The Malaysian taxi driver is the front-liner to any visitor to our country. And 2014 is also, for the umpteen time "Visit Malaysia Year", no ? I have written about the these fleecing disgrace more then once in this here blog already ( please do your own search on the blogpost-roll ). But the latest story by NAM ( read the story here ) is absolutely shocking and takes corruption to new heights !
This corruption and exploitation by these cash rich Middle Eastern Arabs has to be nibbed immediately. Or are we far too gone that it has become impossible and finally has become a "way of life" for us tax-paying Malaysians too ? Is it because these bandits from Middle East know of our every weakness in our government system that they can so easily manipulate, corrupt and put in place this "taxi" driver racket which firstly these rogue Arabs give a freaking rats ass as to our reputation as a favourite destination for all travellers who come to enjoy our hospitality, climate, diverse cultures and religions ( this, I'm not sure anymore lah....ever since that Allah issue and the "ketuanan" shit by UMNO !) and our simple way of life and contagious smiles !
Its a bad enough experience to control our own crooked taxi drivers and are yet to "arrest" the hundreds of complaints by tourist against the many wrongs of these cheating and cut-throat taxi drivers. Did you know that we are the only country where, when after the insistence by you, to put the fare-meter on, the taxi driver will then ask you if you can direct him to YOUR destination !
Now we have an added burden of having to deal with Middle Eastern cab drivers who'd liken to treat us real Malaysians like shit thinking we ARE tourists too !
The resposibility is in the issuance of such taxi permits by the authority. When the head in the ministry is corrupted and self-serving, we cannot blame the down-lines to be angels, can we ? These Middle Eastern or Arabs will do cart-wheels to make an extra buck. Remember these syndicates use "students" to drive cabs in the ever popular Arab Square area in Bukit Bintang, the pulse of the city. These Middle Eastern taxi drivers will never understand our way of life. For them it is survival for the fittest. They come here with big hopes and dreams to our land of milk and honey. They are from a region where killing and bombing their neighbour is their everyday way of life.
Just what have we become into people ? Its hard to maintain our sanity in what's going on around us anymore. Prices of everything that you need as essentials has gone through the roof. The pm is maintaining his elegant silence and only Rosie knows where he is. The entire government is on "auto-pilot" and we're on a roller-coaster ride going downhill in neck-breaking speed and on rail-tracks with loose nuts and bolts. Cries of the rakyat is falling on deaf ears. The parliament is a joke. The players even worse.
We have become a famous "must visit" hub and safe haven for the "spring" political asylum seekers, drug traffickers, black money dealers, "martyrs" or terrorists on-transit, religious militant cell-hideout and internet-scammers. And now these taxi driving Arabs !
Do we actually have to spend more money to advertise on VMY 2014 ? They are all already here for as long as you care to remember ! Can they give us a break please ?
*Special thanks to Danapal for the link. Cheers !
**As for the title of this post, you might still remember that famous line from the DeNiro classic "Taxi Driver".
3 comments:
Surprisingly I felt very safe when I was in Yangon from 10th to 14th Feb 2014. I dont feel the same when I am back in KL.
What is that fat ex army general who is the chief enforcement honcho of SPAD doing about this? This is what happens when you put dead wood like like Syed Albar and this general in charge of SPAD. FIY the fat bugger once ran away leaving his soldirers behind in an ambush!!
If you dont want drastice serious comments then dont have the comment option!!!!
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