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Originally Posted by davestlouis
The family of the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who killed himself in a DUI-related wreck want to sue the bar that offered him a cab as he was walking out the door, he declined, said he was walking to a nearby hotel...again, who is the bad guy here?
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Once in Seattle, driving cab, got a call just at bar break -- few minutes before 2 am -- the bartender had called a cab for a drunk and belligerent dude. The guy's virtually ignoring me, walks out of the bar, I'm telling him that I'm the cabbie sent for him. He just gives me a dirty look. Walks to his car and fumbles for keys. Guy is too drunk to drive, at least on any sane register.
I tell him, OK, you owe me $2 dismissal fee (this was early 80s, late 70s maybe). The guy says FU. I repeat my demand a few times, same response.
Something rubbed me the wrong way about this. I positioned myself so that nothing was behind him, in a straight line between me and him (didn't want to hurt him too bad) and shoved the hell out of him while hooking one of his feet with mine.
As my old man would have said, he went flying a$$ over teakettle. A bit violent on my part but what else could I do? I didn't have the legal right to stop him from driving. Maybe I should have taken his keys. Oh well, dude had a few bruises to think about, anyway.