[Newsbot]

Title: Cabbie's dashboard items spark human rights battle
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2009-09-23 08:49:23
Canadian

[Benn]

Only way I can see the Taxi Commissiojn getting away with this is citing safety reasons. Even small items not bolted down can be dnagerous projectiles in an accident.

[leewgrant]

$1:

Like many cab drivers, Perecowicz spends a lot of time in his cab and keeps pictures of his family with him. The photos of his wife, daughter and son are well-secured on the dashboard and he says they are not a hazard to passengers since there is no way they could become loose.

Also on the dash are small Canadian and Israeli flags and a Remembrance Day poppy. Along with a photo of the founder of Chabad Lubavitch, a Hasidic Jewish movement, he also has two mezuzahs affixed to the car frame between the front and back doors.

This is Montreal so many drivers will have Catholic icons of one sort or another in their cabs - like on the dash board.

Don't see anything that would concern me.

A Jewish guy with a poppy in his car. I can see this getting blown all out of shape.

[stemmer]

I was in a cab in Halifax earlier in the summer. The driver had a plastic figurine of a Leafs hockey player. Maybe I should register a complaint as nothing offends me more then the Make Me Laughs ... Maybe the bloke will have to pay an hefty fine for his offense... ...

I reconsidered as the bloke was driving an Impala and not some offensive ricer.... LOL....

[BartSimpson]

A Jew with an Israeli flag is offensive? Since when is the CHRC protecting the rights and sensibilities of Nazis?

[Tricks]

It's probably the poppy they are pissed about.

[ASLplease]

stupid laws deserve to be ignored.

[FFed]

I don't mind them having their displays, it's when they shove their religious literature or philosophy in my face that I start getting pissed off.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

This is pathetic. I've been offended by cabbies themselves but I've not yet seen anything on their dashboard I've ever had a problem with.

[Lemmy]

As long as they AT LEAST have one of those pine-tree air fresheners, I don't give a shit what else they have in the cab. They could have a picture of Adolf-fucking Hitler, for all I care, so long as the cab doesn't smell like Islamabad in August.

[Pyra_cantha]

Benn Benn:

Only way I can see the Taxi Commissiojn getting away with this is citing safety reasons. Even small items not bolted down can be dnagerous projectiles in an accident.

Even so, a taxi should not be going fast enough to make those projectiles dangerous to any passenger. plus the only way said projectiles where to become airborne and harm the passenger is if the cab where backing up at high speed. Anyone here see a cab going 100km/h along the 40 backwards?