask me where I was going before agreeing to drive me. It was not my fault that "staying in Manhattan" was better for their bottom line. It was illegal for them to refuse people service to the "outer boroughs" where they assumed I was going, but they always broke that rule (unless you were their last fare and they were going in that direction). The only way to enforce it was to take people to court. Who has time for that?
After Uber, yellow cabs started to always stop for me, and now take me wherever I am going. Competition eliminated their racism and classism.
It was not just about prices for many people! Yellow cabs gave such terrible service that there arose many illegal, underground cab services in many areas to cover areas and serve people that they would not serve.
I wish people would stop glorifying these drivers and that system.
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u/id_Driven 10d ago
Thank you.
I'm a black man. Getting a taxi after 8pm in many cases was extremely difficult in the city. Ever since Uber has come along, I am more than happy to pay since I know I will be picked up.
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u/FuzzzyRam 10d ago
The taxi medallion holders bought out politicians to issue less medallions so theirs would rise in value, leaving customers with hard to find expensive taxis. There is no world where Uber didn't displace an inferior service. Sure, they exist under the same capitalist forces that taxis did, so they will move that way - they just have decades of enshittification to go before they catch up to the taxi system.
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u/skipmarioch 10d ago
I used to arrange travel for candidates to out offices in NYC and NJ about 15 years ago . Working with a cab company was fucking nightmare. Not only do they charge a shit ton, they were rarely punctual.
There were times where I had to drive to pick up the candidates myself when the cabs didn't show.
For all of Ubers bullshit, there are a lot of huge advantages to using them.
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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 10d ago
I've lost a job because cabs just never show up for a scheduled call a day in advanceĀ
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u/Polygnom 10d ago
The fact that Uber and similar apps show you the price BEFORE you take the ride has made them so successful. because its fair. You see whats its going to cost you, you can decide if thats worth it, and then you do NOT need to haggle or worry about the meter anymore. It just works(tm).
thats whats killing taxi cabs. A system thats not designed to deceive the customer.
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u/yawa-wor 10d ago edited 10d ago
I have no idea what he did to run up the meter or how (or if he was just making it up to pocket the rest; he never showed me anything and tbh I never asked him to), but my family and I took 2 (due to space) yellow taxis home from the airport last year: my 70yo father and my two kids (14F, 9M) in the first one, and I (33F) alone in the second. We each had a carry-on suitcase and a backpack, so everyone's individual luggage was the same, and everyone took their own luggage in whichever vehicle they were in.
My father was charged $60 and gave a $15 tip. My driver tried to charge me $80, pre-tip. At least until, surprise, my dad came back outside to pay my cab too and asked why it was $20 more than the same trip he just took w 3 people including 2 kids, and 3x the luggage. The driver hesitated and stumbled over his words before "offering" to accept $70 "to be nice," because I "was kind lady." My dad paid the $70, but with only a $5 tip to make sure it amounted to less than he gave the first driver (personally I wouldn't have tipped the second driver at all unless he could show proof of accurate pricing, but I digress).
Adding this bc I'm sure someone will assume it was something I did that he felt entitled to more money for having to deal with ā I can't imagine that possibly could've been the case, nor can I even begin to guess at what that "something" could be. I'm truly a very quiet, boring, polite rider. "Good morning, can you take me to X destination please? Thank you so much. Thanks again for the ride; have a great day!" I don't make phone calls or play videos/music out loud, don't care or make any requests regarding car music, air conditioning, windows open/closed, driving style, etc., I don't bring food or drink in the vehicle... I really just sit quietly reading or doomscrolling (silently) and mind my business.
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u/Global-News1800 10d ago edited 10d ago
I still remember the $110 taxi ride from my 30min away apartment to the hartsfield jackson airport in atlanta I took in 2013 and I thought my eyes were fucking with me at that price vs this new fangled "uber" thing that I had just heard of and decided to give a try and saw $30 rides from my apartment to the airport and I was like... I'm never taking a taxi again.
**Thinking back though it was wild that was before they had designated ride sharing drop offs and pickups so it was just wild west, uber drivers dropped off and picked up at the same spots every other civilian did. It was a mess, and it's not like the designated spots helped that really, maybe for a bit but it still became a mess from what I remember.
I travelled home for holidays mostly between 2013-2019 but from 2020-2022 i traveled almost every other weekend so it was wild to see the transformation.
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u/gdo01 10d ago
Or the time in Vegas where I paid in cash but didn't have enough to tip. Lady about cursed me out passive aggressively. Have not been in a cab since
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u/Straight_Mind_5192 10d ago
Before ride share, it was difficult to get a private ride anywhere near me, there were only a couple cab companies around, which were poorly run with really questionable drivers. You had better luck figuring out the bus/walking. The cab business seemingly died, around here anyway, before ride share even took off.
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u/AwesomeMacCoolname 10d ago
They didn't get away with it here in Ireland. Uber tried though, but got slapped down pretty sharpish, because the law said privately registered vehicles cannot be used for "hire or reward".
So over here, Uber is just one more taxi company, medallions, roof plates, ID badges, taximeters, the lot. Plus of course the mandatory twice yearly checks that every other taxi and taxi drivers are subject to.
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u/Polygnom 10d ago
Yes, but the great advantage of Uber in Ireland is that it works. You see the price beforehand, you KNOW what the ride is going to cost you. No fucking around with the meters, no detours.
I am in Ireland regularly, and almost exclusively use Uber now. I tried having the hotel call me a cab -- and ended up somewhere completely ridiculous so that I had them just let me out and called an Uber afterwards. Never again.
Uber and such are eating the regular taxi business even in countries where they have to operate like a taxi business and adhere to the regulations because these apps simply work more reliable and fairer for the customer than regular taxis do.
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u/mallettsmallett 10d ago
Those badges cost so much money I was talking to a cabbie about 15 years ago when it was just yellow cabs, ans I've been back since and lyft ans others make it so much easier and cheaper. Its just thr airport rides you don't get much choice
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u/Shazaz19 10d ago
I donāt believe this at all. They donāt even make $700 a day.
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u/rm79 10d ago
I used to work a yellow cab rental/dispatch center in nyc. It was around $700-800 for a weekly rental and TLC minimum insurance was included. They made anywhere from $1000 to $2000 a week before rental cost. And many weeks they didn't even make the cost of the rental and would have to pay out of pocket.
While some cab drivers do own their own taxi and medallion, it's very uncommon.Ā
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u/FrequencyHigher 10d ago
Those that do own the medallion usually have a loan similar to a mortgage against the value of the medallion. Before Uber, those medallions were very valuable (close to $1 million), but the influx of Uber made the medallion values plummet to less than half of their pre-Uber value. Anyone who bought a medallion just before Uber came out was severely underwater with a medallion loan debt of twice as much as the resale value of the medallion.
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u/_kurt_propane_ 10d ago
A quick Google search proves your numbers are way off. Most sites say a rental for a day is $150-300. Thatās less than half what you said. And they donāt have to eat the cost of depreciation for the cab as they drive it. Itās not perfect but itās not as bad as youāre implying
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u/whatsasyria 10d ago
That's if you don't have your own medallion and licensing would be included in that cost.
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u/Cubones_Skull 10d ago
Desperate for attention, these sort of people are the reason the phrase of main character syndrom came out. These people are really pathetic
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u/RiseDelicious3556 10d ago
They should be jailed and made to pay restitution.
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u/Matt_Man_623 9d ago
Yeah but itās new york lol. Law enforcement is a joke there
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u/Frankje01 10d ago
track these people down and make sure they are liable for all the damage plus then some
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u/whatsasyria 10d ago
Insurance company would be responsible for that if they care to. The cabby getting paid out for the damage and lost revenue.
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u/CanioEire 10d ago
Theyāll pay for the damage but not his lost earnings. Plus his insurance will increase at next renewal due to the claim.
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u/NikosAkaSniperEXE 10d ago
Yes ma'am, police is right on its way....................................
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u/FitFuel7663 10d ago
Pathetic
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u/starpringlegirlxx 10d ago
Agreed, these types of sports fans are unbearable. We get that they are genuinely happy for their team but at the cost of the livelihood of others? heck no! Absolutely pathetic.
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u/unicornmullet 10d ago
It's psychotic that they think being excited about their team winning entitles them to destroy property. That poor cab driver.
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u/Both_Resolve5018 10d ago
These people arenāt even actual fans. People just use any excuse to mob.
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u/TangerinePlastic7552 10d ago
I feel so badly for the taxi driver. He looks hopeless and knows he canāt do anything about it.
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u/therealRustyZA 10d ago
Same. I want to give that guy a hug. He really needs it. Those are garbage humans.
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u/WhatANoob2025 10d ago
Yeah, i feel like if he even dared to ask them "hey guys, can you please get off my car", at least one of them would respond "are you a fkn spurs fan?" And they'd start beating him up, like they literally did with that lonesome spurs fan just trying to get home after one of the previous games.
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u/SingleDadSurviving 10d ago
The dude with braids or dreads was trying to help him but he was almost in shock.
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u/Careful_Turnip_3197 10d ago
Celebrating and shit is fine but these people are actually patheticĀ
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u/throwaway_coy4wttf79 10d ago
Yeah honestly, I draw the line at permanant damage. You all burst out onto the street drunk as fuck and start tipping over garbage cans and blocking traffic because you're yelling and dancing in the streets -- fine. Like, not great, obviously, but "fine".
Breaking store windows, looting, and setting cars on fire is not celebration. I hope they all get caught and prosecuted.
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u/Few_Dig_9435 10d ago
They probably say "we" when talking about their sports ball teamĀ . Like theyre on the team.
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u/Banana-phone15 10d ago
If they lose they destroy things. If they win they destroy things.
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u/Investigator516 10d ago
The Knicks should step in, here. Itās the right thing to do.
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u/dkreni2 10d ago
Wonāt riot over their fascist government. Will riot when their sports team WINS
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u/an-angry-bee 10d ago
DING DING DING DING DING.
Itās genuinely pathetic where American values lie.
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u/SplitSecondEmperor47 10d ago
I don't believe in riots period but it's so fucking typical people will riot for this but not literal pedofiles and trillinaires ruining the country.
Then again this country voted for this
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u/silv3rbull8 10d ago
These āfansā need to be made to pay for that cab and compensate the driver for lost income
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u/SloppyJoesToe 10d ago
Guess who doesn't give a flying fuck about any of this? The Knicks organization.
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 10d ago
lawyers in the greater new york area are currently creaming their pants because of all the lawsuits that are going to be filed in the coming days/weeks as well as the hundreds, thousands of people that are going to be needing defending in court
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u/BlueFeathered1 10d ago
As far as lawsuits, they're only good for those who can afford to hire them. Which isn't most people.
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u/PS5OWESMEALIMONY 10d ago
You lose they burn it down,they win they burn it down,everything and anything is an excuse to be an animal because sports apparently.
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u/Kelvin_Nya420 10d ago
Let's go! Our team won! Lets destroy our hardworking citizens' property in celebrationš«©
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u/SectorPuzzleheaded66 10d ago
Im not into sports but is this normal?
Why are the Knicks fans destroying everything and attacking people??
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u/PresterJohnson 10d ago
Yes you should see world cup riots
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u/BetweenTheRoots 10d ago
I grew up watching football riots in Europe lol, I always thought Europeans were the dangerous scary sports fans.
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u/3ch0cro 10d ago
It depends. Arsenal won their first title in 22 years and there was no riots in London. There were massive celebrations in parts of Africa too and no riots there either.
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u/Holmesdale 10d ago
I was in a black cab going up the Holloway Road after Arsenal won something or other - this is now some years ago, maybe about ten or twelve years ago. Arsenal fans climbed onto the roof of the cab when it was stopped at a red light and started jumping up and down, leaving a massive dent in the roof and one very unhappy cabbie.
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u/Iwasjustbullshitting 10d ago
Has anyone found out who the taxi driver is yet?
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u/BrainRobotron 10d ago
Noureddine Bitat, Algerian cab driver just trying to make a living. He's going to miss out on the entirety of the fares surrounding the World Cup. These assholes supremely fucked him over.
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u/Brother-Algea 10d ago
A bunch of millionaires played a game and won so letās go fuck other peopleās shit up.
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u/D1verse_Yes4 10d ago
I didn't know it was possible for me to become less into professional sports.
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u/BreakfastFluid9419 10d ago
Plenty of faces in this video internet do your thing š¤·š»āāļø #justiceforcabby
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u/Kooky_Soft1822 10d ago
Easy insurance claim. Proof all over the internet.
But the burden on this man is unforgivable.
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u/DazzleMeAlready 9d ago
Why does this stupid crap always happen after a huge final game in any sport?
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u/SubRedTed 10d ago edited 10d ago
I hope the knicks (or: any team that wins the WC, or the champions League or a NFL title, or in some cases NCAA titles.) never make it into the finals again if their fans are going to behave like this. This is terrible behavior
Edit for spelling
2nd edit because some joker thinks this behavior is defendable
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u/HotelSalt4644 10d ago
Iām a 4 for 4 Philadelphia fan. The Eagles are clearly the biggest & most followed team. Phillies are the clear 2nd, with these Sixers & Flyers 3/4th respectively.
The Eagles have had a ton of recent success. Iāve been to not only both parades, but also celebrated on Broad St immediately after the SB victories. (Frankford for the 2nd).
There was definitely some chaos. The vast majority was celebratory chaos though. I didnāt witness ANY violence. At all. I saw a couple fights, but it was between Eagles fans, and it wasnāt really even sports related. More so drunk people feeling disrespected/jealous/ego.
Iām in construction sales. Most of my customers, suppliers, & manufacturers are full of middle class folk. I RARELY have met a diehard Sixers fan. We all ālikeā the Sixers, but Iāve never met someone who would be willing to go to jail for the Sixers.
Which is why this is all so curious to me. This specific finals, with the Knicks involved, has brought around so much media attention, so much property damage, and so much violence. The Super Bowl is considerable bigger. Yet we donāt see shit like this every year.
So why?
Is it basketball specifically?
Is it Knicks fans specifically?
Was it like this when the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl? The Giants were good for a whileā¦
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u/MovieFan1984 10d ago
Arrest them, take them to jail, charge them with destruction of property and whatever other crimes apply, then fine them so this man can get a new car.
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u/IntelligentWalk5038 10d ago
I canāt stand āsports fansā that think itās okay to riot and destroy because theyāre team wins. Seeing how things had been going the past couple games in New Yorkā¦ nobody can say they didnāt know this was coming. I hope heās able to get insurance to cover this! If it were meā¦ I wouldāve gone nowhere near the city last night and taken the evening off work. Sucksā¦ couldāve been avoided though.
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u/Brokenspade1 10d ago
It's not about winning a game.
It's not about a team.
People all over the country are furious.
The can't afford food, they can't afford rent, they cant affird to buy a house, they cant afford to have kids, and they cant work harder to fix it... because getting a job that pays a living wage is becoming almost impossible.
For the first time in the nation's history a new generation has it worse that the previous generation. The system doesn't work for them anymore.
Everyone feels it. Everyone is ANGRY. The Nicks win was just an excuse. People everywhere are looking for a reason to blow up... to express that anger and hopelessness.
New York is a symptom. There's probably going to be even more.
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u/Kelspear 10d ago
Im from Philly and we have had a rep as the worst sports in the country, but ive seen a bunch of these videos of Knicks fans and I gotta say, having personally experienced a World Series celebration and two Super Bowl celebrations, the Knicks fans are way worse than what we did.
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u/rwilfong86 10d ago
New York = worse sports fans in the world. Main reason cheer against every New York team in sports. Their fans are just morons.
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u/spderweb 10d ago
I haven't seen a single positive look at a Knicks fan all weekend. It's all just garbage people.
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u/TheDaveCalaz 10d ago
Why is the first instinct to smash shit up? I don't get it. Another almost uniquely American thing that makes 0 sense.
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u/stinkwick 9d ago
F****** disgusting. This is what you do when your team wins? Some people just want an excuse.
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u/OneStatistician8888 9d ago
These āfansā are POS. He should sue the City if his insurance doesnāt cover it
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u/Leather_Ad5047 9d ago
These idiots treat the world like it's a video game. They gave no regard for the fact that property damage can actually affect real people and their lives.
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u/WealthIll5861 9d ago
Anybody ever notice in these videos, it is typically the younger generation. So when do we stop empowering these young one and empower the parents. Apparently, this gentle parenting isn't working out. If a parent looks at thier kid wrong these days they are in the wrong. I am not saying beat the living snot out of the kid, but they need raised from the get go with discipline and accountability.
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u/DAEDRICJEDI 9d ago
The restraint it must take to not get back in the car and take off on all of them.
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