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Re:French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service by stickfigure on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:25PM (#11872834)
A cab driver tried to hold me up at gunpoint in Panama City (I jumped out of the moving cab, much to my captor's surprise). My sister-in-law had a similar experience in Mexico City (sans the dramatic escape). And I'm probably much more savvy than the average tourist. This happens all too commonly.

I wrote it up, if anyone prefers the long form: https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-have-a-loade...

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Re:French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service by jacquesm on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:56PM (#11872997)
Wow, that's a new one. I've been to Panama City many times and never had that happen to me, on the other hand, a friend of mine was in a car with a friend of his and said friend got shot through the head at a traffic light. It's not the safest place on the planet, to put it very mildly.
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