The Taxi Cartel and Their Government Enforcers
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Government Crackdown on Good Samaritans II
MIAMI GARDENS, FL.–A man who said he thought he was just helping a woman in need is accused of running an illegal taxi service and Miami-Dade County’s Consumer Services Department has slapped him with $2,000 worth of fines.
The 78-year-old said he was walking into a Winn-Dixie to get some groceries when he was approached by a woman who said she needed a ride. Rosco O’Neil told the woman if she was still there when he finished his shopping, he would give her a ride. She was, so he did. As it turned out, the woman was an undercover agent with the consumer services department targeting people providing illegal taxi services.
MP: Taxi Cartel membership has its privileges, doesn’t it? See a related post here “Government Crackdown on Good Samaritans.”
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