What if your bacon is carrying wine?
Posted on 10/02/2006 3:12:49 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
Cabdriver Muhamed Mursal doesn't wear his Muslim beliefs on his sleeve, but he soon may broadcast them via a light on top of his cab.
Mursal and hundreds of other Muslim cabdrivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport refuse to take travelers they know are carrying alcohol. No one is searching bags, but a Napa Valley wine box or a see-through bag from the duty-free store can be enough to leave a fare waiting for the next cab. Airport officials estimate that happens at least three times a day.
Now, the airport and cab drivers have worked out a proposal that calls for cabdrivers who won't carry alcohol to have a cab light that's a different color. That way, the airport workers who hook up travelers with taxis can steer alcohol-carrying fares to cabs that will take them. Airport officials hope to have the lights ready by the end of the year.
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Don't they arrest people for not being PC in liberal fascist strongholds like Minneapolis?
What a great idea, now people can tell who the muslim cab drivers are and avoid them!
What if your bacon is carrying wine?
Isn't the RNC's convention being held right next door? What are the delegates gonna do if they have booze on their breath?
NO FARE FOR YOU!!!
The airport should pull their permits to operate (assuming they can do that) if they are not willing to service the clients. It is a lucrative position to operate out of an airport, if they don't want it I'm sure someone else will.
Sharia -- coming to your neighborhood soon!
From now on, I will make sure I have a bag of pork rinds in my hands whenever I go to take a cab. I don't mind waiting for a non-mooselimb cab.
Or a small pig for that matter. Some Scandinavian-American hog farmer should try to do that, and then sue if he's not allowed to do so. I'll bet that taxis carry pets all the time. A pig on a leash, ala Arnold Ziffle, would be an interesting test.
Seems to me that they need to find another line of work.
Cabs are typically rented for the shift.
Whoa! No taxi ride for you!!
No need to be so extreme. A special cell phone or laptop computer, placed under the drivers seat and left there when exiting the cab, would make the point in a less Islamic manner.
Some of the Muslim delegates at the UN don't seem to have a problem being in close proximity to Demon Rum....
Just sit in the back of the cab munching on pork rhinds and make sure your greased stained fingerprints are all over the money you give him.
Probably some of the same wonderful folks who dragged our soldiers' bodies through the streets, after (and before) mutilating them.
Next thing you know, they won't take you to a place that might be serving alcohol.
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