Comments on: Intoxicated Female Walks Away From Taxi Fare https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: aceboy https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779698 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:42:53 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779698 There is no justification for getting in a cab and then walking away from a fare. The colour of this woman’s skin doesn’t factor into the discussion. Wrong is wrong.

]]> By: ann https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779494 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:47:40 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779494 First intelligent comment!

]]> By: Mockingjay https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779493 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:47:05 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779493 So what if I walk in a shop drunk and get a loaf of bread for $6 and tell the cashier I paid for it and walk out.

]]> By: c https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779480 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:31:50 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779480 and they wonder why people drink and drive…

]]> By: boss https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779406 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:33:01 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779406 Like stealing a miniature from the liquor store or a small item from the grocer – those folk get placed before a judge and sentenced – she needs to be treated in the same manner…

]]> By: boss https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779403 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:30:30 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779403 She was drunk and committed a crime – I wonder if you have the same views when an out of work mother steals a loaf of bread and is placed before a judge and sentenced?

]]> By: boss https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779396 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:28:05 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779396 I can only imagine that they think Bermuda is an expensive destination – maybe that ReInsurance execs pay over the top for everything and it has something to do with it.. just maybe…

]]> By: JUNK YARD DOG https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779359 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:59:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779359 Let them walk it off .

Taxi drivers run the risk of a drunk passenger throwing up in the taxi.

]]> By: RoseAnn https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779327 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:36:07 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779327 Something like Uber is on the Island.
Driver should submit bill to CADA
Drunk female without money should not CADA free rides exist

]]> By: Huricane https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779227 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:03:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779227 Absolutely not! And make no apology for it

]]> By: Mockingjay https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779180 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:28:32 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779180 @ Paul Revere its called White Color crime, no pun intended.

]]> By: Mockingjay https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779177 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:23:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779177 @ Self, would you have the same sentiment if it were a Black girl from Parsons Road ?

]]> By: MAKE MY DAY https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779142 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:47:16 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779142 It might have been a good act on her part as well!!

]]> By: MAKE MY DAY https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779140 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:46:09 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779140 She was NOT that *HOT*…. Because she sure knew how to getaway in a hurry!! She had NO intentions of paying in the first place or looked in her purse and saw that it was empty!!

]]> By: Cardine Alice https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779126 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:32:06 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779126 Use Über all the time. Quite reasonanble and if you can’t afford them take a night bus.

]]> By: filobedo21 https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779125 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:31:10 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779125 I’ve not read all posts, but surely BPS should be viewing the tapes at The Beach, along with the taxi driver to locate this woman.

]]> By: Cardine Alice https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779124 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:31:04 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779124 If you really want to waste police time allow me some legal advice – she lacked capacity to commit an offence if you are seriously suggesting theft. Of course you aren’t. What happenede to the special get people home safely campaign that used to operate at 3am or something ?

]]> By: Cardine Alice https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2779118 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:28:30 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2779118 Dolla. Not concerned about a clearly incapable, intoxicated, vulnerable young woman at all. Shameful.

]]> By: onray balzac https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778659 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 04:24:23 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778659 Did you just mention Rebecca Middleton?!?! Bie take several seats!

]]> By: Onion Soup https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778566 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:29:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778566 What I would like to know is if the taxi driver or the police or, for that matter most of the people commenting here, were or are even remotely concerned about the safety of an intoxicated young woman wandering alone around Harbour Road at 1 a.m. I find it quite remarkable, and not in a good way, that that concern has not been raised.

]]> By: Chingas https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778560 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:21:28 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778560 hm…so you are saying an Uber would have costed $63? I highly doubt it, Uber may have surge pricing but surely not that degree…Would be interesting if something of Ubers’ nature was introduced to the island…

]]> By: bi https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778556 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:17:09 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778556 Have you seen some of our cabbies? The guy that I call is at least 80. Some guys probably should not work midnights but they have to.

]]> By: O'Brien https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778538 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:37:36 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778538 Technically, no. Robbery involves the use of force, or threat thereof. If she did as alleged, it’s plain and simple theft.

]]> By: enough https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778466 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:39:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778466 It would be my guess, because it happens a lot, that the driver kept the meter running while he/she waited for either the woman to come and pay or the police to arrive. Not sure of the lagality of doing that, but I’d bet that was why the fare was so high.

]]> By: Coffee https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778451 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:19:08 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778451 She needs to be punished .

]]> By: Next https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778443 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:09:00 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778443 I’m sorry but the way this story is written I find this hilarious and the comments aren’t helping. How slow was he that he couldn’t keep up with a drunk chick in heels?

]]> By: somuchless https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778439 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:01:45 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778439 Lol but you know what rob I meant.

]]> By: Tisk https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778433 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:55:44 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778433 Ace girl walked away drunk and the cabbie just sat there? Thats a little fishy if you ask me.

]]> By: mixitup https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778402 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:19:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778402 Ahhhh. she did rob him

]]> By: Whistling Frog https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778397 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:10:51 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778397 I was told that women don’t need money when they go out to drink.

]]> By: MB https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778376 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:38:45 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778376 Yes well where were the taxi drivers for Rebecca Middleton???System hasn’t changed since!
I think some SMART ‘bloggers’ here are trying to point out some VERY serious and legitimate concerns about the taxi industry in Bermuda I don’t consider that ‘disrespectful’. Are doctors and nurses and police patting themselves on the back for the lives saved. Dont think so. It’s their job. You might not be part of the problem here I agree but are you part of the solution?

]]> By: Taxi teed https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778371 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:36:04 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778371 Okay Terry, your Dad did, but would you? BTW Menu Prices and Alcohol usually costs more at night as well. Why shouldn’t a taxi ride cost more.

]]> By: Dark Star https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778361 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:23:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778361 $31 from the Beach to Burnt House hill——-did they stop at ice queen or something? go look at the cameras

]]> By: Hurricane https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778346 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:00:49 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778346 The prices of everything here is ridiculous. Dose that mean we don’t have to pay for anything? Duhhhhhhhh

]]> By: Hurricane https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778343 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:52:02 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778343 I would hope that they would be more concerned about “the almighty dollar”. If she want to drink, so be it; just pay up.

]]> By: Charlly X https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778341 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:47:02 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778341 Nailed it !!! @Wisdom B.M !! Not knowing all the facts and commenting is pure gossip. !! The fare to that location directly from Hamilton is less , he had been waiting for her to pay . No one knows exactly what really happened . And if you agree to the goods and service you have to pay .. If you are questioning a fare in a taxi ask the driver for a receipt and call TCD that simple . If you don’t like his/her behavior take the number of the vehicle , ask for a receipt report it to TCD simple ! Just like any other complaints you take them to management ! Laws need to be beefed up for people who abuse taxi drivers period ! Such as fare dogggers ! Throwing up in the taxi ! If you can pay for drinks , you can pay to get home !! The smell of human secretions pee ,Vomit and poop !! Doesn’t leave fast like the person WHO did it in the taxi ! The vomit dribbling out the window all along the car ! The smell The Smell !! The time it takes to clean it out/off thoroughly who’s paying n who’s loozing money !! Sorry didn’t don’t n won’t ! Pay my bills !! Can you go to the supermarket, gas stations and say I only have ten when the bill is twelve or thirty when the bill is forty ! Smh smh ! Drivers have to pay bills just like passengers !!

]]> By: Ann https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778328 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:29:37 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778328 Why don’t you go out there and drive drunk people home in your car????? There was a bus that used to run, but taxis were never free. Life is not free and I’m getting so tired of people thinking someone else should pay for them. If anything the bars should for letting people get so drunk!

]]> By: somuchless https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778322 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:23:21 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778322 Looking at the bright side. At least she didn’t try to rob him or beat him up.

]]> By: Ann https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778308 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:07:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778308 These comments are disturbing! The girl OWES for her cab fare, the cab driver needs money as well, she obviously had enough to go out and get loaded! Would you want to be a cab driver out there after midnight, I wouldn’t the way these people act lately!

]]> By: Mixitup https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778297 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:54:03 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778297 You really beleive people want to read all that ^^^ gosh, I know it’s Sunday but you can’t be that bored.

]]> By: Terry https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778293 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:51:47 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778293 And your point is what.
Are you a Taxi driver?
A good citizen?
We all do good deeds.

]]> By: Mixitup https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778288 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:48:37 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778288 The difference between night and day you ask? Go back and read the story… Note the time of day. That’s the difference between night and day, foolishness like this.

]]> By: Bermy Bud https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778278 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:36:38 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778278 I thought taxi rides from front street were free after a certain time on weekends? Just another greedy ambassador on our island! SMH!!

]]> By: Wisdom before madness https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778271 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:27:30 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778271 Just reading your comment as the last in this furry of very damaging society of disrespectful bloggers. This came to mind just as I was thinking of all the lives the taxi industry has saved. The same time this young lady was evading the hard working taxi driver, I observed a young man getting on his bike in Hamiton. After a few minuets of advising him to take a cab along with others person trying to persuade him that he was not sober ride his motor cycle.. On top of that he was watching the police that was park near his bike move off ,this young man dicided to get on his bike and ride home. No longer after this I picked up a passenger and just so happen to come across the same young man being help out of the road at Crow lane and Jonny Barnes location. This young man near killed himself at a hotspot were many other have passed away due to the frequent accident spot. On top of that if you think this is just a made up story look down there at the bus stop the bike is there as I write (crow lane bus shelter) . Now having said that is $32.00 dollar still expensive as the life of this young person/ or should the small price of taken good advice prevail. It so damaging when people who sit behind the computer and write foolishness and brainwashing comment not realizing that the young children are reading and believing there crazy misleading comment. Just take a minute out to think about your love one child,sibling ,nephew,nieces, take cheap advise that I have read on this topic. So they decide to drive after drinking or walking 3 plus miles in the dark of the night , only to run into the danger out there voucher ready to pounce on this young lady. Then you read about a whole other story of cruel people taken advantage of a young lady walking home after spending her money at a bar feed poison at $12 buck a drink x 3= $36.. Now how would that feel when you the blogger have train the youth to think so irresponsible. Think first write responsibly.. Life is more precious then money..funeral cost, hospital ICU.cost and the law after you get caught drinking and driving cost..you need to think before writing foolish comment unless your recovering from a hard night of drinking then you maybe excused until you sober up. Bermuda we need to look at all matter with better judgment and order if you want to be helpful in society .. The world is already in a turmoil be a positive respectful blogger it goes along way to helping the ills of the world..

]]> By: somuchless https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778257 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:13:16 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778257 I think she hopped out and clicked her heals and vanished lol

]]> By: Raw Onion https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778254 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:06:36 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778254 Whether the fare was $5 or $50, she has to pay it. The second you set foot in a cab you make a agreement that you will pay what is on the meter upon reaching your destination. She wasn’t being cheated by the driver (unless he had the meter on the wrong rate which I have seen some drivers do) so she must pay up.
The fine from the courts will be much higher and her reputation will be that of a thief.
If the next day she realized she goofed up, come clean with the police, find the driver and pay him and I’m sure the charges will be dropped.

]]> By: Creamy https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778252 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:03:05 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778252 No. I was referring to the “I wouldn’t have paid either” type of comments.

]]> By: Raw Onion https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778245 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:57:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778245 Uber would have cost you twice as much.

]]> By: Terry https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778242 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:56:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778242 Yes.
My Father did it for 40 years.

]]> By: Tommy Pickles https://bernews.com/2015/02/police-5/#comment-2778238 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:52:38 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=366875#comment-2778238 i assume you are a friends of hers lol..

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