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Taxi Driver claims I put dent in his car

  • 01-05-2013 11:26am
    #1
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads,
    Have an issue. Last week me and my friends got a taxi, anyway being a bit drunk I was being a bit annoying(speaking spanish in the car, a bit annoying but hardly the worst thing he'll encounter) Anyway the taxi driver went bloody insane, he was like 'SHUT UPPPPPPPP' and pulled over first, when we all got out he said 'ok get back' in but what followed was him basically threatening me, I honestly thought he was gonna punch me or something, this continued for about 2 minutes when I said 'listen, im a customer, dont speak down to me like that, then my other friend who initially was annoyed with me was like 'he's dead right and opened and got out ot the car' then i made an off the remark comment about 'this is the sort of mentality why i hate ireland'(hardly that big of a deal) and he responds with 'then get fucccccccccking out then' and i replied 'your a scumbag man' to which he replied 'im gonna ****ing get you' i sort of ran away from the car, i heard nothing until last night a lad i know told me he was calling around a dent I apparently put in his car. I know for a fact, 1 million per cent I didn't.


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  • #2
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Hi lads,
    Have an issue. Last week me and my friends got a taxi, anyway being a bit drunk I was being a bit annoying(speaking spanish in the car, a bit annoying but hardly the worst thing he'll encounter) Anyway the taxi driver went bloody insane, he was like 'SHUT UPPPPPPPP' and pulled over first, when we all got out he said 'ok get back' in but what followed was him basically threatening me, I honestly thought he was gonna punch me or something, this continued for about 2 minutes when I said 'listen, im a customer, dont speak down to me like that, then my other friend who initially was annoyed with me was like 'he's dead right and opened and got out ot the car' then i made an off the remark comment about 'this is the sort of mentality why i hate ireland'(hardly that big of a deal) and he responds with 'then get fucccccccccking out then' and i replied 'your a scumbag man' to which he replied 'im gonna ****ing get you' i sort of ran away from the car, i heard nothing until last night a lad i know told me he was calling around a dent I apparently put in his car. I know for a fact, 1 million per cent I didn't.
    You should contact the regulator and make a complaint against the driver for his bad language and threatening and abusive behaviour, then I would suggest calling in to your local Gardai station and making a complaint and statement there to have it on record in case the driver comes knocking on your door.

    This is of course assuming that you got the taxi driver's/car details or a receipt and also that your friend is not just having some fun at your expense.


  • #3
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    You should contact the regulator and make a complaint against the driver for his bad language and threatening and abusive behaviour, then I would suggest calling in to your local Gardai station and making a complaint and statement there to have it on record in case the driver comes knocking on your door.

    This is of course assuming that you got the taxi driver's/car details or a receipt and also that your friend is not just having some fun at your expense.

    And assuming that OP will stand up to his claim that the provocation was purely innocent!


  • #4
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    intellectual dosser wrote: »
    And assuming that OP will stand up to his claim that the provocation was purely innocent!

    Oh come come now,Intellectual Dosser,don't you know that there's only EVER one side to these stories.....;)

    Foggy knows this,which is why I tend to enquire as to the meaning of terms such as....."a bit" in the context of the OP.
    Have an issue. Last week me and my friends got a taxi, anyway being a bit drunk I was being a bit annoying(speaking spanish in the car, a bit annoying but hardly the worst thing he'll encounter) Anyway the taxi driver went bloody insane, he was like 'SHUT UPPPPPPPP' and pulled over first, when we all got out he said 'ok get back' in but what followed was him basically threatening me, I honestly thought he was gonna punch me or something, this continued for about 2 minutes when I said 'listen, im a customer, dont speak down to me like that, then my other friend who initially was annoyed with me was like 'he's dead right and opened and got out ot the car' then i made an off the remark comment about 'this is the sort of mentality why i hate ireland'(hardly that big of a deal) and he responds with 'then get fucccccccccking out then' and i replied 'your a scumbag man' to which he replied 'im gonna ****ing get you' i sort of ran away from the car, i heard nothing until last night a lad i know told me he was calling around a dent I apparently put in his car. I know for a fact, 1 million per cent I didn't.

    I'm presuming also that the 1 Million per-cent refers to sober,next-day per-cents and not "a bit drunk" per-cents,which tend to be the National Standard in matters financial it appears.....:rolleyes:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #5
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Yes but all i was doing was speaking Spanish, it wasn't the taxi drivers concern. My friends were annoyed by me speaking Spanish, it was bad banter but I've got into other taxis and i've had taxi drivers love enjoy having the banter with the Spanish(although was talking to my friends not him). This guy was totally ignorant and rude, didn't acknowledge us from the start and there was a taxi right next to him who stopped and seen everything. I quote 'that was disgraceful' thetaxi driver said in reference to the other drivers behavior. If we had acted bad the other driver would not have stopped for us and the following taxi driver there were no problems what so ever.


  • #6
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,105 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    yes but all i was doing was speaking spanish, it wasn't the taxi drivers concern.

    Shouting in ones ear being obnoxious id imagine....


    You may have thought it was hilarious at the time.

    i counter with

    It most likely was not hilarious to a sober person trying to drive you safely to your destination.


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  • #7
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    listermint wrote: »
    Shouting in ones ear being obnoxious id imagine....


    You may have thought it was hilarious at the time.

    i counter with

    It most likely was not hilarious to a sober person trying to drive you safely to your destination.

    I would agree, however don't try to make it seem worse than it was. Slightly annoying but his reaction was completely OTT, I'm the most cordial person to taxi drivers and the likes. It was a few lads on a night out, of course gonna be giddy, slightly annoying. It comes with the territory, I was not mean or rude or derogatory until the comment at the end in reply to his 'get out of the country' then comment.

    And also the issue is that I did not under any circumstance put a dent in his car! Under any circumstances...ANY! I was kinda scared, so when I got out, I heard him open car door so I kinda skipped away from the car, no time to give the car a boot let alone enough force to cause damage.


  • #8
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,105 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    I would agree, however don't try to make it seem worse than it was. Slightly annoying but his reaction was completely OTT, I'm the most cordial person to taxi drivers and the likes. It was a few lads on a night out, of course gonna be giddy, slightly annoying. It comes with the territory, I was not mean or rude or derogatory until the comment at the end in reply to his 'get out of the country' then comment.

    Well tbh, I tend to tell my mates to shut up when they act like that in someone elses car driving to or from town.

    So no i have to disagree. And im not trying to make anything out of anything.

    You were being loud and obnoxious in someones ear. Thats all there is to it. nothing more nor less.


  • #9
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    The issue not being kicked out(we got out of the car of our own accord), its the dent in this guys car that he claims we caused, and the fact a driver threatened his customer. Only in the taxi industry would this be acceptable. The dent is all too convenient for a guy who said 'I'll get u ya prick'


  • #10
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    OP, to be quite honest but very little of your story adds up here; there are a heap of gaps and missing facts here.

    The only things clear are that you acted like a twat, you were very rude to the driver, he was rude to you and that you made a show of your mates. I also can't get why you, having had an unpleasant trip and got out with your mates, then got back into the taxi willingly. It's also interesting to know that the driver was willing and able to track you and your friends down; clearly something else has happened here that you have left out of this tale.

    Regardless of who did or said what, you'd want to get your facts straight and maybe swallow some humble pie or else this could get rather messy at your end should he take it further.


  • #11
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Tell me what facts are missing so I can piece them together? He was able to track me down because he's friends with one of the people that I know dad.

    1.Get into Taxi
    2.I got into the car and basically I was just saying 'vamos' then I said to the taxi driver 'hablas espanol, no?' 'ahhh senooor' then the lads were just like stop u clown and I was like ahh 'por que, no puedo hablar espanol si quiero?' That was it, i swear to god, it wasn't that obnoxious just a bit annoying but not deserving of the reaction I swear to god. He kicked us out first after about 1 minute. Barely outside the estate, not sure why we got back in.
    2.I got back into the car and I was like 'Maaan its only a bit of fun, no need to be such an asshole about it, what would you do if there were loud Spaniards having fun in taxi, would you kick them out? He went on a big rant about 'Youuur in Ireland, and not Spanish', really angry tone, then I replied 'I'm Americaaan' For some reason he got so annoyed by that, and seemed like he wanted to punch me. After he threatened me, me and my other friend were like 'Pull over, had enough of this, that's out of order, we want to go get out' 2 of my other 'friends' stayed and went the rest of way.

    Its mad that when you're accused of something that people will actually make up a scenario where you are guilty. I swear I got out of the car and skipped away, negating any possibility of me kicking his car because I thought he was gonna punch me honestly. I was ready to run. No interest in getting into a fight with a guy 3 times my age.

    We had the same guy as taxi driver like 2 weeks ago, with no problems. He must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm not an asshole drunk, I'm just a giddy drunk so kicking cars etc. is not in my character. But also I hadn't even drunk a lot, I had 4 bottes before for drinking because not a big drinker. I just pretend on a night out I'm Spanish as a (inside) joke, nothing sinister. This guy from the moment we got in was ignorant. He escalated the situation and I don't care. I'm here to look for backup because my conscious is clear not pandering to authority 'sit in the car and say nothing with fingers on lips' stupid responses. I didn't do anything to the car for a fact, if speaking Spanish is so annoying and obnoxious then fair enough but that's not the issue. He is fabricating that I damaged his car door which couldn't be further from the truth. Maybe I need to look up 'wikihow' articles on 'How to prove your innocent when your being accused of something you didn't do'


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  • #12
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    @EdenHazard

    The bottom line is you were acting the idiot,you by your own admission were DRUNK and even your own friends told you to calm down.

    So clearly you were in the wrong ,no ifs or buts .

    The driver was well within his rights to throw you out .Thank yourself lucky that he was relatively decent and restrained .

    I'm sure if you came across another he may well have given you a well deserved dig.

    You misbehaved ,YOU were in the wrong ,Learn your lesson don't drink so much ,listen to your friends in future and behave yourself in a taxi .

    Just so you know the rules state:

    "The customer’s responsibilities"

    Behaviour
    Customers’ behaviour should be civil and orderly".....you were far from being "civil or orderly".


  • #13
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Tell me what facts are missing so I can piece them together? He was able to track me down because he's friends with one of the people that I know dad.

    1.Get into Taxi
    2.I got into the car and basically I was just saying 'vamos' then I said to the taxi driver 'hablas espanol, no?' 'ahhh senooor' then the lads were just like stop u clown and I was like ahh 'por que, no puedo hablar espanol si quiero?' That was it, i swear to god, it wasn't that obnoxious just a bit annoying but not deserving of the reaction I swear to god. He kicked us out first after about 1 minute. Barely outside the estate, not sure why we got back in.
    2.I got back into the car and I was like 'Maaan its only a bit of fun, no need to be such an asshole about it, what would you do if there were loud Spaniards having fun in taxi, would you kick them out? He went on a big rant about 'Youuur in Ireland, and not Spanish', really angry tone, then I replied 'I'm Americaaan' For some reason he got so annoyed by that, and seemed like he wanted to punch me. After he threatened me, me and my other friend were like 'Pull over, had enough of this, that's out of order, we want to go get out' 2 of my other 'friends' stayed and went the rest of way.

    Its mad that when you're accused of something that people will actually make up a scenario where you are guilty. I swear I got out of the car and skipped away, negating any possibility of me kicking his car because I thought he was gonna punch me honestly. I was ready to run. No interest in getting into a fight with a guy 3 times my age.

    We had the same guy as taxi driver like 2 weeks ago, with no problems. He must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm not an asshole drunk, I'm just a giddy drunk so kicking cars etc. is not in my character. But also I hadn't even drunk a lot, I had 4 bottes before for drinking because not a big drinker. I just pretend on a night out I'm Spanish as a (inside) joke, nothing sinister. This guy from the moment we got in was ignorant. He escalated the situation and I don't care. I'm here to look for backup because my conscious is clear not pandering to authority 'sit in the car and say nothing with fingers on lips' stupid responses. I didn't do anything to the car for a fact, if speaking Spanish is so annoying and obnoxious then fair enough but that's not the issue. He is fabricating that I damaged his car door which couldn't be further from the truth. Maybe I need to look up 'wikihow' articles on 'How to prove your innocent when your being accused of something you didn't do'

    YOU were drunk and being obnoxious ,,,even your friends said so .
    Stop trying to blame a sober taxi driver doing his job and take responsibility for your drunken behaviour and rudeness.
    Even your comments on here says a lot about you (presumably you are sober today ) ,you quite clearly have a attitude problem ,given that you said
    "not pandering to authority 'sit in the car and say nothing with fingers on lips' stupid responses.


  • #14
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    oisindoyle wrote: »
    @EdenHazard

    The bottom line is you were acting the idiot,you by your own admission were DRUNK and even your own friends told you to calm down.

    So clearly you were in the wrong ,no ifs or buts .

    The driver was well within his rights to throw you out .Thank yourself lucky that he was relatively decent and restrained .

    I'm sure if you came across another he may well have given you a well deserved dig.

    You misbehaved ,YOU were in the wrong ,Learn your lesson don't drink so much ,listen to your friends in future and behave yourself in a taxi .

    Just so you know the rules state:

    "The customer’s responsibilities"

    Behaviour
    Customers’ behaviour should be civil and orderly".....you were far from being "civil or orderly".

    I'm just wondering, but is this accepted as a reasonable response to a noisy customer, within the taxi profession?


  • #15
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    They didn't say calm down they hate me speaking Spanish and get annoyed when I do but their annoyance is not his concern. If I want to speak Spanish in a taxi that is my prerogative. He threatned to get me 'sooner or later' nacker language which showed his character.
    The lad I know who doesn't even like me(not because im some asshole who annoys people, because he thinks im full of myself and 'gay'), even said to the taxi driver when talking to him that he's not the type to kick a car door in fairness.


  • #16
    aman23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 82 ✭✭aman23


    If you hate Ireland so much, why don't you leave?


  • #17
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    It sounds like Eden was acting like a plonker, that much is clear. However, it also sounds like something that a normal, good natured taxi driver would take in his stride as it was silly and not dangerous.

    The issue here is that Eden did not damage the car, but the taxi man claims he did. Eden, make a report to the guards about how you've heard that this is what the taxi man is saying and then if he does go to the guards with a complaint then it's just a bit safer for you. However, I'd be very surprised if he did go to the guards.

    And if someone asks about you and the incident with the taxi just say something calm and simple, and make it clear that you never kicked it, regardless of what the person might have heard.


  • #18
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    oisindoyle wrote: »
    YOU were drunk and being obnoxious ,,,even your friends said so .
    Stop trying to blame a sober taxi driver doing his job and take responsibility for your drunken behaviour and rudeness.
    Even your comments on here says a lot about you (presumably you are sober today ) ,you quite clearly have a attitude problem ,given that you said
    "not pandering to authority 'sit in the car and say nothing with fingers on lips' stupid responses.

    Ignoring you. You have no idea about the dynamics of that car and how it transpired, I'm not here to figure out whether I was in the right or wrong. I was out on a night out and acting a bit dumb but otherwise in great spirits and NOT RUDE like he was to me. I didn't threaten to get him sooner or later, imagine this being seen as acceptable? :rolleyes:


  • #19
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Jogathon wrote: »
    It sounds like Eden was acting like a plonker, that much is clear. However, it also sounds like something that a normal, good natured taxi driver would take in his stride as it was silly and not dangerous.

    The issue here is that Eden did not damage the car, but the taxi man claims he did. Eden, make a report to the guards about how you've heard that this is what the taxi man is saying and then if he does go to the guards with a complaint then it's just a bit safer for you. However, I'd be very surprised if he did go to the guards.

    And if someone asks about you and the incident with the taxi just say something calm and simple, and make it clear that you never kicked it, regardless of what the person might have heard.

    That's a fair reflection. Me stupid but all he had to do was laugh it off because honestly I was just tryna have fun(altho on my terms sure) with him. If it had been 3 hot 18 year old girls I doubt he would have cared.
    To have heard the tone and manner he was talking to me in you would not believe it. I should be the one contacting the guards about his behaviour and threatening me


  • #20
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    I'm interested to find out the bit as to how he reckoned you damaged his car door and why your friend/s felt honour bound to pass on your details to him. I'm also interested to see that you now say you were kicked out by him yet you were then let back into the cab. Once back in you then call him an "asshole" and decide that having been rude to him yet again you then decide that it's humourous to say you are American (Maybe you are in which case fair enough). Out you get a second time only for him to order you back in; three times in the cab in one trip of which twice you say you felt/were threatened by him.

    Personally speaking, I think you are still leaving out a few chapters of this tale, and chapters that may reveal the real story here. While I know that Oisin doesn't condone anybody being given a few slaps you can see what he means in saying that a few people wouldn't be as patient given the situation.
    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Tell me what facts are missing so I can piece them together? He was able to track me down because he's friends with one of the people that I know dad.

    1.Get into Taxi
    2.I got into the car and basically I was just saying 'vamos' then I said to the taxi driver 'hablas espanol, no?' 'ahhh senooor' then the lads were just like stop u clown and I was like ahh 'por que, no puedo hablar espanol si quiero?' That was it, i swear to god, it wasn't that obnoxious just a bit annoying but not deserving of the reaction I swear to god. He kicked us out first after about 1 minute. Barely outside the estate, not sure why we got back in.
    2.I got back into the car and I was like 'Maaan its only a bit of fun, no need to be such an asshole about it, what would you do if there were loud Spaniards having fun in taxi, would you kick them out? He went on a big rant about 'Youuur in Ireland, and not Spanish', really angry tone, then I replied 'I'm Americaaan' For some reason he got so annoyed by that, and seemed like he wanted to punch me. After he threatened me, me and my other friend were like 'Pull over, had enough of this, that's out of order, we want to go get out' 2 of my other 'friends' stayed and went the rest of way.

    Its mad that when you're accused of something that people will actually make up a scenario where you are guilty. I swear I got out of the car and skipped away, negating any possibility of me kicking his car because I thought he was gonna punch me honestly. I was ready to run. No interest in getting into a fight with a guy 3 times my age.

    We had the same guy as taxi driver like 2 weeks ago, with no problems. He must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm not an asshole drunk, I'm just a giddy drunk so kicking cars etc. is not in my character. But also I hadn't even drunk a lot, I had 4 bottes before for drinking because not a big drinker. I just pretend on a night out I'm Spanish as a (inside) joke, nothing sinister. This guy from the moment we got in was ignorant. He escalated the situation and I don't care. I'm here to look for backup because my conscious is clear not pandering to authority 'sit in the car and say nothing with fingers on lips' stupid responses. I didn't do anything to the car for a fact, if speaking Spanish is so annoying and obnoxious then fair enough but that's not the issue. He is fabricating that I damaged his car door which couldn't be further from the truth. Maybe I need to look up 'wikihow' articles on 'How to prove your innocent when your being accused of something you didn't do'


  • #21
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    2.I got back into the car and I was like 'Maaan its only a bit of fun, no need to be such an asshole about it...'[/QUOTE]

    That's the best line in this interesting saga of civilian versus taxi driver thread.
    I'm really looking forward to new updates on what happens next,will the taxi driver finally catch up with the OP? Will it all end in tears?


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  • #22
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    nummnutts wrote: »
    I'm just wondering, but is this accepted as a reasonable response to a noisy customer, within the taxi profession?

    Drivers put up with a lot of rude drunken obnoxious people.One can be grateful that the incidence of drivers giving one of the above a dig is quite rare .
    Having said that,passengers MUST behave in a civil manner ,the OP wasn't .


  • #23
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    I'm American!!!!!!!!!! I didn't call him an asshole straight away. He start laying into me about how 'were in ireland' and i said 'what if it was spaniards in the car?' Would you throw a strop, then I said this is why I hate Ireland(in jest sort of but irrelevant) and he goes 'well get ****innng out then' to which I reply 'quit being an asshole, your taking it far too serious' nope your making stuff up, he kicked us out first then we got in again, then after going on a tirade against me i said 'enough im not taking this, and we said pull over, we're getting out' and that was the end of it.

    my friend just said to me there(who stayed in the car) i was sober, only had both 4 bottles before leaving.


  • #24
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    oisindoyle wrote: »
    Drivers put up with a lot of rude drunken obnoxious people.One can be grateful that the incidence of drivers giving one of the above a dig is quite rare .
    Having said that,passengers MUST behave in a civil manner ,the OP wasn't .

    If speaking Spanish in jest is grounds for taxi drivers handing out digs to their customers than Jesus F'ing Christ!


  • #25
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Ignoring you. You have no idea about the dynamics of that car and how it transpired, I'm not here to figure out whether I was in the right or wrong. I was out on a night out and acting a bit dumb but otherwise in great spirits and NOT RUDE like he was to me. I didn't threaten to get him sooner or later, imagine this being seen as acceptable? :rolleyes:

    Well from what you told us so far ,YOU were drunk ,YOU called the driver an asshole YOU were told by YOUR friends to behave yourself and yet it's the taxi drivers fault ????
    If you think the above is not being rude ,well ..............


  • #26
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Listen!!!! He told me to get out of the country basically, I think I was within my right to call him an asshole!!!!! Seriously stop being so ignorant. I honestly think you're trolling.


  • #27
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    If speaking Spanish in jest is grounds for taxi drivers handing out digs to their customers than Jesus F'ing Christ!

    You're quite obviously leaving out the real issue ,YOU were DRUNK ,RUDE ,LOUD, and your friends told you to calm down .
    Many a driver has Spanish speaking people in their car day in day out ,but they dont behave like YOU


  • #28
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    No no no I was not loud or rude, annoying. If the guy had spoke Spanish we would have had got on great, or even been like pigeon Spanish so I wasn't been rude. Its his perspective, he was just annoyed by me speaking Spanish for some reason. I was just speaking enthusiastically in Spanish, it wasn't to annoy him.

    My friends told me to stop speaking Spanish, not to calm down or be quiet. They just hate that I think I'm Spanish :P it is our issue, don't know how taxi driver was bothered. I'm not a loud person at all. Stop trying to fabricate what you don't know. Unless the taxi driver is here all you have to go by is my word, not manifest stories to suit your agenda.


  • #29
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    oisindoyle wrote: »
    Drivers put up with a lot of rude drunken obnoxious people.One can be grateful that the incidence of drivers giving one of the above a dig is quite rare .
    Having said that,passengers MUST behave in a civil manner ,the OP wasn't .

    I accept that drivers put up with a lot of rude and obnoxious people. I'm not doubting that.

    But to say that one should be "grateful" that incidences of "receiving a dig" are quite rare, is a nonsense. One should expect it to be rare.


  • #30
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    I'm American!!!!!!!!!! I didn't call him an asshole straight away. He start laying into me about how 'were in ireland' and i said 'what if it was spaniards in the car?' Would you throw a strop, then I said this is why I hate Ireland(in jest sort of but irrelevant) and he goes 'well get ****innng out then' to which I reply 'quit being an asshole, your taking it far too serious' nope your making stuff up, he kicked us out first then we got in again, then after going on a tirade against me i said 'enough im not taking this, and we said pull over, we're getting out' and that was the end of it.

    I'm going by what you said in your posts, which is hard to follow considering that your story isn't in one piece and elements are still being added to it, post by post.
    EdenHazard wrote: »
    my friend just said to me there(who stayed in the car) i was sober, only had both 4 bottles before leaving.

    4 bottles at the start and you were a little drunk 20 posts later and you sober up ;)


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  • #31
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Just saying what my friend said. I wasn't a drunken mess who was ready to fight anything in front of me which is what you are trying to portray and the poor taxi driver was at the end of my drunk and disorderly outburst. My friends get annoyed by me thinking I'm Spanish but the taxi driver was not aware of this so I don't know why he got so emotive about it? I wasn't being obnoxious to him, I was just being a plonker who thinks he's Spanish but hardly that serious.


  • #32
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Just saying what my friend said. I wasn't a drunken mess who was ready to fight anything in front of me which is what you are trying to portray and the poor taxi driver was at the end of my drunk and disorderly outburst. My friends get annoyed by me thinking I'm Spanish but the taxi driver was not aware of this so I don't know why he got so emotive about it? I wasn't being obnoxious to him, I was just being a plonker who thinks he's Spanish but hardly that serious.

    :rolleyes:


  • #33
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    BTW you dont have to kick a car to put a dent in it, forcing a door beyond it's design limits will also result in damage. Not saying that's what you did, because to be honest I have my doubts about a taxi driver allowing you back in twice let alone three times! So have my doubts about the ENTIRE story


  • #34
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    What does this even mean ffs!


  • #35
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    BTW you dont have to kick a car to put a dent in it, forcing a door beyond it's design limits will also result in damage. Not saying that's what you did, because to be honest I have my doubts about a taxi driver allowing you back in twice let alone three times! So have my doubts about the ENTIRE story

    No we only were allowed back in once, when he first kicked us out, the second time got out on my terms. He was content to bully me for the duration of the trip and get his fare. I wasn't standing for it, and asked to be let out. Not sure why I'd make it up. Honestly, you had to be in the taxi, normally when on a night out I'll be like 'Hola, Que tal' and the driver will have a laugh. I wasn't doing it out of malice.
    Honestly. I'd say if it was, because at end of day he can't do anything about an asshole customer except for blacklist or refuse a fare in future(which is certainly no issue with me). The issue is not whether he was right to kick us out, if I should report him(I have a lot of independent sources who think I should report him for his behavior and the language that he used against me(I will say this to him if he calls) but that he has accused me of damaging his door which I know I did not do.
    I just want advice based on the premise that I'm being completely honest and the driver escalated the situation. It was stupid to get back into the taxi again after initially telling us to get out, but unsure why he then allowed us back in but yet made no effort to calm the situation and immediately launched into a personal attack against me. My Spanish was in good nature, it only be annoying for the fact he couldn't understand me and maybe thought I was Spanish and was making fun of him, hence he felt uneasy.


  • #36
    Mr Teeny
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Mr Teeny


    I doubt it was the Spanish he had an issue with, more the fact that he had a drunken young lad taking the piss in his car. By your own admission you were out of order and even your friends were annoyed by you.

    My advice is to chalk it down to experience. Drink less in future if you can’t be civilised to a man doing his job. He is not there to entertain you, he is not there to laugh at your hilarious Spanish banter, he is there to get you from A to B safely.


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  • #37
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    I think you're going to have to put it down to six of one, half a dozen of the other.

    The taxi driver is human, he's not going to tolerate people acting the maggot even if his obligations say he should have some threshold. Any mornings I wake up having had a bad experience with a taxi driver I usually blame myself, even if I feel the driver could have dealt with things a bit better.

    You and your friends together should be able to stave off his claims about the dent, it might be hassle to deal with him but I wouldn't lose sleep over it. If he does pursue it he wont be coming out of it looking good - total waste of time.


  • #38
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Taking the piss? No I'm not buying that. Speak in Spanish is just something I do. My sister says he always does it with French on a night out and never any problem. However I'll admit as soon as I seen sign that this guy wasn't the type of taxi driver for a bit of banter, I should have cut it out. After that moment, I was being a plonker(although it was more to annoy my friends who were telling me stop(the issue for them me thinking i'm spanish as opposed to how i acted towards the driver in the car) My intentions weren't to be spite him or to wind him up that's for certain. I just like speaking Spanish ha


  • #39
    Mr Teeny
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Mr Teeny


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Taking the piss? No I'm not buying that.

    In fairness now :) ...
    "a bit drunk I was being a bit annoying"

    I've driven a car with a few tipsy heads in the back seat acting the fool... not a fun thing when you're stone cold sober and trying to concentrate on the road (and that's with people I know). A taxi driver after a long hard day... you get the picture.
    "I was just tryna have fun(altho on my terms sure)"

    There's your problem. Your terms and drink don't work very well together! :)

    You call him and asshole and scumbag, of course he'll react as he did. He's only human :)

    You know who this guy is through friends right? Why not get in touch, apologise for acting the maggot in the car, chalk it down to experience and move on.


  • #40
    johnty56
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭johnty56


    I disagree that he should contact the driver. Forget about it. Have nothing to do with the guy. OP probably was drunk and annoying, but driver sounds like a real arsehole. Storm in a teacup that will blow over.


  • #41
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    I swear I got out of the car and skipped away, negating any possibility of me kicking his car
    Looks like you have a bit of form when it comes to using taxis.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439111&postcount=1
    EdenHazard wrote:
    what do you think would happen? taxi thread made me think of this. ive been chased a few times but never been caught, but ive wondered just what the **** would happen if i was. cant imagine they'd go easy, suppose thats the adrenaline rush
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439290&postcount=9
    EdenHazard wrote:
    closest i came was i did a legger in my estate down long stretch of road, anyway your man tears after me in a car, so im like ****, hide under a hedge your man gets out and is literally just standing above me but never looks down for what reason i dunno, big black lad as well he'd have eat me for breakfast
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439437&postcount=18
    EdenHazard wrote:
    i always take my battery out just before i get in a taxi and always bring out a bad phone, the scummiest thing i did was probably take the 14 quid two girls we got taxi home with had given and done a legger with that...its a nackery thing to do but its a matter of percentages....

    I'll side with the taxi driver on this occasion, if that's all right with you.


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  • #42
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Just forget about it. He was a dick but its not worth the hassle. If he comes hassling you ask for his details and get his licence revoked and reported to the gardai. Otherwise forget about it.


  • #43
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Looks like you have a bit of form when it comes to using taxis.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439111&postcount=1
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439290&postcount=9http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439437&postcount=18

    I'll side with the taxi driver on this occasion, if that's all right with you.

    Bad bad crack from me(weird u looked this all up tho).Exaggeration, but did it once. Bad out. Someones living and I was a nacker to do that. I hold my hands up. Actually feel bad(and I should) thinking about it. Young and foolish.


  • #44
    steph1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭steph1


    I think you should quit now :)


  • #45
    oisindoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭oisindoyle


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Bad bad crack from me(weird u looked this all up tho).Exaggeration, but did it once. Bad out. Someones living and I was a nacker to do that. I hold my hands up. Actually feel bad(and I should) thinking about it. Young and foolish.


    As Steph and others have said ,you should quit now .
    The posts/threads showing your past are quite revealing and shows what kind of person you really are .


  • #46
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    don't even bother OP, Gardai are alot more likely to side with the taxi driver over someone who has admitted being drunk at the time.


  • #47
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Looks like you have a bit of form when it comes to using taxis.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439111&postcount=1
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439290&postcount=9http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=75439437&postcount=18

    I'll side with the taxi driver on this occasion, if that's all right with you.

    Game over, would appear you make a habit of being a scumbag in your search for a bit of craic!


  • #48
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    If speaking Spanish in jest is grounds for taxi drivers handing out digs to their customers than Jesus F'ing Christ!

    It sounds like it wasnt the Spanish language that he had an issue with but the way that you were doing it just to wind him up. You were being disrespectful for cheap laughs with your mates at the taxi driver's expense. You may have been that one idiot too many that he had to put up with that night and just had enough.


  • #49
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Listen!!!! He told me to get out of the country basically, I think I was within my right to call him an asshole!!!!! Seriously stop being so ignorant. I honestly think you're trolling.

    Now this has me thinking that all this may be a bit of a spoof.


  • #50
    Giblet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,986 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Bad bad crack from me(weird u looked this all up tho).Exaggeration, but did it once. Bad out. Someones living and I was a nacker to do that. I hold my hands up. Actually feel bad(and I should) thinking about it. Young and foolish.

    Snared!


  • #51
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,491 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Please don't feed the troll.

    Thread closed.

    Moderator


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