Herb Huseland: I just read on AOL news that two guys in New York City hailed a cab and said, “take us to Los Angeles.” The cabbie did just that. A $5000 fare compared to about $1000 by air didn’t deter these guys. They claimed they were sick and tired of being strip searched in airports, sitting in crowded aircraft where even peanuts aren’t free anymore. I remember a similar situation where another driver (when I was a cda cabbie) had a woman hire him to take her from Coeur d’Alene to Seattle.
Question: When did you last ride in a cab? How fare? What was the fare?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
Herb Huseland: I just read on AOL news that two guys in New York City hailed a cab and said, “take us to Los Angeles.” The cabbie did just that. A $5000 fare compared to about $1000 by air didn’t deter these guys. They claimed they were sick and tired of being strip searched in airports, sitting in crowded aircraft where even peanuts aren’t free anymore. I remember a similar situation where another driver (when I was a cda cabbie) had a woman hire him to take her from Coeur d’Alene to Seattle.
