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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by Hermel on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:14PM (#28435178)
Just a few days ago, I made the mistake of telling the police how much cash I had with me after they stopped the taxi I was sitting in (a few hundred euros). This happened in the middle of the night in a foreign country (France), so I didn't dare to disobey their orders. They took the cash and drove away. It turned out they were not real officers, but only dressed up as such for the purpose of robbing gullible tourists...
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by papaf on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:24PM (#28435276)
The taxi could have been in on it -- its a trick that is normally used in poorer countries but looks like its reached the EU.
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by hkt on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:37PM (#28436059)
I had this same thing happen to me in NYC, outside JFK airport. Not limited to poorer countries at all.
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by CamperBob2 on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:51PM (#28436206)
But remember, folks, rideshare services are unregulated and potentially unsafe.

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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by GFischer on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:34AM (#28440966)
Over here (Uruguay), rideshare services are way more reliable for tourists.

I have family from the countryside, and while they're not robbed outright, they're driven on the most inefficient way that drives up the meter.

Tourists can pay up to 100 dollars for a trip from the airport for example (legally if morally questionable).

A similar trip on a rideshare is less than half, but they're banned from the airport.

Plus, taxi drivers are unionized and are terrible drivers, while rideshare drivers are regularly kicked out if they give substandard service.

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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by krasi0 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:46AM (#28453499)
The same situation in many developing countries around the world. The local taxi cartels have been using lobbying and outright violence to keep ride-sharing services away / banned.
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by atatatat on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:13AM (#28444359)
NYC is poorer country, in a lot of people's cases.
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by lifty on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:18PM (#28435874)
Did you go to the police?
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Re:Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a veterans life... by CamperBob2 on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:08PM (#28436380)
That sounds like an instance of the old saying, "Got a problem? Call the police. Now you have two problems."
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