Taxi driver attacks comrade at DAP

[watty]

I can't figure out where it happened inside the airport.  Looks like he's a goner!

Taxi man called other cabbie ‘Irish scumbag’ and lunged with knife

A taxi driver lunged at another cabbie with a butter knife, called him an “Irish scumbag” and threatened to cut his throat in a row over spaces at a rank at Dublin Airport.   Chukwemeka Amaeze (54) ranted that he was going to kill the other cabbie who had passed him out while he was stopped. His defence said he had the knife for cutting his lunch, was “taken aback by what happened” and “didn’t react in the best way”.  Judge Treasa Kelly adjourned the case at Dublin District Court for a restorative justice report.  Mr Amaeze, a father-of-five from The Riverside, Ryebridge, Kilcock, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty to producing a knife in the course of a dispute.

The court heard the two taxi drivers were working at the airport on September 21 last year.  Mr Amaeze was parked when the victim overtook him. The accused sped up so he could get back in front and not lose his place in the queue.  As they got to the holding area, Mr Amaeze swung around to try to get back in front of the victim, causing him to jam on his brakes.  The victim had passengers on board at the time.  The accused got out and called the other driver “an Irish scumbag”, the court heard, and the victim also got out and went to the passenger side of his own car.  Mr Amaeze “said he was going to cut my throat” and pulled a knife out of the driver’s side door of his taxi, the victim told gardaí.  Mr Amaeze “lunged at” him, waving the knife around and ranting: “I’m going to kill you.”  The victim got back into his taxi and left the ramp with his passengers.

Mr Amaeze had no previous convictions.  Defence solicitor Eoghan O’Sullivan said the accused was very apologetic.  “He was taken aback by what happened on the day and didn’t react in the best way that he could,” Mr O’Sullivan said.  Mr Amaeze had been driving a taxi since 2008 and only had the knife in his cab “to cut up his lunch”.  The solicitor asked the judge to spare his client a conviction, saying it would have a serious impact on Mr Amaeze’s ability to earn a living.  Judge Kelly said it was a “very serious matter” and in all likelihood she would not be able to do this.

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

did i ever tell yiz about the time i stopped at the airport taxi area at the side of terminal 1 by accident and the monty python sketch that erupted round me.
it's a ken length story.

[Octavia1]

I looked up butter knife on the internet ting ....
Wat was he goin do ?

Make him a sandwich? 

[Rat Catcher]

"Victim"! Handbags at dawn by DAA licenced villain standards...

[silverbullet]

I looked up butter knife on the internet ting ....
Wat was he goin do ?

Make him a sandwich? 

How could they argue about overtaking in the kesh or Mondello if one had passengers on board?

I wonder how the judge will approach the racist comments. It's not black & white.

[Rat Catcher]

Those lads could start an argument in solidarity confinement.

[silverbullet]

Those lads could start an argument in solidarity confinement.

[C5]

Imagine if the the tables were turned, the media would be frothing from the mouth, it would be on for days or weeks. Never heard anything about the black bus driver that put the 8 year old boy flying across the grass with a slap.

[Rat Catcher]

A couple of men having a bit of a Barney is nothing out of the ordinary in the Kesh. FFS, men have come to blows over a game of cards in there... real blows as in someone actually getting hit and hitting back!

[silverbullet]

A couple of men having a bit of a Barney is nothing out of the ordinary in the Kesh. FFS, men have come to blows over a game of cards in there... real blows as in someone actually getting hit and hitting back!

It couldn't have been in the Kesh as the victim had passengers on board. Safe to say it was on the ramp.

Regarding carrying a knife around, it will be a case of BLT, not BLM!!