TAYLOR-MADE HERO JAMES: I'LL REPLACE CAB-CLASH GAL'S IPOD

NY Post ^ | January 23 2009 | TOM NAMAKO

[June K.]

“Please fix the title to read “TAYLOR-MADE HERO JAMES: I’LL REPLACE CAB-CLASH GAL’S IPOD”

Thanks, MM”

MM,

Yep, I was a little nervous with getting the post up, since I had never submitted an article here before; and, wouldn’t you know... I’d mess up? I’m not surprised! :)

Thanks for catching that for me! Apparently,’administration’ fixed it.

June K.

[Enchante]

So you’re of the opinion that the woman should have been allowed to skip out on the fare?

b/c the cabbie had absolutely no other assurance of getting his money.....

fwiw, I don’t know if this is a one-time thing or a pattern for this young woman, but I once had a roommate for a year who did this sort of thing constantly because she was accustomed to sweet-talking (i.e., b.s-ing) her way past situations she created — she would have made promises to the cab driver and then never paid — she would be maxed out on her cards and our mailbox would pile up with her returned check notices (no I never looked in her mail, she would wave them around saying stuff like “damn, I did it again”). It would have been good for her and for society if she’d been stopped from trying to sweet-talk her way past all the times that she stiffed people on bills and debts.......

[June K.]

“So you’re of the opinion that the woman should have been allowed to skip out on the fare?”

Did I say that? I don’t think so.

Nonetheless, I don’t think having her personal property seized, equal to 3 times what the cab fare was, was a fair choice. Nor do I think the authorities deciding right on the spot (being judge and jury) was the right way to settle this.
Info should have been taken and if there was evidence of a crime and the cabbie wanted to press charges- then take her ‘downtown.’

Mainly, I have the problem with her personal property being taken to take care of this crime- if it was a crime- and being done as it was.

I don’t know how this should have been resolved...maybe she could have been given the chance to call someone credible to back her up in her good intentions to pay.

From the one story of this that I have read I am inclined to give the young woman the benefit of the doubt that she didn’t realize her credit card was to it’s limit, and that this wasn’t a planned and usual way with her.

As you stated about your former roommate...

“It would have been good for her and for society if she’d been stopped from trying to sweet-talk her way past all the times that she stiffed people on bills and debts.......”

You may be right there. YOU had firsthand knowledge of this.

But see? I don’t know this to be the usual way THIS young woman acts. All I have to go on is one short news story.
I prefer to lean towards it being a mistake with her credit card limits!

That’s my opinion.

June