QCOSTARICA – Last week, on Tuesday, a taxi driver, near the Registro Civil in Zapote, took out his road rage on a driver who would not let him pass. The taxi driver was identified by Elmundo.cr driving the taxi with plate number TSJ 5524, belonging to the La Guaria company.
The story, as detailed in the complaint filed by the assaulted driver, a man identified only by his last name Echeverria, is that the taxi driver attempted a “daring maneuver” and attacked him when he would not let him.
“The reaction of the (taxi) driver, with a passenger in the car, almost came to blows, when he got out of his car and started insulting me, provoking me into getting out of my car to a fight, when I did not respond, he took it out on my vehicle,” said Echeverria.
According to the OIJ (police) report, the taxi driver unleashed an unbridled fury at the vehicle, causing major damage, kicking at the vehicle and breaking glass.
But the insult for Echeverria did not stop there.
Echeverria says he went to the ARESEP, the government authority regulating public services, including taxis, but was told that they could do nothing about the attack unless he “was using the taxi service.” That is, since he was not a customer of the taxi, he was out of luck with them.
THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST DUMB COUNTRY AND THEY NO LAWS. IT IS THE WILD WILD WEST.
Let me see. So this Taxi cab driver could do all this damage to my car/ house / wound me with glass or a bat, but I was not a CUSTOMER of his YOU CANT DO ANYTHING. HOW DUMB ARE YOU????? THIS SETS A NEW PRESIDENT IN THE LAWS… GOT TO BE A CUSTOMER, IF NOT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER… GO FIGURE.
The article does not say that the police did nothing, only that the outfit that regulates the taxis could do nothing.
If you get into a fight with a bartender outside a bar in which you aren’t a customer, it’s a bit far fetched to imagine the authorities who regulate bars would have any basis to step in on your behalf. Sure, the bar owner might like to know, and if the bartender was out of line may fire him or her, but it’s not up to the bar owners or bar regulating authorities to take sides in a fight on the sidewalk. The proper authorities are the police.
And the police are handling this. I don’t see how this is dumb.
an Uber taxista wouldn’t have done that.