Archived Give a Drunk (or Anyone) a Free Ride Home on New Year's Eve, Accept a Tip, Face $500 Fine (reason.com)
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Archived Give a Drunk (or Anyone) a Free Ride Home on New Year's Eve, Accept a Tip, Face $500 Fine (reason.com)
submitted ago by FreeSpeachRocks
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[–] PM_me_your_mitts 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Doesn't make much sense. You want to help people!!?? You had better be willing to pay the government their dues...
Thanks government.
[–] Invisible32 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Doing our best to emulate the Chinese strategy of dealing with helpful people.
[–] CatNamedJava 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
Don't accept payment than.
[–] PM_me_your_mitts 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
If people tip you for being awesome... I still see no reason for it to be an issue. It's like instances where your friend helps you out and you give them a $5 for gas or get them something small as a token of appreciation.
Also, I suppose it just pisses me off that they would leave it up to shitty taxi services and other such things that are probably going to be overwhelmed, instead of letting people help other people. Government just doesn't need to get involved...
[–] Amateur_Wizard 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Who will know?
[–] CathyTheGreatsHorse 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
The undercover cop pretending to be drunk.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
[–] Mal-2 ago
If he hadn't applied for permission first, then there wouldn't be anything for undercover cops to target. This operation wouldn't have been on their radar before, and it wasn't going to show up on their radar in a single night.
[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The Free Staters are doing an awesome job of publicizing government hypocrisy.
[–] Setnal 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You don't accept the tip, but if they just happen to have money fall out of their pocket on to the floor of the car and no one notices...
[–] LongDuckDong 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
With every donation to the (insert drivers name) gasoline fund, you get a free ride home.
So maybe not this idea, but there is probably a way to replace payment with donation.
[–] WhoToldYouThat ago
That wasn't a tip. It was a gift. Loophole, bitches.
[–] Tb0n3 ago
Fucking Taxi Gestapo will get you.
[–] Totenglocke 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
What a shock, a liberal state in the northeast that hates freedom.