Yeah, it's really horrible when it gets this close. I edited my post to add a photo of one of the taxis after the attack. I was talking to one of the injured drivers over his radio, while we waited for the police to arrive on the scene but I'm not sure if that's his taxi. In the photos they all looked in the same condition.
Only the week before I had monitered a driver driving himself to hospital after being bashed and robbed. He had health problems and was on blood-thinning meds, so I was really worried about him but he refused offers of an ambulance and got himself to the hospital. Once there though he couldn't get out of his car so we had to ring the front desk and get the staff to come out to him.
The public have no idea. This is going on all the time and it hardly ever reaches the newspapers. The driver last week never made the papers. It only got to the news this week because it was so many all one after the other over such a short time period.
Seriously we respond to alarms every weekend. Most thankfully are simple fare evasions (runners) or fare disputes that resolve okay when the police arrive but sometimes it's an actual attack on the driver and I rarely see the details reach the newspapers
How terrible! Here too most cabbies are immigrants and they work really hard. Heck, my grandfather (an immigrant) was a New York City cabbie back in the 40s and 50s. I hope they catch the criminals.
Cabbies are mostly immigrants in every country. You'll find they're the latest wave, back in the sixties in Melbourne they were all Italian and Greek as we had a large influx of immigrants from those countries in that decade. These days it's Indian and Arabic drivers here.
Check out the news report link at the bottom of my post, they caught them, you'll see in was teenagers, some as young as 14
That is horrible! People should be able to go about their lives without fear of being attacked. I'm very glad you are safe and I hope the drivers and their families are well.
I work every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The last two nights are usually uneventful, it's Fridays and Saturdays that have us constantly responding to alarms, but this time is was a Sunday night. It's so dangerous out there for our drivers, and yet Melbourne is a small city compared to most cities around the world. I don't know how drivers in the big cities like London and New York cope.
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Only the week before I had monitered a driver driving himself to hospital after being bashed and robbed. He had health problems and was on blood-thinning meds, so I was really worried about him but he refused offers of an ambulance and got himself to the hospital. Once there though he couldn't get out of his car so we had to ring the front desk and get the staff to come out to him.
The public have no idea. This is going on all the time and it hardly ever reaches the newspapers. The driver last week never made the papers. It only got to the news this week because it was so many all one after the other over such a short time period.
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Check out the news report link at the bottom of my post, they caught them, you'll see in was teenagers, some as young as 14
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Unbelievable at such a young age isn't it? What kind of homes/life do they have?
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I'm so sorry for your co-workers, and for you, having to live under this constant fear!
I hope nobody was seriously hurt.
Be careful!
*hugs*
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