Race Tension Behind Taxi Brawl at Airport, Say Drivers
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Herald-Sun (Melbourne), June 06, 2008
RACIAL tension may have been behind a brawl this week when taxi drivers turned on each other outside a Tullamarine cafe.
Up to 30 drivers, some brandishing weapons, spilled onto Melrose Drive from the Melrose Lounge, a witness said.
A 25-year-old man was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with a cut above his eye, bruising and swelling.
It was initially suggested the fight was between Sudanese and Indian drivers.
However, other witnesses said the fight began between a Somalian driver and an Indian driver before mushrooming into a brawl between Indians and drivers from various African nations.
A leader in the recent taxi protests in Melbourne’s CBD told 3AW the fight was sparked when an Indian driver tried to skip the queue.
“The Indian driver tried to jump the queue, and one of the Somalian drivers said, ‘You can’t jump the queue, you have to do the right thing, this is wrong’, and they started fighting.”
Other taxi drivers and airport staff claimed racial tensions were often evident at the airport rank, with queue-jumping enough to spark mass arguments and violence.
Taxi driver Nabjot Gall said the fight broke out just before 8pm Wednesday.
Drivers used carjacks as weapons and one man was smashed in the face, he said.
“The fight went on and got bigger and bigger,” he said.
An Australia Federal Police officer confirmed members attended a “minor” incident at the cafe, but refused to comment further.
(Posted on June 11, 2008)
Comments
Diversity! Ain’ it grand? Australia NEEDS more third-world primitives. And best of all, the MORE third-worlders come to Australia, the more these ugly scenes will repeat.
Posted by Fed Up at 5:45 PM on June 11
In this case, I would believe the Somalis side of the story.
Any one who has observed Indians closely knows this to be a valid complaint. More than a few Indians are clever cheaters.
The Somalis are straight shooters because they are not clever enough to be otherwise.
Posted by at 6:25 PM on June 11
Radical multicults probably reveal their greatest naivete by being unaware that non-whites fight with each other much more than they fight with whites.
Were they ever to achieve their perfect multicultural utopia it would be rife with inter-tribal warfare among non-white elements.
Every good military strategist knows full well that the most effective way to destroy a nation non-militarily is to multiculturalize it.
Posted by at 6:50 PM on June 11
AHHHHH Diversity in ALL ITS GLORY.
Posted by Enough at 7:04 PM on June 11
As long as they don’t rape White Australian women. Isn’t India known as the rape capital of the world. And as for the Sudanese the only part of the koran they know is that “the faithful may have sex with any woman he has control over”, such as being trapped in his cab.
Posted by at 8:03 PM on June 11
Our “africans” in America can’t get along with anyone either. Gee, must be all the fault of those “racist whites”, huh?
Posted by at 11:51 PM on June 11
No actually the honor of rape capital goes to the diverse paradise South Africa
Posted by dav at 12:35 AM on June 12
This is not a surprise to me. In South Africa I saw many Indians who clearly showed their hatred towards blacks. The words they used to describe blacks could make a redneck humble. What people don’t seem to realize is that other races can be racist too. Indians are a very racist people.
Posted by Ben D. at 12:42 AM on June 12
When I was in Oz, I found the foreign cab drivers to be sullen jerks that would run up the fare and cheat you if they could.
I personally came a hair from beating the bejesus out of vietnamese or some such for that very reason. He thought he was going to cheat me out of seventy five bucks and I got out of his cab and walked away without paying. When he got out and started threatening me, I turned, gave him a sound cursing and proceeded to advance upon him very quickly and aggressively. I meant businees. The last I saw of him, he was going sideways down the street burning rubber with his door still open. A cheering crowd of Aussies spirited me out of the area in case the police arrived.
If you can find one, I STRONGLY recommend a WHITE AUSTRALIAN cabbie. They were the only ones that were honest and knew what they were doing……
Sad to say, Australia’s politicians are almost certainly going to ruin one of the last great cohesive nations.
Posted by James at 12:45 AM on June 12
Radical multicults probably reveal their greatest naivete by being unaware that non-whites fight with each other much more than they fight with whites.
The various minority groups tend to hate each other. White multicultists don’t care though because they don’t promote multiculturalism for the minorties’ benefit; they do it to prove their own moral purity. It’s actually very cruel to the minority groups themselves to invite them into an environment where they’ll experience daily anger and frustration as the only people who tend to like them (or at least put on a good show pretending to) are white multicult morons — and yet these sort of multicult morons (like the couple in the article that named their kid “Osiris”) are precisely the ones that minorities find decadent and ridiculous and are thoroughly unimpressed by; every other minority group won’t like them (except closely associated ones) and neither will the majority of the white majority. The result is exasperation and frustration for all involved. But you’ll wait an eternity for the multicultist doofuses to admit to any of this.
Posted by Michael T at 12:47 AM on June 12
When I was in Oz, I found the foreign cab drivers to be sullen jerks that would run up the fare and cheat you if they could.
In Kuwait it is the same thing with Indian and Sri Lankan taxi pilots trying to intimidate American contractors. They get out of the cab raising hell and usually get what they want. ME!! I speak pretty good Arabic and tell them to call the police or I ask the apartment manager to call the police at which time, without fail! the driver would race away not even collecting the fare at all. Cheating by taxi drivers in Kuwait is a SERIOUS offense in the Kuwait legal system and results in the deportation of the driver IMMEDIATELY after he is released from prison hahahahah ALL TRUE, I spend much time in Kuwait. Immigrants, legal or not, FEAR the police there.
Posted by Skip at 3:05 AM on June 12
I’ve known few Asian Indians who indentified with blacks. In fact, they considered it a deadly insult to call them black. This story doesn’t surprize me in the least.
Posted by Sardonicus at 9:39 AM on June 12
“I’ve known few Asian Indians who indentified with blacks. In fact, they considered it a deadly insult to call them black.”
In Malaysia, Orientals will call indians ‘blacks’ as an insult if they get mad enough at them. I’m not sure if I just insulted Indians there or blacks, or Orientals, but that’s true. I shouldn’t keep such stereo-types alive by repeating them though.
Posted by Mr. Pibb at 12:52 PM on June 12
I see I said “indentified” rather than identified in my last post. It should read: “I’ve known few Asian Indians who identified with blacks.” I might add that the few Indians I’ve known who did embrace black culture were either Americans of Indian origin or leftist liberal graduate students. I’m not sure that this is the same in formerly Great Britain, but I suspect that it is.
Posted by Sardonicus at 3:49 PM on June 12
One of my policies is never to get into a cab driven by someone I wouldn’t allow in my home, and I always ignore the “queue” because I believe that receiving my business is a priviledge and not a right.
My second-to-the-last last cab driver took me from my old flat in Randwick to the Sydney airport. He was a charming Danish fellow, and could actually understand my Austrian-accented German.
I believe the Somalis are probably right in their accusations in this case, but I don’t care. They’re the fun cabbies who refuse to take blind people with seeing-eye dogs, which is despicable.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 2:29 AM on June 13