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Cabbies Ask for Vomit Penalty

Chicago drivers want messy drunks to pay $50

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 24, 2009 3:36 PM CDT

(Newser) – Chicago cab drivers want drunk passengers who vomit in their cars to pay a $50 fine. Drivers today asked the city for the penalty along with an overall rate increase of 22%. Chicago cabbies are among the lowest paid in the country, with wages averaging $4.38 an hour over their 13-hour shifts, the Tribune reports. And that’s assuming no one throws up in the back seat, said George Lutfallah, who represented the drivers before the council.

“If someone throws up in the back of a cab, it’s no laughing matter to the cab driver, who now has to take two hours to detail the cab,” he said.

He may want to boot before he hops in a cab.
He may want to boot before he hops in a cab.   (Getty Images)
A Chicago taxicab is pictured in this undated file photo.
A Chicago taxicab is pictured in this undated file photo.   (Wikimedia Commons/Oliver Aumage)
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hamsammichs
Oct 23, 2009 4:19 AM CDT
Could we just not roll down the window? I would be lying if I said I've never puked out of a moving vehicle before. It's a rather simple solution.
youngblood
Sep 24, 2009 9:19 AM CDT
I live in NYC and cab drivers are very hardworking people and most of them are very clean and decent people and it's no secret that it's a very dangerous job, every year there are cab drivers getting killed, shot in the back of the head while on the job. I say give them the raise!
Dr.Y.Dino
Sep 24, 2009 9:19 AM CDT
Chicago cabbies make less than half minimum wage?? Where's the SEIU?

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