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 Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 21:21 Post subject: Some taxi just tried to run me over |
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So I'm at college and there's all these roads that connect all through the whole campus. I don't even know why they have roads on campus, a proper college campus should be fenced off no roads.
So today I'm walking back to residence when this fucking taxi comes out of nowhere doing 100 miles an hour and almost kills the two people beside me and was a split second from running me over. Fucking Canadian drivers. Where would that son of a bitch be rushing off to anyway, punk.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 21:26 Post subject: |
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what college?
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 22:04 Post subject: |
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Shadow Rider I would like to know where you are too. Glad you are ok. My Great Uncle has a wife that was mowed down by a taxi and killed. She was in a cross walk and crossing during a walk sign.
I think with the gas prices/ industry working conditions taxi drivers don't make a lot of money. If they do, I think they really have to hussle it. I hate taxi's, in my area they assume all white women are hookers. Most of the time they are right too. Taxi's arn't the best way to get home after a club or something.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 22:10 Post subject: |
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Wow, I can't believe I'm not the only one who almost got ran over by a taxi, they need to be outlawed from campus period.
I'm at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 22:16 Post subject: |
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Most bigger schools have several roads running through them ... @ both Waterloo and UWO you can get to pretty much any building on campus by car ...
and being a pedestrian everyday on downtown toronto streets, well ... I pay very close attention to idiots not paying attention to anyone but themselves. I wouldn't risk my life by riding a bike on the streets here, that's for sure, although here it is mostly work trucks that are running people over ...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/04/27/to-cyclists20060427.html
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| Posted: Wed, 31st Jan 2007 02:44 Post subject: |
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nouseforaname I don't think that's true. I lived in the States for the last seven years and been around to some of the colleges. Almost all the schools are fenced off no roads, Harvard, Seton Hall, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford. Some schools like NJIT has one road running through it. Its only in Canada that schools are fucked up like ours.
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| Posted: Wed, 31st Jan 2007 03:23 Post subject: |
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The schools you named are exactly your "average" college. Those are the more elite schools which of course are gated and displayed as very secure.
Have you ever been to UCSD? Or SDSU in San diego? UCSD specifically is a city of its own, there are tons of roads and it takes literally ages to go from one end of the campus to the other. It's covered in miles of roads filled with insane students speeding.
Most of the colleges I've looked at have a large number of roads.
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| Posted: Wed, 31st Jan 2007 04:13 Post subject: |
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None of our Uni's are fenced off for drivers. That is how they make money. Parking lot fees.
At UBC all you have to do is look both ways before crossing to the nudie beach, about 1000 steps down:)
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Wed, 31st Jan 2007 07:44 Post subject: |
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| Shadow Rider wrote: | | Its only in Canada that schools are fucked up like ours. |
well yeah, I can't talk for the States, although I have seen a lot of Columbia University ... seems all schools in Canada are road accessable.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 12:24 Post subject: |
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I love taxi drivers. They always take me where I wanna go and charge me an adequate amount for it. Sounds only fair. 
Fuck driving, when you can watch the taxi driver go ape shit at someone who cut him off. Entertainment + Cheap Ride = Hehehehe
Waldo only used the taxi three times. And once he gave the guy wrong directions and he came back home. Running away isn’t as easy as one plans it to be. 
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 12:41 Post subject: |
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1. Most of them follow regular traffic laws like any other driver.
2. Well, it's obviously their risk if they chose not to wear seatbelts. One crash and they come flying through the windscreen.
3. No doubt about that, but that goes for everything, not only taxies.
4. Can you drive me where I want, whenever, and do you know the city's streets by heart? 
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 12:56 Post subject: |
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Mmmm, noodles! The only cheap thing in Norway 
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 15:54 Post subject: |
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It depends where you live in the country I guess. I live in northern Norway and here the minimum you have to pay for a fare is £5.4. For driving 4 kilometers (2.5miles, or about 15 minutes depending on traffic, etc) you pay about £9.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 18:02 Post subject: |
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When we first came to America, we arrived at New York. My dad drove a cab to get our lives started in this country. It's dirt cheap here for a cab and they are everywhere. Yes, he never wore a seatbelt.
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 18:11 Post subject: |
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@KK, immigrated from where?
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Feb 2007 18:34 Post subject: |
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Afghanistan. We moved during the Soviet invasion/occupation of the country. My dad was a freedom fighter who were responsible for fending off the Russians during the time.
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