To: KangarooJacqui
(But look at the alternative... a Sydney westie who bashes taxi drivers? Ew.)
Oh, so you would have let the taxi-driver rob you, and meekly step aside saying "I'm not man (or woman) enough to defend my property"?
For those unfamiliar with the story, Australia's current Opposition Leader Mark Latham, once broke a taxi driver's arm in an altercation. However, what's not often referred to by cheap-shot opponents is HOW it happened.
Latham was taken by a taxi-driver on a trip which took _far_ longer, and cost _far_ more, than it should.
He refused to pay the excessive fee so the cab-driver stole his briefcase and ran.
In the ensuing chase, Latham crash-tackled the cab-driver, who sustained a broken arm.
Latham has a number of faults ... both political and personal ... but defending himself and his property should not be listed amongst them.
Sadim
(who will not, BTW, be voting for Latham - but who finds Howard's zero-tolerance drugs policy a turn-off)
6 posted on
02/01/2004 11:36:48 PM PST by
sadimgnik
To: sadimgnik
I don't like all of Howard's policies either. (See me in the Smokey Backroom for more on the WOD and "zero tolerance"... as I completely agree with you there!)
But you'd have to put a gun to my head before I'd vote Labour.
And speaking of violence, there are better ways to solve problems than the "Latham method"...
7 posted on
02/01/2004 11:41:38 PM PST by
KangarooJacqui
(3 out of 4 people ... make up 75% of the world's population)
To: sadimgnik
He refused to pay the excessive fee so the cab-driver stole his briefcase and ran. In the ensuing chase
?
Why not just take the cab as compensation? (well, take it to the nearest police station...)
9 posted on
02/01/2004 11:46:14 PM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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