BREAKING NEWS: The days of getting too-drunk-to-NOT-get-a-cab-home are fruitful yes, at least for the man with the gun.
We've recently learned that over the past couple of weeks there have been at least four cases of robbery by cab. Two last weekend alone. Center City and University City are the targeted areas and all have occurred during the weekend between 2 and 3am.
See what happens is the cabbie will have a dude in the front seat with him. They'll drive you for a minute, then the guy ridding shotgun pulls out his.. shotgun (oh, I get it) and holds you up. Shitty, yes. More shitty, they drive you to an ATM and force you to drain your bank account.
Thankfully, so far no one has been harmed. After taking everything you have, they will drop your party off in different areas of the city. (This kind of sounds like the beginning of Road Rules now.)
Apparently the word is out all over Philly's campus communities. Yet has been pretty slow to leak out into the non-geek world. Obvious advice, hail a cab that only has one driver. And, maybe skip last call girl, really.
Story sent in by Skye Ruozzi
2 comments:
If anything, this makes me WANT to take cabs EVERYWHERE with all of my good friends for at least the next few weeks until this guy is caught. I mean... if you really think about it, they could be secretly filming you for some kind of new reality show called "SHOTGUN!" Oh man. Yeah. That's gotta be it. I wonder if we could somehow send a "shout-out" to this dude via "the media" and request that he make the whole experience more fun and excitiing by let's say --- before dropping you off in your designated part of the city, perhaps he could give each person a treasure map. Then he will explain that first, you must find one another by using primitive navigation techniques. Once you find each other, you will be given a set of clues that will eventually lead you to the "treasure," which of course will turn out to be YOUR MONEY. Then the guys will jump out of the darkness and say something totally cornball and showbiz and you'll all have a good chuckle.
Just a suggestion.
this makes me want to hail cabs for people in old city.
"and there you are sir....uh yes thats right...go eagles..."
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