# Important news from my taxi driver this morning. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2009, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314 "2009-06-01T03:20:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/21 "2009-06-02T15:47:12Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > New Jersey. Hey, dese are some powerful drills. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/22 "2009-06-02T16:11:52Z")
Coast to Coast is my ultimate guilty pleasure. It’s like this surreal window into crazy and I just can’t look away, I even have a subscription so I can record the podcast and listen to it on my way to work. Angelic unicorn guardians, ancient subterranean civilizations, government mind control via your refrigerator’s coolant compressor, you’ll learn all the news that THEY don’t want you to know. It’s like one of Grand Theft Auto’s joke radio shows but in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/23 "2009-06-02T16:27:04Z")
I used to love closing my store (@ 11pm ET) because I could listen to Coast to Coast on the way home. George Noory is brilliant- no matter how nutso his guest is, he always manages to convey a sincere feeling of shock at whatever bizarre “revelation” they’re spouting. [It wasn’t always so harmless, though…](http://www.csicop.org/si/9707/art-bell.html) ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/24 "2009-06-02T16:49:44Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > I once had a cab driver in Reno tell me “Yeah you know people think trees are so great because they make oxygen, but what they don’t know is they STEAL IT BACK AT NIGHT!!!” > > Damn those wiley trees! Your cab driver was Mink Stole? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/25 "2009-06-02T18:23:48Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > That wasn’t hell that they hit. They didn’t realize that they had drilled all the way to New Jersey. Considering the state of inebriation of the average Siberian oil field worker, it’s also possible that the moaning arose due to drilling through his colleague’s feet. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/26 "2009-06-02T18:37:45Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’ve heard that one before and it is a great UL, IMHO. It’s the kind of thing you can imagine kids telling each other while holding a flashlight under their faces. It would also be a great start to a scary movie. My cousin with the fundie parents\* told me this story in 1989. Scared the living shitlights out of me. \*Meaning they knew everything about God and heaven and hell and were incapable of lying or being wrong, in my 8 year old mind. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/27 "2009-06-02T19:09:17Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Wow! That just proves both the Bible and the Koran are WRONG, then, because mainstream Christianity and Islam both officially preach that hell will only be populated after a Judgment at the End Of Days. That, or those guys drilled into some kind of Beta/Test Run for Hell. Really? I mean, I don’t know much about Islam, but I grew up in mainstream Christianity, and I was taught it’s a straight shot, no waiting. Luke 16:20-ish has the poor man Lazarus observing the sinful rich man in hell from his perch in heaven. They didn’t wait till the end of days. I’m really curious - I wasn’t aware that this was a widely held view among Christians. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/28 "2009-06-02T22:50:47Z")
Kind of glad they filled that hole…can you imagine if they had made it bigger, allowing all those lawyers to climb out! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/29 "2009-06-03T02:33:16Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Your cab driver was Mink Stole? Are you saying my cab driver was not legitimately crazy and merely a John Waters plagiarist? I demand a refund! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/30 "2009-06-03T07:12:33Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This totally cracked me up. And I’m in a cafe, so now people think I’m crazy. (It’s okay, though.) > > I’m disappointed that my exciting taxi-driver borne news is old hat to some of you. I’d never heard that story before! It makes me wonder what other important news flashes I am not aware of. Haven’t you ever browsed Snopes? It is informative, entertaining, and sometimes frightening. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/31 "2009-06-03T17:46:40Z")
Oh Snopes, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314/32 "2009-06-03T18:01:48Z")
[Taxi Driver Wisdom](http://www.amazon.com/Taxi-Driver-Wisdom-Risa-Mickenberg/dp/0811811654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244051991&sr=8-1). One of those impulse book purchases I made before kids that I’ve never regretted. Even paid full price too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-news-from-my-taxi-driver-this-morning/498314.md?page=1)