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Post by yanksgooner on Sept 6, 2007 8:56:40 GMT -5
Not to mention the massive debt they start out with just to get that medallion--an expense I still don't see the logic behind.
It's like buying a small business (for independant cab owners, notht e big depots)...that's how the city looks at it. They're leasing what to you would be 'office space' or a 'store front' to cabbies in order to operate their business.
If the city can sell a license to operate a business at $400K +, they're going to do it. How many profitable businesses do you know of that can be purchased for the bargain price of $100K, apart from an Ebay Store?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 6, 2007 9:10:33 GMT -5
Balls, where are the fantasy baseball numbers? Break it up, already.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 6, 2007 9:11:19 GMT -5
That's an argument, but if you buy a business, you set your own rates for the product you sell. The city also regulates what they can charge. Usually the profit is dependent on the amount of work and there's more potential to grow. While a cabbie's profit IS dependent on his hours there is only so much he can do based on what he can charge.
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Post by baldvinny on Sept 6, 2007 9:49:36 GMT -5
2 things
one, these medallions/licenses give people who can't necessarily get into medical school a chance to make money. half these guys can't find a street downtown, much less be a chairman at johns hopkins or something
and second, you have to remember, cabs can run 24 hours a day. 2 dudes splitting 2 12 hour shifts and you have just doubled the car's productivity. the day guy can do airport runs all day while the night guy takes all the drunks home and they both would probably do pretty well for the day
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Post by kingdzbws on Sept 6, 2007 9:57:19 GMT -5
Fuck 'em all. This strike is a sham. There are tons of cabs on the street picking 4 people up and charging each person to ride. $10 through 1 ZONE, and $5 per Zone afterwards. Last night there were hundreds of them on the upper east side 'negotiating' prices. And if you don't like their offer, well then 'sorry, I am on strike.' Fucking disgrace...and Bloomie gave them this Contingency Pricing. What a fucking farce. Nice tactic guys, fake a strike to fleece the people for a couple of days.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2007 11:30:54 GMT -5
Way to make todays POST, marco!
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Post by Chris on Sept 7, 2007 11:33:37 GMT -5
Anyone here ever catch a cab in Vegas? Man what a world of difference between that an catching a cab in NYC! There must be some cabbie Gestapo out there, because the "doormen" at the hotels and the cabbies themselves are VERY VERY VERY particular about where they can pick you up. I have actually had cabbies prevent me from getting in their cab so they can pull up to an approved "loading zone" some 3-5 feet way and then allow me to enter their cab.
I was once pulled out of a cab I had just gotten into by some sort of doorman, told "Hold on sir, I'll get you a cab"...I got out, and he proceeded to read the cabbie the riot act for taking me in at an (apparently) unapproved spot.
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Post by kingdzbws on Sept 7, 2007 11:44:25 GMT -5
Hey, you caught that TJ...Good Eye!
The guy got to me as I was ranting....should'a heard the rest of my story....its in my blog.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 12, 2007 18:20:14 GMT -5
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. Woman Attacked With Sword in Argument Over Puppy
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bloomington police have filed a preliminary charge of battery against a man accused of attacking a woman with a sword in an argument over a puppy.
Police officers arrested 26-year-old Ashunti Taylor after an 18-year-old woman went to Bloomington Hospital's emergency room for treatment of an 8- to 9-inch cut on her buttocks Monday night.
The woman told officers she was at Taylor's home to see the puppy, when Taylor became confrontational and began to complain about items that the puppy had chewed. Police say that when the woman threatened to leave with the puppy, Taylor struck her with the black-handled samurai-style sword.
Taylor remains in the Monroe County Jail. The puppy wasn't injured.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Sept 12, 2007 21:47:21 GMT -5
He hit her in the butt with a sword? LOL! I don't get it. Whose puppy was it?
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 12, 2007 23:03:38 GMT -5
the day guy can do airport runs all day while the night guy takes all the drunks home and they both would probably do pretty well for the day I think the night guy may do better...my drunk ass tips quite well vs. my daytime airport pickup ass.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 13, 2007 10:19:01 GMT -5
Question begs to be raised...why were they spending class time watching Star Wars in the first place???
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. Fifth-Graders Mistakenly Shown Part of Porn Movie
GLENN DALE, Md. — Some fifth-graders at Glenn Dale Elementary School in Prince George's County thought they were going to watch "Star Wars" on DVD, but instead, they got a glimpse of a pornographic movie.
County schools spokesman John White says a music teacher put the "Star Wars" DVD in a laptop Monday morning, but the projector showed a clip from an adult film. The teacher immediately ejected the DVD, but the image of two naked adults remained frozen on the screen for about 10 seconds until the projector was switched off.
A letter was sent to the parents of all fifth-graders at the school.
The teacher wasn't identified. White says the DVD appears to be a legitimate copy of "Star Wars," and the school-issued laptop was apparently tampered with.
Investigators don't believe any students were involved.
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Post by 9 on Sept 13, 2007 10:42:52 GMT -5
Because the video store was out of Return of the Jedi, silly.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 14, 2007 9:45:59 GMT -5
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. Man Trying to Sneak Into Concert Venue Impaled on Fence
YORK, Pa. — A man trying to climb a 12-foot, wrought-iron fence into a concert venue fell onto one of the inch-thick spikes, impaling his thigh, then held on while rescuers worked to cut part of the fence away.
The man drifted in and out of consciousness as firefighters used hydraulic cutters to snap three of the spikes, but he was speaking as rescuers loaded him into an ambulance about 45 minutes later, said John Kottmyer, assistant chief of York fire and rescue service.
"He had to actually try to hold himself up there," Kottmyer said.
The man underwent surgery Wednesday night and was still hospitalized Thursday, according to David Nichols, chief of the West Manchester Township Fire Department. His identity was not released; no police charges were filed.
The fence's sharp-ended spikes rise about 8 inches above a horizontal bar, and when the man fell, one spike penetrated his leg completely. Nichols said the rescuers could not have removed the man from the fence.
"Medical protocol is you don't ... remove an impalement because it may have severed an artery or nicked an artery and it could be holding back that blood," Nichols said.
The man and several friends had been headed to the Bad Boys of Rock concert featuring the bands Hinder, Papa Roach and Buckcherry, according to York Fair vice president Gene Schenck.
The man had a concert ticket, but officials said the group may have jumped the fence to avoid the fair's $5 entry fee. His friends jumped the fence safely.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 14, 2007 9:55:30 GMT -5
He couldn't decide if he wanted to sneak in at one point. Basically, he was on the fence.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 14, 2007 9:58:34 GMT -5
This is a funny one - I was in a car with Joe T, heading to a Suicidal Tendencies outdoor show (the day of the Cone perfecto, oddly enough - and we ended up turning around and never making the show for traffic concerns)
But, anyway, we are sitting in stop-dead traffic, and there is this chain blocking off this entry to a field, attached to two poles and sagging in the middle. Probably 2 feet high at that point. Well, this jerk and his friends walk up to it, and a couple hop over. This one tard goes to jump over, his foot gets caught in the train somehow, and he does a header on the grass.
One of the funniest things I had ever seen, and I was thankful for the chance.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 14, 2007 11:29:00 GMT -5
What a waste of class time. This is worse than Rachel's regular series of "pizza parties" when she was supposed to be learning stuff in class.
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > TECHNOLOGY California College Offers YouTube Class
CLAREMONT, Calif. — Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site.
About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.
Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she was "underwhelmed" by the content on YouTube but set up the course, "Learning from YouTube," to explore the role of the popular site.
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Post by 9 on Sept 15, 2007 10:14:45 GMT -5
They get CREDIT for that?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 12:35:24 GMT -5
LOL! LMAO! Serves this jackoff right! Oh, and LOL at the tagline "he's not doing much "whooping" now" GYM VICTIM IS WHEELY ANGRY 'SPIN ATTACKER' DODGES FELONYSeptember 18, 2007 -- He's not doing much "whooping" now. A Manhattan hedge-fund manager whose loud grunting and cheering during an Upper East Side spin class allegedly led a fed-up broker on the bike nearby to nearly break his neck is furious that prosecutors aren't treating the assault as a felony. "This wasn't just a playground fall where Stewy fell down and went boo hoo," angry victim Stuart Sugarman said when told that his alleged attacker was charged yesterday with a mere misdemeanor. "The reality is I spent two weeks in Lenox Hill [Hospital], including a week in ICU and six hours in surgery," Sugarman complained. "My life has been altered, possibly permanently. This is not a misdemeanor." Sugarman, 48, a fund manager and investment banker at Sunrise Financial Group, admits that he noisily war-whooped, groaned and shouted, "You go, girl!" during his last spin workout Aug. 15 at an Equinox gym on East 85th Street. That, he says, didn't give broker Christopher Carter, who was three bikes over, the right to repeatedly yell, "Shut the f- - - up!" and then leap off his Schwinn and come charging at him. The grunting Sugarman is accusing the allegedly berserk broker - both men top 200 pounds - of tilting Sugarman's stationary bike's front wheel up a yard off the floor and flipping the bike and Sugarman into a wall. Sugarman suffered a concussion from the bike's falling on top of him, along with damage to six discs in the vertebrae of his neck. His surgeon, he said, tells him he was "one click away from a wheelchair." "The guy had a spinal-cord contusion with major surgery to his neck involving the use of cadaver tissue and multiple metal plates and screws," said Sugarman's lawyer, Samuel Davis. The criminal complaint lodged yesterday against Carter, 44, of Maxim Investments Group, only accuses him of causing "sustained lower-back pain" and "substantial pain" but makes no mention of the serious physical injury needed to characterize an assault as a felony. Prosecutors declined to comment on the case. Carter's lawyer, Michael Farkas, said only that his client "did not commit any criminal acts." "Mr. Sugarman is clearly taking advantage of the criminal-justice system to build some civil lawsuit," he said. Sugarman has yet to file a suit. laura.italiano@nypost.com
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 13:18:15 GMT -5
It gets better and better! And this happened in American Idol contestant whatever-her-first-name-was DeGarmo's hometown!
FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. Georgia Man Dies After Armless Man Headbutts Him During Fight
SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Police are investigating the death of a man who collapsed after being headbutted by an armless man in a fight over a woman.
Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead said the two men, Charles Keith Teer and William Russell Redfren, scuffled Monday afternoon in the driveway of a suburban Atlanta home.
Witnesses told authorities that Redfren, who has no arms, kicked Teer, and Teer struck Redfren, Whitehead said.
After bystanders separated them, Redfren "came back and headbutted [Teer] one time," Whitehead said.
Teer complained of feeling dizzy, collapsed, and died, Whitehead said.
Police are awaiting autopsy results before deciding whether Redfren should be charged.
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Post by nyyanksagain on Sept 18, 2007 13:43:51 GMT -5
lmao tom thats a great find
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 18, 2007 14:21:14 GMT -5
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 14:39:55 GMT -5
Balls, just a heads up, that link is not working.
I have seen this story, but not the video. I saw a few funny pics regarding this too. Someone should taser Kerry while they are at it.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 18, 2007 19:54:04 GMT -5
Balls, just a heads up, that link is not working. I have seen this story, but not the video. I saw a few funny pics regarding this too. Someone should taser Kerry while they are at it. Amazing how the link didn't work, but I never described the story, yet you were able to describe the story. BUSTED.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 19:57:13 GMT -5
Hey, dickhead, the story was out last night. This is OLD NEWS.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 18, 2007 20:05:27 GMT -5
There were thousands of stories last night. Yet somehow, you managed to figure out exactly what I was talking about, without description.
THE LINK WORKED!!!! LA LA LA!!!!
BUSTED!!!!!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 20:05:30 GMT -5
Oh, and in response to your post laughing because I was able to tell what you were talking about without even viewing the link... THE TEXT IS ON THE LINK!!!! It tells us what it was, you retard! Doesnt take a genius to know what you are referencing with a link that has STUDENT ARRESTED TASERED AT KERRY EVENT on the line! Even if the link needs to nowhere. EXHIBIT A - broken link, with NAME ON IT! news.aol.com/story/ar/_fa/student-arrested-tasered-at-kerry-event/20070918063509990001
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 18, 2007 20:06:22 GMT -5
malarky! It took you 15 minutes to figure that out.
You got caught.
You got caught.
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Post by Jackass on Sept 18, 2007 20:22:50 GMT -5
Tom,
Did you put the "f" in for funny?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 18, 2007 20:25:33 GMT -5
No, it was for FUCK You, Balls.
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