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  • Malaysia's rude cabbies 'should be shot' (BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MALAYSIAN TOURIST BUREAU)

    08/27/2002 5:22:15 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 2 replies · 190+ views
    BBC News ^ | August 27, 2002 | BBC News
    Malaysia's tourism minister has suggested that taxi drivers who are rude to tourists should be "lined up against the wall and shot". Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said cabbies who took advantage of the country's visitors were the "new enemies... the same as Communists". "I am not joking, This is a serious matter. If they can be shot, all the better," he was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Berita Harian newspaper. The minister was commenting on a report that about 70% of taxi drivers in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, would cheat tourists by using different meters or driving on long...