taxi drivers are on the road almost 12 hours a day. day or night you can see them, can they help to report on suspicious activity like those in Jakarta?
We care less who we take.as long as he is not dangerous n pay his fare .whether he look like Osama or Obama.we couldn't care less
Cabbies already get terrorized by teenagers who run fare or beat them, drunks at Clarke Boat (CB) quay who vomit and order cabbies around disrespectful.
Al Qaeda came and gone, Jamaah Islamiyah so quiet not sure if they changed employer. ISIS is getting pursued by even bigger international gangsters aka US and PAP, who got better weapons and financing. Why worry so much? If I see a mysterious package, I will be betting its got many $1000 bills inside, not bombs lah... But if it was a bomb, i will be sent to my final destination, which is also a good thing.
report simi? mana wu eng for all tis?
drive taxi already so stress
business also not so gd
calls kena makan by pte taxi
bo eng la bo eng la
just now after mid night i went to airport
pick up two persons (arrived from Japan)
one is confirm female, the other one talks like male but long hair and pretty
i very confused
Originally posted by Pandanchen:taxi drivers are on the road almost 12 hours a day. day or night you can see them, can they help to report on suspicious activity like those in Jakarta?
Taxi drivers were pre-screened by LTA and attended a course thereby we were orientated about certain kinds of suspicious activities by potential terrorists.
Also Comfort taxi drivers often receive messages on their MDTs to help police look out for suspicious cars (with specific number plate numbers) or missing people in Singapore. Effectively, the police have the entire operational fleet of Comfort taxis (16000-17000) looking out for suspicious cars on top of their own patroling fleets.
Jurong Island is probably the only place whereby terrorist attack could affect Singapore in a big way but security is so tight there such that only pre-screened escorted potential big investors, delivery drivers, taxi drivers, military personnels on duty, security guards and people working there could enter. The moment the thumbprint record is not found in their database even if the passenger has an employee pass, the passenger is barred from entering. They also perform random thumbprint checks on taxi drivers who have to temporarilly surrender an ID every we enter. Every vehicle entering is throughtly checked to ensure that no big amount of explosives could be smuggled in. Don't know whether they relaxed their policy to allow Uber and GrabCar vehicles to enter.
Originally posted by Pandanchen:just now after mid night i went to airport
pick up two persons (arrived from Japan)
one is confirm female, the other one talks like male but long hair and pretty
i very confused
You don't care who the passengers are, LTA's regulation is you cannot reject customers. But if it is these scenarios, you could cover your ass and not lose your taxi license: change-shift period, don't know how to go there, did not understand where customer wants to go to, customers look as though going to rob or rape you, customers going to exceed seat capacity of 4 adults or they request to go to places like cemetery in the middle or the night or require you to wait at cemetery for long periods of time (more than just drop customer there), no money (local currency) to pay type, drunk person who could anytime vomit (and cause you to have to clean and lose money (time wasted) to get rid of smell) or want you to wait a long time type before starting meter (when not on call).
Whether he/she is prostitute, gigalo, pimp, Ah Kua, Bangala, maid, old/handicapped , foreigner, from ruling party, from opposition party or gay, you still have to fetch them if you stopped to talk to him/her.
You will never know.......
TD who had attended the refresher course will watch this video on taxi bomb in India.......
Mai sway sway pick a terrorist and bring you to Holland together with him.......
Originally posted by Keepthechange666:You will never know.......
TD who had attended the refresher course will watch this video on taxi bomb in India.......
Mai sway sway pick a terrorist and bring you to Holland together with him.......
Would not be one.....terrorist also not stupid as bombs cost money to build......must have some real objectives/benefits for doing so and must be worth it to do one.
All the embassies and high comms of countries with many enemies do not allow taxis to be driven near the main building (explosion also would not affect building structure places) like British High Comm.
Even if got such terrorist, you worry also cannot help or improve the situation.....so wiser not to worry otherwise would age damn fast.
Originally posted by Neutral-Thinker:Would not be one.....terrorist also not stupid as bombs cost money to build......must have some real objectives/benefits for doing so and must be worth it to do one.
All the embassies and high comms of countries with many enemies do not allow taxis to be driven near the main building (explosion also would not affect building structure places) like British High Comm.
Even if got such terrorist, you worry also cannot help or improve the situation.....so wiser not to worry otherwise would age damn fast.
Now those siao ding tong don't target Goberment building liao, any crowded place also can do le.......
Shopping mall, temple, cafe........
Taxi can't go to all this places?........
Originally posted by Keepthechange666:Now those siao ding tong don't target Goberment building liao, any crowded place also can do le.......
Shopping mall, temple, cafe........
Taxi can't go to all this places?........
If load a lot of explosives into taxi boot you sure know one.
If only one bag of explosives, cannot damage shopping mall.... I cannot think of scenario whereby they could damage cafe and temple via taxi.
Good mah. Now got new excuse not to fetch taiko pax. Just tell DRO the man or woman pax look like terrorist, so cabby got frightened and drove off.
Originally posted by bowah:Last time I sent the death to JB, not much checking, within 15 minutes, all clear…now..knn 1 hour, still checking..lagi got X-ray the body.,..sia.
I think now the security at both side had gone up.
As for TDs, I do think taxis as a public transport, do pose a danger and be used by terrorists, not that they ask the taxi to drive, they might kill or knock off the Driver and drive themselve posing as TD. That will be very dangerous.
And that is why the other day, my beautiful lau Goh…Dro called me to be wary of any suspicious people like terrorist…
..then I replied, PRC chicks, I can recognise, How lian foreign an nehs or expatriate, I can recognize..local ah pek, ah mah, ah lian, ah huay, ah kow, ah send, ah beng, johnny, benny, lucy…no problem for me…but how to recognise a Terrorist, knn cdg siao si bo….she keeps quiet.
Knock off TD still cannot smuggle a lot of explosives into Jurong Island, British High Comm or Marina Sands Bay Car Park.
If really want to put lots of bombs into vehicle, they are better off getting a free covered up all the way van.
Worry also not use, cannot prevent one if going to happy why worry and make yourself age faster.
If going to happen, they tie you up and put you one place so that they could put in more explosives in.
It is not like people robbing TD whereby you could put your excess money elsewhere so that you do not seem like carrying a lot of money (most TDs would have at least $150 at the end of their shifts).
Originally posted by bowah:If there is will, there is a way, remember 9/11….who piloted the planes??
That one different....got big rich Mastermind. He knew he would benefit from the attack so he ordered it. He sold his shares just before the attack and then bought a lot after the stock markets plunged thereby making huge profits.
Stealing one taxi and parking it in one underground carpark to explode would not bring down the stock market.
...Not if you parked it at SGX Centre carpark....
Singapore has poured plenty of investment into our country's security, policing weapons, cctv, cyber security tools and varied kinds of police training. Whether SPF is able to foil them or not will be a good test of how well they are able to gather intelligence and use it to stop crime. If our police forces fail and ISIS manages to terrorise people, I am sure LHL will personally chop a few heads. This is a small country afterall, and our armed forces and police forces surely are better equipped and well trained than some stupid suicide bomber, especially those insane ones thinking there are virgins waiting for them after death?
Ai yah, little india was a warming up. Many obesers kooning for too long, forgot how to fight. I expect round two to be an improvement. Otherwise LHL will personally chop a few heads and dicks off. I always believe, if a male police saw a riot and ran away, he better stand at changi village or rowell road and suck ah neh dicks for a living.
Originally posted by Taxilim88:...Not if you parked it at SGX Centre carpark....
If they want to attack SGX Centre, they would steal a van ....and I believe only employees there could park there (but I am not sure about it).
Originally posted by bowah:yalor, actually explosion would bring or not bring down the market is one issue, the other issue is that when terrorist strike, it will bring lost of confident and instill fear into investor and public at large, just imaging a bomb set off at Raffles MRT at peak period, it is enuf to send shock wave and can bring fragile country like Singapore economy to it knee.
So it is not a matter of how much the explosion can damage the surrounding but the sentiment that follow can be diseasterous. As a country like us without any natural resources, once investors lost confident in us, we only got HDB walls to face, no potatos nor even a cucumber.
This one I am not afraid as it would not affect most of the other sectors unlike 911 attack which destroyed many financial offices in NYC including Singapore's EDB branch there.
The worst-case-scenario of a bomb at Raffles MRT is the people working there has to use Tanjong Pagar MRT instead.
Also all active combat units in SAFs would be on standby. Some reservist units may be activated too.
Only a plane hitting UOB Plaza and another plane hitting DBS tower would cause investors to lose confidence.
Aiya, just help to look out lor, what so difficult?......
Than you pick up 2 ah neh, keep taking photo behind your taxi, ask them lor, "Hey! You terrorist?".......
Pick up 2 PRC asking you to drive around Orchard Road, ask them lor, "Hey! ä½ æ��怖份å�?".......
Open mouth, don't keep quiet......