Tampa Taxi Shots

Don't Give Money To This Guy - He Is Running A Scam

If you live in south Tampa or drive North on Howard avenue at the intersection of Kennedy and Howard, you have seen this guy. He is doing what they call on the streets "flying a sign." In short, he is begging for money. He has been on this corner for over a year. That is ridiculous.

Hell, I remember last Christmas season he was wearing a Santa hat (What cedar chest did he pull that out of?)

He is out here all day long. he never misses a day. I know this for a fact because O never miss a day of work. If a guy can show up every day to do this, can he not hold a job? He is older then me, so I am sure he is getting a Social Security check. This must be his supplemental income plan.

His sign claims he is homeless, looking for work, hungry, and other things. None of this is true.

The Shell station on this corner has tried to get rid of him. He is aggressive with their customers. He ask for money and cigs. He won't leave people alone. 

They have called the cops on this guy  They do not want a permanent fixture in front of their store being this guy claiming to be a bum and in need of money.

HE IS NOT HOMELESS....HE LIVES IN A NICE APARTMENT IN SO HO...HE HAS A MAC IPHONE WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE ON HIS PLAN A(i know this for a fact..I'm a cab driver..I hear things).

He is running a scam. Plus, his is an asshole. He calls the Shell station and insults the people working there because they have had him tresspassed from the property. 

He waves at people and smiles.he thinks he is being charming. I think he is high. I see this type of behaviour and mannerisms all day long as a cab driver. 

There are real homeless people but he has a claim to the most lucrative corner in Tampa. This is wrong. I know for a fact construction and lawn service guys have offered him a job and he said he cannot work for ten bucks an hour. WTF!

Please Tampa...Stop giving this con man money.

Paying The Man

I had to go to the Downtown Tampa courthouse today. I really did not want to but I was in a little bit of trouble, and could not allow this to go much further. I had an outstanding ticket that needed to be paid. I drive for living so I needed to take care of this fast.  None of this was my fault because I was a victim of circmstances, and a ticket hungry cop.

Last February I picked up a fare at Memorial Hospital in south Tampa.It was around sunrise on a Sunday morning. The fare came out and he had a black eye. It really looked like someong had beat his ass. He said a cop did it to him . I did not beleive his story.                                                                                                      

In a situation in which a police officer would have to use such force, the guy probably would have been arrested. Moreover, they don’t send Baker Acts to Memorial Hospital. There is an intake center on the east side of town for that. Another thing that made me nervous was he was paying cash. A rule of thumb about Emergency rooms in the early mornings is the fare, for whatever reason, never has any money.

He was not going very far, so I decided to take the risk. I started heading down Henderson boulevard toward Gandy. The guy was sitting behind me and starting to act a little weird. There are many things the cab driver must focus on while driving to ensure safety. Unfortuanlty, looking over our shoulder at a stranger sitting behind us can cause a distraction and I was distracted.

I saw the blue lights in my rearview mirror and thought they must be for someone else. I was wrong.

The cop pulled up right behind me and I put on my turn signal while I pulled over.
I wanted to tell the police officer that I had a weirdo in the back seat and plead mitigation under these circumstances but I saved my breath. When cops stake out certain intersections on a quite Sunday morning - The Are Going to Write a Ticket. That is the only reason they are there. They are reviewed like any other employer on any other job. He has a quota to meet and there is no better way to get cheap tickets then lay in wait when nobody is on the roads, and by definition, nobody is in danger. 

He gave me a ticket for going 50 in a 35 zone. The cop was wrong. The speed limit on Henderson is 40. The cop lied on the ticket and I was not going to let him get away with it. I decided to take it to court, and I did. 
The judge agreed with me because he lives in south Tampa and was familiar with that stretch of road.

He did, however, lower it to going ten miles an hour over the speed limit instead of fifteen. That meant a $240 ticket was reduced to $120. The judge even cut that in half, withheld adjudication, withheld points, and gave me sixty days to pay the fee and court cost. This is the kicker. Court Cost are $93...wow! I still won, sort of. 

You can see in the photo that I had until August 12, to pay the fine. I hate August. Nothing good happens in August. That is the slow time of year down here for the service industry and August puts the slow in slow season. Bottom line was I could not come up with the money. 

I finally made some good money today because of the Special Forces convention that is town this week, and got down to the courthouse to pay the fine. 

They told me my driver’s license would have been suspended on September 13 if I had not paid it today. I forked over the 173 bucks. That hurt.

I hope you are happy Mr. Police Officer. Is that all you have to do is screw with law-abiding people. Was it that important to do this to me? There is a recession gong on and I really needed to use that money for other things. 

Go shake down a real bad guy you punk.

 

Bar Exam In Tampa And Some Taxi Busness

The Florida Bar exam is held twice a year in Tampa. This is an even that many drivers look forward too. The reason is that you can cover you lease in the early morning, and then spend the rest of the day making some money for yourself.

This photo is a view from the drop off area at the Tampa Convention Center. There were many cabs coming in and out of this area so I knew the guys were getting work. It only lasted for a couple hours and we need so much more then that. 

I went into Paul Hinton's office and asked him what he was going to do to make sure that his drivers would be able to make money during the coming months. He said something about calling Ft. Laurderdale to see what they thought. Don't get me wrong, I like Paul but hie is like the front man for a politician - he will only spout the party line. 

Many drivers who are grown men and have been driving for years are making no money. you would think the company would want the good drivers who built this company to make money. Why would they care when there are boat people to hire. 

In the long run their actions are working against them. They have no clue of this; they will make less money in the future because of the lack of foresight they show today. That is the classic definition of a fool. 

Single White Female

Sometimes you can smell trouble from a mile away. There are instances when your intuition kicks in that tells you this is not going to be good. Taxi fares attitudes can radiate from very long distances. Something as basic as a persons name given to the dispatch is a good clue that you may be headed for trouble. 

I got a call to an apartment complex late night and the only name on the order was “White Female.” For some reason I was thinking about the movie Single White Female where the roommate turned out to be a homicidal maniac. I do not think I have ever picked up a fare like that before, yea, right.

What was going on here was this lady did not want to give us a name. She had attitude working and it was four in the morning. Trust me, if a female is alone at that hour, somebody ditched her boyfriend or one of her gal pals gave her the slip. In either case, it had everything to do with what was going on with “White Female.” 

I pull up to the apartments and I see the cops parked outside (never a good sign). As I pull up, this white female comes from around the police cars, gets in the back seat, and tells me to floor it. I do not. I tell her that in the presence of the police I will need two things out of her. I will need a clear and precise destination and the money up front BEFORE I go anywhere. I can tell be her body language that she thinks I am an asshole. 

I can see her counting her money and she says take me to the train station; she wants to get a train to Orlando. Considering the train station is only down town and not very far, I put the taxi in drive. I only get about two blocks and I can tell she is stressing badly. She says her boyfriend had been arrested and she was afraid that when he got out of jail in the morning, he would come looking for her. She said he was charged with "dating violence." There is no such thing as that...another red flag. Trouble is afoot. 

She now says she wants to go to Winter Haven Florida and wants to know how much that will run. I tell her that will be about $150 and I will need the money up front. She says she only has $140 and wants to know if that be all right. I said it would be but I was low on gas and we needed to stop at the Shell station right ahead. 

We pull into the station and I instruct her to go inside and prepay for $40 forth of gas, I will pump it, then she needs to give me the remaining 100 bucks and we will be on our way. She starts to balk. 

“How about if I pay you when we get to Winter Haven?” She asks.

“Unacceptable.” I say. “I need money up front or we go nowhere.” 

She says she is worried that I may rob her of her money and ditch her on the side of the road. She wants to see my drivers’ license, which I refuse to show her. She jumps out of the cab and runs to the back to see the number on my tag. She hops back in the taxi and tells me to write the number down before she forgets it. I tell her I have no interest in writing my tag number down. For the last time I need my money. 

“Can I give you half?” She asks. I hand her a pen and some scratch paper and tell her to write something down. She takes the pen and wants to know what to write down. 

“Suck my cock.” I say.

She opens the door and takes off running. She even leaves the door open. No big deal, all you do is move the car forward and the door will close. 

What was going on here was nobody (including the cops) wanted to deal with this woman. She is one of the crazed, ego driven people who go thru live thinking that her problems are the result of everyone else doing her wrong. It seemed to me many people tonight were trying to help this women but she was beyond help. 

I move on to another call.

My Yahoo Email Is Sending Out Spam To My Contacts

This is what Yahoo says:

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We also suggest you perform a virus scan on your computer(s) if you haven't already done so."

Tom123 was very rude with with me and thought I was deliberatly sending him a link to a virus. I was attacked by some type of robot or worm. He did not have to be so damn rude about it. He really was a total dick and threatened me as well. I would really prefer that he just go away and leave me alone and eat another Wall-Mart frozen dinner and pet that dog that must be dead by now...Your not the only one that can be dick.

 

Aqib Talib Is Called Out By This Taxi Driver

Aqib Talib is a great athlete. At corner he makes more interceptions then any man in the NFL. He was defense of player of year while missing four games. He is the complete package at defense. There is a problem. He is a very dangerous man off the field. The Buccaneers need to realize that, and get rid of him.

In the meantime I hope he does not get into my taxi cab. In sixteen years of driving taxi, I have been assaulted three times. It did not end well for the perpetrator. Two of them I know are maimed for life, the other may have recovered from his broken arm.

When I was assaulted out of the cab, on the second floor of a project I pushed the guy off the second floor balcony. He may be dead. I don't know, nor do I care.

Many cab drivers have "things" in their cabs. These "things" could bring your NFL carrier too a sudden halt. You were lucky that the cabbie you hit was not armed. I'm telling you guy many are. I would claim self defense.

I am a Buc fan and we need you at defense. Stop being a fuck up guy.

Your coach at Kansas was ripping you on Twitter hard last night saying you were the stupidest person he had ever known. He basically called you a retard. If your coach is calling you that, it may be to late for you.

You hit the DNA lottery with your football skills. The world was your oyster with a multi-million contract. You could have lived the rest of your life doing anything your heart desires. When you are my age and broke, you will know how much you fucked yourself.

You need to contact Tony Dungy and let him be your father and mentor. He is a man of God and can help you get your life back on track. Look at what he did for Mike Vick. Make that call now.

The Right To Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed..

  Former Miss Tierra Verde Meghan Brown Shoots Dead Home Invasion Ex-Con Albert Hill with 4 slugs. In nature the female of any species isdeadlier then the male. Again folks, why was thisscumbag with multiple arrest and incarcerations doing back out on the streets?

 DAILY MAIL UK NEWS….Meghan Brown opened door to intruder at 3am in Tierra Verde Florida thinking he was a friend.  But she claims the 42-year-old, 200lb man named Albert Hill (ex-con) grabbed her from behind and covered her nose and mouth with his hand, before heading straight to the bedroom.

As she screamed, her fiancé emerged, later telling the St Petersburg Times: ‘My number one objective is to get this guy off my fiancée.’ Detectives said the intruder then ordered him to give him money.
 

The fight between the two men broke the dining room table and chairs but, as they tussled, Miss Brown produced her pink gun from her bedside table. ‘I had my gun drawn, focused in on him – as he moved, my gun moved. I waited for my shot and when I saw an opening, I fired,’ she told the newspaper.  Miss Brown said she was ‘glad’ it had been her, because not everybody else would have been as prepared as she was, MORE FROM THIS SOURCE….

Albert Hill was a life long criminal who only robbed people to make a living. His arrests and convictions include, Cocaine Sales-Dealing, Burglary, Resisting Arrest, Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer for which he got 10 years in prison and Grand Theft.

The Brown family is rich. That is good becasue they will be able to hire Barry Cohen or some other great lawyer to help them. This sounds like simple self defense. Look at how beat up Mr. Brown was after the fight with this dirt bag.

 

Information for post gathered from Private Eye Bill Warner Blog

Pay The Fare Jerk!

It was early in the afternoon when I picked up this couple outside of a bar in south Tampa. It was a young woman and a man that was twice her age. I knew nothing about them, only that they wanted a ride to a house a few miles away to get her purse, and return to the bar for more drinking. It was the time of day when we start to get more calls on the board and the taxi driver can actually make some money. It was the girl that I first noticed when she appeared in my window wanting to know if she could “sit in cab.” I thought that was a strange way of asking for a ride. They get in the backseat and we are on our way.

     It seems he had run out of money and she wanted to get her purse so they could return to the bar and keep drinking. They were very friendly to each other and started making out and groaning in the back seat. I hate that. I have no idea why people behave like that next to a total stranger.

      “Can I smoke?”

      I told her she could if she wanted but I preferred that she did not.

      Smoking seems to be an issue for many people. Most people do ask first, and let it go when I say no. Some people just get in with a lit cigarette or light one up without asking. How rude is that? Would you go into someone’s home and just light up without asking? Considering that many of our fares go absolutely nowhere, they can wait until they get to their destination. I will let people smoke if I am going to make some real money off of them. If they are going a long distance or out of town, fine, go ahead and smoke. I am not that cruel. Plus, they may give me a decent tip if I let them.

     Often customers will request a “non-smoking” cab. These are people, like me, that just don’t want to be around smoke for various reasons. With me its health as I have chronic bronchitis caused by massive exposure to second hand smoke when I was a kid and I find it hard to breath around smoke. The strange thing is that chain smoking cab drivers will respond to these calls thinking all they have to do is roll down the window to air it out. It does not work that way guys. Your stinking cabs reek with the nasty smell. These customers really don’t want to smell it.

      They continue to kiss in the back seat and start making a slurping sound that is getting messy. I’ve had a long day at this point, and don’t want to listen to them carry on. I can’t wait to get to her house merely to just break them apart for a bit. I look in the rearview mirror and you can see them tonguing and grouping. He wants her to come back to his room instead of the bar. What! His has a room? Does this guy live in a motel or something? He ain’t got no money; I know that much and I am now beginning to think all this was just a bar pick up. These situations can go bad quickly. Her street is just ahead and I turn onto it.

      The chick goes up to the door and enters the house. The guy stays with me in the cab. We start talking about south Tampa and he says he has been around a long time. Since I am a sixteen year veteran cab driver and have picked many people at the Tappers Pub before I ask him if knows many of the regulars. My old barber and the bi-polar bombshell chick used to drink there and he says he knows them, but has not seen them in a long time. It has been a few years, to think about it. That’s what happens when you jockey a cab for a living, time starts to mean nothing; it just merges together and eventually a decade seems like last week. Speaking of time, the chick has been in the house a while am I’m beginning to here my little voice.

      All cab drivers have that little voice and it will begin to talk to you at the moment something seems to be wrong. It is a self-defense mechanism which is developed over a long period of time seeing just about everything. My little voice is telling me that she’s not coming back.

      At this point the chicks neighbor across the street walks up with a cell phone at his ear. I roll the window down and he tells me “Susie” just called him and said she is not coming out of the house. I ask him some questions but he states that is all he knows, and walks off. I immediately ask the guy in the back seat if he has any money

    “No, she was going to pay for this.”

     Great, I got a bum in my car and no apparent way of being paid. The guy gets out of the cab and goes up to the house and pounds on the door. She of course does not respond. I notice that there are taxi fares on the computer. Maybe these people have some money and aren’t going to waste my fucking time. I put it in gear and take off leaving dust behind.

      I hear the guys yelling for me to stop.

      What the fuck for?

      I need to make money and he’s lucky this is all that happened to him.

A Drunken Chick

                                                                     
      This night was going like any other weekend night; people were out partying and acting like fools. That’s the good part.  Unfortunatly, there comes that moment, late in the night, when the fares will turn the tables and try to make a fool out of the cab driver.  Alcohol combined with frustration can be a naughty combination, in more ways then one.  That is something you will soon learn as a cab driver at night. It was around 4:00 a.m. and the bars were closed when I got a call on the south side to pick up a female. This could be bad.  Unescorted females, at this hour, can be very bad news.

      I pull into the driveway and this glassy eyed woman gets into the backseat (I hate it when they want to ride upfront).

      “Take me to Deleon and Howard.”  She says.

       “No problem” I tell her.

       “Do you know where that’s fucking at?”  She says.

       With drunken chicks you can always count on the F word.

      I pull out of the driveway and head down to the end of the street and begin to turn south towards the Hyde Park area.  This should be a simple drive, just straight down Manhattan and dump her out.        

      “Where the fuck are you going?"  She demands to know.

      “I’m taking you home; you do live in Hyde Park right?”

      “All you fucking cab drivers want to take me the long way.”  She claims.

      I stop the cab and look back at her. This is the moment when I try to decide if I’m even going to take her another foot or tell her to get out. She looks really wasted.

      “Look miss, you are a little drunk, so just let me take you home.”  I tell her.

     “What makes you think I’ve been drinking?”  She says with slurred speech.

      She continues to demand that I head in the opposite direction.

      “Fine, let’s go your way.”  Now, I’m getting a little pissed.We head off in the WRONG direction, as per her instructions.  She just sits there quietly and says nothing. Then, the silence is broken.

      “Do you have any jams in this car?”

      I tell her I do, and ask her what channel she wants to listen to.  I am thinking it is the local Hip-Hop station.  Gee, how did I know that?  We continue now all the way down to Gandy. This is starting to get ridiculous.  If we go any further, we will soon be on the Air force Base. She now looks around and wonders where we are at.  She really does not know.

      I turn the radio down and tell her that if she is good, I will take her home.  The meter now has $10 on it (that’s what it would have been if we had gone the right way) and I tell her that is all I will charge her if she just lets me get her home safely.  She remains quit the rest of the way.

      We arrive at her house.  I am so happy.  I always feel uncomfortable around people who have lost control of their faculties.  She opens the door and gets out. She wads something up and throws it at me. It is a ten dollar bill.  No tip, no thank you, no nothing.

      “Fuck you asshole” she says as she walks away.

      Man, I love my job. 

Rick Scott Is A Liar And A Criminal: He Should Be In Prison, Not The Governor Of Florida

Dick Morris says that Rick Scott should be in jail, not in the Florida Governors mansion.  Scott needs to leave the State of Florida or go to prison, I agree.  I can not logically see any option that puts him in the Governor mansion...A 8' by 12' cell would be more appropriate. 

 

Incident At Starbucks

I got a call this morning at Starbucks Coffee on South Howard in Hyde Park.  I was on time and pulled up next to the front door so my fare could see me.  Within seconds, there was a problem. 

A guy driving a dark colored Porsche  pulled behind me and started flashing his high beams and blowing his horn (very adult behaviour).  He would not leave it alone.  He had plenty of room to go around, but that was not good enough for him.  Finally, he pulled around and yelled out his window that I was in a no parking zone.  He must not have seen that I was a cab and there obviously to pick someone up. 

He gets out of car and charges my taxi.  He comes to the front window and tells me that I need to move forward because he says so.  I put it in reverse and move one foot backwards.  He yells "that is not forward."  I yell "get the fuck out of my face asshole." 

"You worthless Goddamn piece of shit is not going to stand here and bust my balls when I am trying to make a living. "  "Fuck off, and get away from my taxi now ASSHOLE." 

His jaw dropped.  I guess in his world people kiss his ass. 

My fare came out (she works there).  She said he was pissed because he always parks in the no-parking zone. She laughed.  I felt much better about myself and my self-esteem has been very high all day. 

Kathy Castor Needs To Go - She is Bad for Tampa

Kathy Castor is a committed socialist.  He mother is an 'aider and abettor of enemies to the United States.'  Their radical and unconscionable agenda is the wrong thing for Tampa, Florida and the Untied States. The last straw was the SCHIP that closed down the cigar industry in Tampa.

There is a clear choice in November - Mike Prendergast.  He is an American hero and a retired Army Colonial.  We need this guy.  Goodbye Castor.

On a personal note Kathy...how could you and your mother make a living out of condemning a system that has made your family rich?  If you had come up in my family, of hard work and NOBODY giving you a break, you would have a different understanding of life.  

We know this because you refuse to return opposition phone calls or debate any candidate.  You have a lack of personal courage Ms. Castor.  For that alone, you are unfit for office.

Go away Kathy Castor and get a real job.  Maybe you will learn something about life.  I don't think that will happen.  Your life of privelage keeps you going. 

Tampa needs someone who will represent them in Congress that will be focused on jobs and what is right for our area.  We do not need someone is simply trying to impress the President and score points with her party.  I wish that all Marco Rubio supporters will consider Mike Prendergast to replace Castor.  There is much at stake.  If we don't get rid of here now, she may be there for decades.  She caught a break when Jim Davis gave up the post to run for Governor.  Don't let a accident burden us for a generation.  Vote Mike Prendergast.

You Will Pay The Taxi Fare Or Go To Jail

The Hillsborough County Transportation Commission gives taxi drivers the right to collect all fares in advance under all circumstances.  That is the end of the story.  You will pay - or else. 

There are no circumstances that will keep you out of jail if you try to Wiesel your way out of paying a fare.

Why do people try to beat the cabbie?

• They are drunk
• They are stupid
• They are from New York
• They think the cabbie took them the wrong way (an urban myth)

If the fare runs $20 and you tell me the cabbie the night before did it for only $10 - that is between you and him.  Pay me bitch or go to jail

Rays and Red Sox are Now Part Of The Same Federation

The Tampa Bay Rays are the champions of the American League East Division.  They have much to thank the Boston Red sox for.  

The Rays mood changed in the dugout when they heard that the Yankees had been defeated by the Red Sox.  This type of event has future implications. 

In Star Trek The Next Generation the philosophical premise was that the Klingons had joined the Federation because we were now at peace with them. In the episode Yesterdays Enterprise it is shown that what preceded this peace, was when the Enterprise defended a Klingon (Red Sox) outpost from a Romlulin (Yankee) warship.  Dying in defence of your enemy is the highest form of honor.  

The Red Sox showed this honor during the weekend with their fierce determination to play spoilers against "suck-nation" and help their now blood brothers, the Rays win the division. 

The lines have been drawn.  We are enemies no more. From this historical moment onward the Rays and Red Sox battle and fight against the dreaded Yankees and not each other. 

Trevor Dooley Smiles, Jokes and Shows No Remorse for Murder of Valrico Man

These photos are shocking.  I found them on a news website that was linking to my blog. These images show Trevor Dooley smiling when being removed from his home and joking around with an Orient road jail employee. Why?  Could he at least show some remorse for leaving a little girl without a father. I know the society he comes from has many fatherless homes, so whats the big deal right? He can be released on $50,000 bail. I say he is a flight risk. Keep his ass in jail.

Being led out of his house with a smile

 

Joking with a jail employee

I think what many people want is just some human emotion about the real and tragic harm this animal has caused. And to think he was driving around our children.

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Trevor Dooley Is A Murderer

People have been sent to the electric chair with less evidence than the Hillsborough County Sheriffs department has.  There was no credible motive for Trevor Dooley to shot and kill David James in Valrico during broad dayling when James was unarmed and only seconds earlier was playing basketball with his daughter. If the authorities can't figure it out, let me try: 

1. Trevor Dooley  had shown disdain and aggression in the past over a public park that HE has no oversight in.
2. Dooleys problem was with kids skateboarding - not anything that could cause HIM harm.
3. Dooley packed a loaded handgun to enter public property knowing he was going to perhaps get into an argument.  Knowing that HIS pleaded case had been ignored in the past, the gun was a new bargaining chip. 
4. Anger is not an excuse for murder.
5. A shoving match is not "fear for my life."
6. Dooley had a clear avenue of escape in 360 degrees.

Everything points to Dooley having the gun and shooting the gun at an unarmed man David James. I am a taxi driver, does this mean that I can now kill everyone I have an argument with or people who don't pay me? 

Considering how badly Dooley wanted to kill someone and leave a wife with no husband and a little girl with no daddy, we should bring back the chair on special occasions.

This photo was from a botched execution in 1999 in Florida. It seems they used the wrong sponge, or something, and they had to inflict the jolt 3 times. This killer  may have felt the torment that his victims did. Rot in hell asshole just like Dooley. 

Is Cheap Bar In Tampa Padding Credit Cards?

Cheap bar and restaurant in south Tampa will pad your credit card with extra charges and wait for you to complain. That is the claim made by the "Bubba The Love Sponge" show this morning. Bubba has an employee named 25 cent (a black guy) that went to the club and all kinds of extra charges were added, including the tip (there is a belief among servers that black people don't tip). This seems to be standard policy stated by the owner Tommy Ortiz on the radio show. If you don't catch it, you pay. If you are black, they will add the tip on top of the meal (he denied this). Overcharging credit cards is criminal. If I did that in my taxi cab, I would not only be fired...I would go to jail. Tommy Ortiz needs to be very careful. Look at all the important people and lawyers that go into his restaurant. None of them have complained? Who knows.

A Professional Cab Driver In Tampa Florida

 Those military guys have been an influence on me. I got my hair cut today to keep up the look of a dedicated professional taxi cab driver. You get a lot when Tim Fasano comes to your house. Right Ladies!?

In the midst of all this controlled chaos (we have been as busy as when the Super Bowl was here), I got a call around 7:30 am down on Bayshore which was going to the airport. 

It was a beautiful place, right on the water. I got there as soon as I could, but the man was angry as hell. He said he had called at 7:12 and his flight was at 8:30 and he wanted to know the correct spelling of my name. I try to explain to him that HE was cutting it too short, and we had this big convention in town. He did not care, he wanted to know my name. Fine.

"F..A..S..A..N..O" I tell him.  I even give him a business card so he WON'T call the wrong number. I hope he gets Rhonda on the phone; she will put him in his place. This is one business where the customer is hardly ever right. They lie like Real Estate buyers...you know the old saying "buyers are lier's, sellers are yeller's." This guy was proof of reincarnation, you cannot get that stupid in one lifetime.

Stalking Is A Crime And Should Be Reported

I did. Even in the cyber world it is a crime to continuously harass and insult someone in a persistent way. I went to the police and gave them Mr. Scott Hamilton's IP address and they looked it up on their computer. They wanted me to compile more information before they went out to make an arrest. I need to show them screen shots and images that I have. I don't really want to do this; I just want him to go away. I know he reads this blog, and if he gets the message and leaves me alone, so be it. I would love to go to the social at the pub on July 15. 

Scott Hamilton Of The Saint Pete Skeptics Society

Observe. Analyze. Verify. Be skeptical. You forgot pejorative and harassing. Scott Hamilton of the St. Pete Skeptics Society seems to have it in for me. He prides himself in being an observer in the mold of James Randi or Loren Coleman (whom he is critical of). Beneath the vernier lies something else.

Last October I had an outing in a SWIFMUD area that yielded some of my best results to date. I posted the findings on YouTube and initially on my successful blog Tampa Taxi Shots. The reason I choose Tampa Taxi Shots as my first avenue to show the world my finding was because that blog is linked in the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, Creative Loafing and many other news and blog sites. That is a fact unknown to Mr. Hamilton who seemed taken back by that.

This punk has been (dover) stalking me on on several of my cyber blogs and posting on other forums and blogs for the purpose of insulting me. This guy is scum, and I cannot wait to meet him in person, to have a real conversation with him and find out what his problem is. I went to the Tampa Police to report him to cyber crimes and they ran his IP address and found some interesting stuff.

Why Did Dontae Morris Surrender?

Dontae Morris is looking at the death penalty. They don't fool around in Florida. Unfortunately, it will take about ten years for him to exhaust all of his appeals. Then, the needle. We used to have Ole' Sparky. The condemned man would fry like a sausage in a pan. He had NOTHING to gain by turning himself in. Morris would have been better off camping out in the woods. 

The details of the 'third party' surrender are not known at this time.  I suspect a responsible family member convinced him to at least do one honorable thing in his life and give some respect to the grieving families and turn himself in before the funerals Saturday morning. It looks like that is what happened. 

Is Dontae Rashawn Morris A Runaway Slave?

The Florida Sentinel Bulletin thinks so. The Tampa black newspaper the Florida Sentinel Bulletin had an editorial today that hinted that Dontae Rashawn Morris may be a runaway slave. The article was by "The Sole-Man Speaks" and his logic was that every city in the south, including Tampa, has an area of town that most white folks never go into. In Florida it is called the Black Bottom. The best of the best, and the worst of the worst will risefrom these blighted neighborhoods. Unfortunately, it is usually the worst.

Dontae Rashawn Morris was raised in Jacksonville Florida in the worst black bottom there is. He is now suspected of killing two Tampa police officers. The Sentinel cited the incident in Polk County a few years ago when a black man killed a white police officer, and when he was arrested he was shot 68 times by the cops to the point that his body was not recognizable as a human being. That was wrong, but I think it had more to do with the rage of the police and the actions of the suspect himself. Somehow he was innocent in the Sentinels mind.

They say that black fathers are cautioning their sons not to be out at night because they may be killed by the Tampa Police. Fist of all, 70% of all black boys do not have fathers active in their lives, and the police are only looking for Dontae Rashawn Morris. Are you people still slaves? Is that what you really want to be? The last I checked the President of the Untied States and the Attorney General were black. They seem to be doing fine living in this racist country. Are we still living in "Mississippi Burning?"

The Sentinel writes:

"...Dontae Morris is Black. The officers he reputedly shot are white. Not that it matters, but somewhere down the craggy, putrid road of American History, it matters, dearly"

The only thing putrid is Mr. Morris. Clean up your own acts before you start blaming this on the Tampa Police you bastards.

"Our condolences go out to the slain officers' families. Our sadness embraces the accused assailants's mother and father. Our heart breaks to consider that we HAVE STILL NOT OVERCOME."

What they mean is that they have not overcome the white man. I hope it is a black police officer that greases this piece of human shit.

Manhunt: Dontae Rashawn Morris At Large

 This is such a senseless loss.  Two Tampa police officers were murdered because a guy had a warrant for a bad check in Jacksonville Florida. What was Dontae Morris so afraid of?  He has been arrested 41 times in his brief 24 years on earth. Certainly the system is a joke and he would not remain in jail. I have no idea why he needed to kill.  Now, the cops will either kill him or he will get the death penalty.

 Also, Officer Jeff Kocab’s wife gave birth today to their first child. She was due next week, but went into labor within hours of her husband’s murder. For her, today is bittersweet. The birth of her first child and the loss of her husband. My heart goes out to the families of both victims. Maybe justice be served.

When Mr. Morris is captured we should have a "blow torch' party.  Let people run a lit blow torch all over his body before a red hot pipe is stuck up his ass until smoke comes out his mouth, then hang him upside down, douse him with gasoline and light him on fire before tossing him into a wood chipper and let dogs piss on what comes out, take the remains mix it with dog food and feed it to alligators. Its time to get medieval on these scum. 

Watch Your Speed On Sundays

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The Tampa police know that the only day of the week that you can speed on Dale Mabry is on Sunday. That is why they set up a speed trap north of Mlk Just south of Hillsborough. Now this poor guy just because he was up early Sunday will now have to hire Ty Trayner or pay the fine or go to school. In short, his life is inconvenienced because of the Tampa Police Department being involved in revenue generation for the city of Tampa


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Obama Is Getting Worked By Tony Hayward 'Ja Blow Me Of BP

 "The Ocean is just a barrier to getting the oil we need. Kill the oceans. Get the oil" - Tony Hayward - CEO of British Petroleum

Everyone that lives on the Gulf Coast of the United States will have their lives changed in ways that we can only imagine now.  I live on the west coat of Florida and work in the tourist industry - I drive a taxi cab. Tourism is very important to me. People come down for our beaches, golf courses, and great defense (Bucs).  If the white sugar sand of the gulf becomes black sludge, kiss it goodbye. What is sad is that this could of been over by now if we had a President that had actually had a job before he took the highest office in the land. Did you hear him last night?  This guy can hardly speak without a teleprompter in front of him. REALITY IS WHAT YOU WILL SEE BELOW.

This is the Deep-water Horizon explosion.  This should have gotten somebodies attention. 

Within days giant sea turtles were washing ashore dead. Very sad.

Shrimp boat were out in the Gulf Of Mexico trying to bring in a catch.  They had no choice. This is shrimp season and their families are depending on them.

These dolphin are trying to find flipper and wondering why their home is now full of oil

The Gulf is on fire.  You would think that it would have got the attention of the President while he was in San Francisco at a fund raiser for Barbara Boxer. 

Former Obama voters and supporters are directing their rage at Tony Haward of BP.  It won't be long before their boy starts to get the blame. 

If this don't make you sad, what would?

This looks like something out of the ANDROMEDA STRAIN with these guys in hazardous material suits running up to the beach while Nero played his fiddle.

There are NO WORDS for this photo

More Andromeda Strain Guys along the Gulf beaches

On day 10 Obama met with "God" himself Bono of U2 in the White House. I guess this man has all the answers.  I would have been meeting with engineers and scientist...but what do I know?  I am just a taxi cab driver.            

Many ships are now dumping at sea to save cost.  I was out at one of our local beaches Sunday and the stink was beyond belief.  They say there is no oil here, but where did this shit come from?  What is happening to our world right under our eyes?  See this video I put on YouTube.

Obama Is Blameless In Oil Disaster

 How could Barack Obama have anything to do with the greatest ecological disaster in the history of the United States? Everyone knows that George Bush is the cause of this. I suggest someone call the Bush house and awaken him from his nap, and tell him he must do something to stop this...the same goes for the Middle East, Arizona, Korea, Europe, the economy and so forth.  How could some guy in his second year as President have any responsibility for anything. BIOB...Blame It On Bush!

Just remember - Yes We Can!  Yes We Kan! Yes We Can Can Him!  An impeachment may be in the works. We need to before things get even worse. Maybe he will just resign or something.  I know this bird hopes so. 

YES WE CAN!  HOPE AND CHANGE!   GET LOST PAL! 

Free Green Cabs In Tampa Are Scabs

 If you go downtown on the weekends to party, you may have run into the guy above. His name is Tim Ireland. He runs a "free Cab" in Tampa Florida. The only question is - Why?

I don't know what you do for a living but if someone came along and told your boss they would do it for free, you might have a problem with that. If this person was just willing to work for tips when you have a mortgage and a family and responsibilities, you would actually be pissed. Many cab drivers in Tampa are.

The Hillsborough County Transportation Commission believes these free taxi cabs need to be taken off the streets. They really have never heard of such a thing. Who has? Working for free. Who is this Tim Ireland?

"The Green Go vehicles don't fit the legal definition of taxicabs, because they don't have meters. The closest definition they fit is limousines, but the commission has denied limo permits for vehicles that weren't considered sufficiently luxurious."  -St. Pete Times

Tim Ireland of the Green free taxi is a scab. In this time of economic downturn, there is not enough business to support the taxi drivers that have been doing this for years, if not, decades. When somebody comes along and finds bums like Ireland to undercut taxi cabs (by law we must charge $2.25 a mile) He can give them a free ride. Why? Is he that desperate? How much can he make doing this? Most grown men would not do what this little, little, boy does. I guess he lives with his mommy and daddy. How else could he do this. He needs to go back to HCC with the rest of his nerdy friends and leave men alone who take the transportation business seriously.

If you want to be a taxi cab driver in Tampa Florida, United Cab is the finest cab company in Tampa.  It is very good for new drivers because of the training program, scaled leases, voice radio dispatch which can help a new driver, and a stand system that puts you in social contact with other drivers who can offer advice. Be a real cab driver.  You just need to get a 'hack' permit from the HCPTC and be cleared thru insurance, and you are on your way. Just don't let the free guys take your business from you. 

Pelosi Blames Bush For Gulf Oil Spill

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blamed the Bush administration for any lack of oversight leading up to the Gulf oil spill. The Obama administration, on the other hand, is blameless.

From Talk Radio News Service:

“Many of the people appointed in the Bush administration are still burrowed in the agencies that are supposed to oversee the [oil] industry,” Pelosi said when asked if Democrats could have prevented or mitigated the crisis by keeping a closer watch on the industry.

Added the Speaker, “the cozy relationships between the Bush administration’s agency leadership and the industry is clear…I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated.

On Friday, the Washington Examiner requested that Speaker Pelosi’s office release the list of Bush appointees to whom she was referring. We’ll let you know when we hear back.

Obama is in his SECOND YEAR as president.  If he was the environmental President as we were told, he had time to enact regulations or deny permits.  The BP permit for this dig was on his watch. Man up and take ownership or move on. Let someone who can do the job step in. ..Please.

 

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/pelosi-blames-bush-administration-for-bp-oil-spill-95175304.html#ixzz0pMCXiZL2

Tampa Police Like To Write Cheap Traffic Tickets

I saw the cop as I was coming over the bridge at MLK and the Hillsborough river (not to far from the pain management clinic). It was a Sunday morning and things were slow, so why not wait at a spot where some cab driver coming down an incline might pick up speed without knowing it. Before he sees the cop, HE'S NAILED! and Tampa has more money to work with. Just do a bake sale guys if you need money. Better yet, follow me and I will show you were the real bad guys are at...then do your job like a real man

. I know were all the speed traps are at in Tampa from being on the streets as a taxi driver. I will be sharing this information with my blog watchers soon. That will cut down on the amount of money Tampa is extorting from law abiding citizens.

2137 West Martin Luther King ave Tampa Florida Needs To Be Shut Down For Illegal Drug Trafficking

 I began to wonder about this place a couple of months ago when I started getting multiple rides a day to this clinic at 2137 West Martin Luther King in Tampa from all the low end motels on Dale Mabry.  It is called Total Imaging and all of the fares were from out of State and said they had come to Tampa for 'Pain Management.' They all looked like 'crack heads.'  They were all young, and none of them walked with a limp.  

I would pull into the parking area and take them to the back (that is were the entrance is). The crummy looking people hanging out in the parking lot all had tattoos and were smoking cigarettes and it looked like the waiting room at the methadone clinic,  

I finally figured out what was going on when I started taking people to a pharmacy in Temple Terrace which was the only one in Tampa that, at the time, could dispense large, massive, obscene quantities of opium based drugs.  These people from out of State were not in pain, they were dealers coming to Florida for a large supply to take back to Ohio (most seem to be from there) and sell them street level. 

Some days, it gets to the point, when you get a call from the Days Inn Stadium, Howard Johnson's Stadium, Best Western South Dale Mabry, Tahitian Inn South Dale Mabry, you tell your dispatcher in advance where you will be vacating at even before you pick up!  You just know they are going to Tampa's new, great, tourist attraction.  That is now what we are becoming known for.  To bad we don't have real tourist.  

How can places like this keep operating?

I do like the business from the drug dealers, but this has got to stop. One night I took these guys there around midnight, and the place was still open!  People in the parking lot were smoking dope and drinking beer.  I say the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement is doing a great job when a Tampa Taxi Shots Cab driver can find out more then they can.  Did I leave out the Tampa Police Department.  

Emery Rowe Was Let Go

I don't know if anyone remembers Emery Rowe (or is it Emry?) but he was let go by United Cab after 14 years of service.  It seems he ran over some lady's foot at the Sweet Bay grocery store on Gandy.  

Emery was always a Gandy driver and would never leave that area no matter what changes were going on.  I always believed  that "adapt or parish' is the law of nature. Some people just never get that. 

United Cab does not have a 'blanket policy' on how they make personal decisions. Discretion is the better part of valor.  They take a look at your track record, and go from there.  That was the problem. 

Emery had a long list of customer complaints and accidents going back years.  A couple years ago he hit a jogger on Davis Island that was clearly on the sidewalk.  Now this.  Not good. 

He was a friend of mine (but he could be difficult).  I suspect he was not happy about getting the grocery call and aggravated the situation that led to the accident. 

Oh well, he will probably surface again with Yellow Cab Of Tampa.