{"id":4536,"date":"2009-03-06T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2009-03-06T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:53:59","slug":"you_would_think_hed_try_to_keep_a_low_profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/you_would_think_hed_try_to_keep_a_low_profile.html","title":{"rendered":"You Would Think He&#8217;d Try To Keep A Low Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That, and cabbies, one thing you need to understand before ever getting behind the wheel is that in general chicks don&#8217;t dig hacks, which means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/cabbies_women_l.html\">no flirting<\/a> and definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2009\/03\/05\/2009-03-05_from_hero_to_liar_to_perv_cabbie_told_sh.html\">no forcing yourself upon them when they&#8217;re trying to get home after a night out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A cabbie arrested last year in a bizarre child abandonment scheme is in trouble again, accused of molesting a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Klever Sailema is being hunted by cops after a 23-year-old woman reported he picked her up in Astoria on Sunday, drove her to another spot in Queens and attacked her. <\/p>\n<p>The victim had been drinking at a bar and passed out in the livery cab. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She kinda wakes up and finds him on top of her,&#8221; a police source said, adding that her pants were pulled down. &#8220;She fought him off and got away.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She hailed a second cab, which took her home. She then called police and went to a hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Sailema claims the contact was consensual, said Fernando Mateo of the NYS Federation of Taxi Drivers, who spoke to him. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s afraid. He doesn&#8217;t understand why he&#8217;s being charged,&#8221; Mateo said. &#8220;According to him, she was drunk. He doesn&#8217;t feel like he did anything wrong.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said Sailema told him the woman was &#8220;leading him on&#8221; &#8212; then threw his keys out of the car and snatched his taxi papers when he went to retrieve them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That, and cabbies, one thing you need to understand before ever getting behind the wheel is that in general chicks don&#8217;t dig hacks, which means no flirting and definitely no forcing yourself upon them when they&#8217;re trying to get home after a night out: A cabbie arrested last year in a bizarre child abandonment scheme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}