Taxi Driver Kicks Out Seven-Year-Old From Taxi | Video

and if you have no car and need to transport your child.............................

...there are no buses in New York???...maybe not the grandmother...but if this was my child, I'd pick him up personally...but that's just me...I trust no-one...but there are a lot of grey areas here...and different scenarios are painfully obvious...I just would never ever trust anyone with the welfare of my child, even if I have to crawl on my hands and knees...sounds dramatic, I know, but your child is your most prized possession...nothing is too inconvenient...nothing...

i cant speak to the exact location this grandmas house is in relation to a bus stop, but i can tell you a bus ride in freeport for the weak is asking for abuse straight up.

it is common on long island for kids to utilize taxi's.from the spoiled pricks whos parents cant be bothered to bring them to ballet class, to those who cant afford cars and still need to send thier kids to places like school.

It was a taxi service, not some random cab off of the street. she thought it was safe to entrust a bonded company with her grandchild's trip home.

The kid is special needs. Do you really think a random stranger has the experience to handle a situation with the kid if he freaks out? More than likely not.

Up until recently, at least, I've known of bonded taxi companies accepting a ride, knowing that at the end of the trip, there will be someone awaiting such individuals, so that the driver can be paid. Can't speak for either 2010 or most cities' public taxi services.

its common on long island.i was a dispatcher for five years (not too far from there actualy) and it is a neccesity.and turning this kid out is bullshit.my company, and my imediate competitors would never accept such a thing.one of our drivers kicks out a kid (forget the special needs part) and they are done.period.

maybe some one whos job requires the ability to deal with the general public, the retarded included, isnt for this driver.
i am afraid of hieghts, so im not a roofer.
this guy shouldnt be unleashed on the public

So, people who work as tech support, retail, and food service should either be pro in every type of mental disability or they should all be fired?

To my mind it would matter not if it was a chauffeur driven Bentley. She did not know this guy from Adam and TRUSTED him with her Grandchild. When my Daughter was younger there very very few people I trusted her with. I certainly would have NEVER trusted her with a STRANGER in Public Transportation. Maybe I am just paranoid, but thats just me.

Bonding is great if the Cabbie steals your Laptop, but if he sodomizes your SPECIAL NEEDS child it is less helpful. I thought Southern People were trusting but even most of us would not do this.

From the comments I have been reading on here I understand it is a common practice in your neck of the woods. I just think it is fool hearty to trust your kids with STRANGERS especially when they are special needs. I will assume that is politically Correct speak for retarded.

people who work with the general public (myself included) should come prepared to do so.it isnt the general public who needs to curtail thier behavior for the worker, but the worker who needs to curtail thier persona for the public.the public from whom they are being paid.take away the monitary compensation element, and you can be an asshole all you want, shit its a right.but when you are functioning in the public as a vocation, you are paid to not be yourself.

tech support,retail,and food services employees should be expected to function in a manor that accomidates what ever they come across.in my case i spend my day being schizophrenic.im a republican in one house, a flaming liberal in the next.telling dirty jokes to the dirty old men, and placating stupid children at others.i play along with my customers who have long since lost thier minds, and those whos children never fully had them.from the autistic screamers, to the deaf speach impared grunters who for some reason really really want me to look at the picture they drew.

im an asshole, and dont really like people in general.if i can do it, anyone can.if this cab driving scumfuck couldnt suck up his greed for the few moments it would take to be a descent human being, fuck him.put him on the bread lines, as it is what he deserves.

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is a luxury.not everyone has both the option of distrust, and the means to afford it.
i highly doubt any of the kids i had to send drivers to pick up were the result of trusting parents, but the only means by wich they could get it done.hell a whole lot of them were stuck in a cycle of needing cabs to go to work, to earn the money, to buy a car.but the thing is that cycle is hard to get out from.i mean if they saved all the money they spent on cabs in a year they could buy a car, but then they couldnt have gotten to the jobs they did, that earned that money.

freeport and roosevelt are on long island, and are places that it is common to have to pay upfront.(they are places white people dont go alone)
but similarly it is also understood equaly that 7 year olds arent the ones who skip fares, wich is just the nature of the job.

a tard is a tard, fuck it.
you are stuck on this trust issue.i dont trust a lot of people, but i need thier services none the less.it isnt a matter of choice.and i asure you anyone using a cab in either freeport or roosevelt and doing so soley by choice.it is like snow blowers to new england, and sunscreen in florida.poor areas are slaves to taxis.trust has nothing to do with it.

the special needs part doesnt even equate.would it be any less horrific if some one abandons a straight a student who is 7? it is just as awefull to me.the tard part is just the bleeding heart icing on the cake in demonizing this already sorry excuse for a human being.

The parents were going to pay when he was dropped off.... or did you skip that part? I know everytime I take a taxi I pay at the end when i arrive, not shaked down in the middle of the trip.

Please quote that because I just went through the article like 5 more times and I didn't see that so, I'm really missing where it says that.

Added: Reread again. I think you missed the part about "Eyewitness News went to the owner of the cab company who said it is company policy to turn away any passenger who doesn't pay the fare upfront." Pay the fare upfront.

bad parenting is raising some one who abandons a child.and by the way both freeport and roosevelt, not really known for being good areas.they are the areas you dont go out at night.

apparently not so much policy as he took the kid for a litle bit of a ride before letting him out.he didnt put the kid out at moms house, wich is what would have happened had he been demanding payment up front.

The grandmother did essentially abandon the child. He's SEVEN, mentally challenged and, she stuck him in a taxi by himself. That's bad parenting.

you want to buy them a car? the thing is no one else wants to either, so that is the situation they are in.
from personaly knowing freeport and roosevelt, as i was raised in the town between them (merrick) of all the options possible, taxi is the safest option.

a bus ride in freeport is no place for a child, no less a special needs one.

i hope for your sake you never find yourself in the position these people are in.or maybe you need to, in order to appreciate how truly defenseless and victimized they were.

The grandmother couldn't ride with the kid? They didn't have friends? The mom couldn't take a taxi to the grandmother's and picked the kid up and rode home with him?

a trip from freeport to roosevelt cross's three towns in total.call your local cab company and see how much it costs to do that round trip.maybe the grandmother had a pressing appointment to be at, like work,or a doctors appointment.maybe she is old and weak, and such a trip is bad for her health.a zillion reasons exist as to why she wouldnt go, and they are irrelevent.

if picking the kid up alone is wrong, then the driver shouldnt have done it to begin with at all.the driver is just wrong above all other parties no matter wich way you slice it.he took the obligation of picking the kid up.he took the kid a percentage of the way.then abandoned him for lack of money when requested.not at the begining or end of the trip, but randomly in the middle.

if they had friends, they wouldnt need a taxi.statisticaly the more people ya know, the more options for a ride.if they had friends to rely upon, i dont see a taxi as the prefered choice by a mother who freaked as she did.

you really are lost at how $$$$ plays in to this huh.
try paying for a taxi for a month as your only means of transport, and see what the bill is like.then ask if you would turn trips into round trips, with an additional person charge.then ask if some one who may be chosing between feeding her kids or not would do it?millions of kids get picked up and dropped off by taxis everyday.millions of them re handicapped as well, as the handicaped make up a sizeable number of taxi clientel.less than people commuting to work or trains, but more than hookers and drunks.

I never once said the driver wasn't in the wrong. My point is the mother/grandmother are in the wrong, also. The driver was wrong for throwing the kid out, granted. The only reason I bring up anything or comment on this is to show the mother and grandmother are wrong, as well. We can't put the blame totally on the driver.

If the mother or grandmother couldn't afford feeding their children versus a round trip taxi ride, then they need to get their priorities straight. If for whatever reason they couldn't make a trip with this kid, then they should've made the visit for another day.

The Cab driver was as wrong as two left shoes. You do not put a 7 year old kid out on the street for ANYTHING. I mean if the cabbie thought it was a scam he could have taken him to the Police Station.

Sorry, I meant "wasn't". Post corrected.

"I never once said the driver wasn't in the wrong."

if i remember correctly at some point you labeled me a neocon, or something to that effect.but here you are doing thier schtick.you are making judgements with little or now information.
the mother and the grandmother could very well be world class fucktards, who should have never been able to breed.but nothing in the story, as it was told indicated anything about why they used the cab, what thier financial situation is,why the kid needed to be transported, or really anything aside from what the driver did.

you are completely ok making judgements about things that no information either way is available to evaluate.if that isnt trademark republican behavior (tea party personification) i dont know what is.

the mother and the grand mother may be very much so in the wrong, but im not going to even touch that with the complete absence of information about them, other than they were in need of a taxi.

personaly though, aside from catious judgement, i dont care about who was wronger (hurts to even read that huh) when a child was abandoned.that exceeds anything else.lets say i go to a customers house and the parents are nowhere to be found, and the kids are living like lord of the flies.sure the parents are guilty of neglect, but far worse would be me walking away like i didnt see it.far worse would be me having opportunity to help these kids, and choosing to turn my back on thier well being.i dont care if the kid was barking like a dog the whole ride, had no money, and was bouncing up and down on the seat, you just dont ignore the fact that they are defenseless children.mom and grandma may have been wrong on many levels, but nothing that compares even remotely to a member of society throwing a 7 year old to the wolves.

its like the "she was asking for it" rape defense.it really doesnt matter if she was dressed like a whore, the greater error is the rape.putting a kid in a taxi without money isnt the best idea in the world, but doesnt even come close to abandoning a child.

i said i think you called me neocon, i could be wrong.you sure are defensive and willing to put a lot of work into this.
so we agree to disagree.

im a tech tard, so it would have been a lot of work for me lol
i try not to be a dick, cuz then my points are dismissed.
let me guess does your nemisis start with an a and end in s?

Ah, no. We'll just say it's not one of the big 5 trolls.