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Local women outraged after cab driver insinuates one of them was too big for the back seat
660 News Calgary ^ | July 27, 2017 | Ian Campbell

Posted on 07/27/2017 11:55:06 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian

Two Calgary women say they’ll never take another Associated Cab again after an incident Friday night with a driver in the Southland area.

Mya McDonald first shared her outrage over Facebook after she wrote the man told her group that her friend “Brit” was too large to sit in the back seat.

“He told my friend to sit in the back because she was smaller and the other bigger girl should sit in the front so that we could all fit in the back because (hand movements) she’s… y’know, fatter than all of you,” McDonald wrote.

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To: NorthMountain

5 ladies - plus the driver - in a Prius?

Umm... that’s optimism.


21 posted on 07/27/2017 12:44:35 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghid6QKrhrA


22 posted on 07/27/2017 12:46:05 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: bgill
Language barrier is NO excuse for his attitude.

Agreed, but right out of gate, they're trying to fit 4 people in the back seat of a Prius! So, yeah, the fat big-boned girl goes up front. Sheesh.

The snowflakes be melting again.

23 posted on 07/27/2017 12:49:05 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: jonno

Prius has front bucket seats. That means 4 of ‘em in the back seat. That’s optimistic even if they’re all anorexic supermodels.


24 posted on 07/27/2017 12:51:16 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Obadiah

Fat bottom girls make the world go ‘round ... but not in a Prius. And attitude or no, you just can’t cram 10 lbs of ‘stuff’ in a 5 lb sack.


25 posted on 07/27/2017 12:55:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: bgill

people are rude all the time. heck, People are rude HERE all the time. it’s not against a law, yet.


26 posted on 07/27/2017 1:03:32 PM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning (and a self satisfied Pr!ck, according to WMarshal))
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Well I was going to comment on the issues at hand, but you covered it all. Well said.


27 posted on 07/27/2017 2:05:37 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Obadiah

He was just being pragmatic in a not very nice way; he could have left them at the curb.
Would they object if he were a small plane pilot needing to distribute weight? Snowflakes (well, American ones) want to live in a world where Hillary is POTUS and every girl is a supermodel. That doesn’t make it so, and thus getting slapped by reality is gonna sting.


28 posted on 07/27/2017 2:07:14 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Obadiah

I bet that’s the smoothest that bike’s ever ridden unless they bottomed out.


29 posted on 07/27/2017 2:10:14 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bgill

First off, I did not post any pictures on this thread.

As for the rest of your comment, the bottom line is that the driver was well within his rights to take only four passengers, as there are only FOUR seatbelts for passengers in a Prius. A quick check of AB law tells me that you get two demerits for having more passengers than seat belts. I doubt that there is an exception for cabs.

I suspect that his passengers were a little ‘lubricated’ after a ‘girls night out’; the biggest one chose to sit in the back. Common sense, so often lacking after the consumption of alcohol, would dictate that the biggest would ride in the front to leave room for the FOUR in the backseat.

Judging by what Ms. McDonald had to say to the interviewer, it wasn’t just how the driver said what he said, it was that they were going to sit where they wanted, PERIOD! Reality is, somewhat similar to the Captain of a ship, the driver of a vehicle has authority over his/her vehicle because he/she is RESPONSIBLE for their safety, among other things. I drive a school bus and, for the safety of my passengers, my bus, other vehicles and pedestrians that I share the road with, and myself; those kids are responsible to heed my instructions, INCLUDING where to sit! If they do not, I cannot kick anyone off, but I can park the bus and wait until they heed my instructions. There is little difference between a drunk passenger and a passenger who is a child, except their size and weight.

Given the fact that they convinced the driver to take one more passenger than he should carry, and likely being ‘lubricated’, they figured they could tell the driver what to do. The driver was in a no win situation with these women. No matter what he said, he would have been in trouble. It would be interesting to hear HIS side of the story!


30 posted on 07/27/2017 2:17:55 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: piytar

Thank you!


31 posted on 07/27/2017 2:22:10 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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Of course one of them has those skanky “bow” tattoos.....ech....


32 posted on 07/28/2017 9:53:32 AM PDT by Maverick68
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