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Old 11-09-2008, 09:10 PM   #1
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Default Taxi meets it's match...

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Happened yesterday in Kings Cross, Sydney... don't know the story, but that's one pretty beaten up cab.

edit: To be honest, this doesn't surprise me considering how frighteningly poorly some Sydney cabbies drive.

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Old 11-09-2008, 09:31 PM   #2
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Epic fail at that!
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Old 11-09-2008, 09:32 PM   #3
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Well, at least it makes the last Fairlane built just that little bit more exclusive.
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Old 11-09-2008, 09:35 PM   #4
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Old 11-09-2008, 09:50 PM   #5
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finding a parking spot in sydney must be getting really hard these days.
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Old 11-09-2008, 09:54 PM   #6
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finding a parking spot in sydney must be getting really hard these days.
The 3rd high res pic looks like he's gotten a ticket cause of it :P
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The 3rd high res pic looks like he's gotten a ticket cause of it :P
That would be the NRMA contractor filling out his paperwork......
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Old 12-09-2008, 09:02 AM   #8
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Christ how the hell do you get your speed up in kings cross to do that sort of damage?! usually its a 10-15km/hr crawl..

WAIT..

It'll buff out!
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Old 12-09-2008, 09:08 AM   #9
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Christ how the hell do you get your speed up in kings cross to do that sort of damage?! usually its a 10-15km/hr crawl..

WAIT..

It'll buff out!
So much for Silver Service taxis
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He was only trying to push the button.
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Old 12-09-2008, 11:36 AM   #11
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I wonder how the hell he did this...

If it was the driver alone...how? You're in the city...you don't speed. There isn't the space, and the volume of traffic is too high. You take it easy.

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Old 12-09-2008, 11:48 AM   #12
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I guess you could call it a "Faillane"...

Sydney parking ranger in force in the last pic.
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I guess you could call it a "Faillane"...

Sydney parking ranger in force in the last pic.
oh god i hate the rangers so much - every time i see one i just wanna walk up behind them, say Hey Buddy! and beat them with a croquet mallet(you know what i mean lol)
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oh god i hate the rangers so much - every time i see one i just wanna walk up behind them, say Hey Buddy! and beat them with a croquet mallet(you know what i mean lol)

So it was you who beat the two rangers up last night!
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Old 12-09-2008, 12:19 PM   #15
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hahaha no no, i was a home in the Gf's arms:
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Old 12-09-2008, 01:28 PM   #16
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Looks like the coolant and radiator needed replacing anyway.
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Old 12-09-2008, 01:48 PM   #17
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where'd the side on damage come from?
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Looks like the coolant and radiator needed replacing anyway.
a perfect opportunity to fit a trans cooler
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Oh nooo, not a fairlane!!!!

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where'd the side on damage come from?
That what i wanna know?
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Old 12-09-2008, 09:56 PM   #20
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i think he stuffed up.
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Old 12-09-2008, 10:21 PM   #21
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where'd the side on damage come from?
That probably came from the signpost he knocked over (check under his rear tyre)

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Best explanation, evar. I laughed so hard I cried.

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Christ how the hell do you get your speed up in kings cross to do that sort of damage?! usually its a 10-15km/hr crawl..
Too many cabbies floor it and jump on the brakes, instead of lightly accelerating (or just rolling forward). Seems he forgot to jump on the brakes.
I nearly shat myself in a cab from Ashfield to Five Dock a few weeks back, this cab driver created a new lane and a new record speed considering the moderate-heavy traffic.
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Old 13-09-2008, 07:38 AM   #22
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The side damage came from a phone booth behind the tree, hit that then into the pole..... work just down the road from there, closed Bayswater Rd in that direction for a while. No idea how he did it, or what we was doing but he was a taxi driver so enough said.

As for wardens, some would try give you one if your stopped at traffic lights some days in the cross if they could. Its a pain moving the car all day......
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The side damages looks to me like the firies might have popped the door with something, probably to get the passenger out. (I used to do that road rescue stuff)
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Old 13-09-2008, 01:31 PM   #24
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I wonder if the meter is still running? :hihi:
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...he was a Sydney taxi driver so enough said.
Fixed.

Honestly, outside of Sydney I've never had a cabbie who's been anything short of great.
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Old 17-09-2008, 08:02 PM   #26
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Thats huge
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Old 17-09-2008, 11:37 PM   #27
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Doesnt matter where you go (especially in melb)there all the same,like this d&^khead i hit in a brand new cab going to get signwritten! :
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It's a good thing there was a Towy nearby lmao
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We cannot use mobiles whilst driving - sending TXT is the WORST form of distraction. As a cab regualr, how i am still here is beyond me. That on baord taxi allocation system thingy would have to be one of the most distracting things in a cab. Some cabbies manage it well - others; well it is up there with SMS.

Just yesterday, a cabbie was repsonding to something..not looking ahead..at the last minute i had to yell at him as the traffic had stopped ahead..lucky no one was in next lane...i almost became theback passanger of the Corolla he would have inserted the Falcon into..
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