Venomous seems to be as tall as cab 666 -- driver seeks negotiation
Yellow cab entrustment to adjudicate issuing a new medallion
Steve Rubenstein, Let know Switch Author
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The San Francisco Yellow cab Basis is set to inflexible this night whether one of the city's cabs is "associated with evil and Satan.'
And its selection, according to the elected official graph, has implications flanked by no less than Armageddon, St. John the Divine, Perfectly Friday, the Photo album of Dig and the Streak of the Beast.
At its stable commission, the entrustment mood adjudicate a instruct from the offend stall of taxi cab medallion No. 666 to have in stock the originate retired.
Driver Michael Byrne complained that the originate is bad luck and guaranteed haunt entrustment clerical exclusive Jordanna Thigpen to request up his derivation with a two-page note to the board.
"The evils... are of grown-up severity,' Thigpen whispered in her note. "The originate 666 has been associated with evil and with Satan for hundreds of years. The originate real McCoy appears in the Dig of St. John the Divine. Dig describes Armageddon and offers the originate 666 as a measure of recognizing the group of 'the beast,' or evil.'
A few years ago, Thigpen whispered, the cab held by medallion stall 666 "burned to a clean on Perfectly Friday... and the cleanly thing lasting previously the fire were the kick out 666, noticeable in the remains.'
Byrne, a 30-year skilled driver, was assigned No. 666 cleanly continue Noble, Thigpen whispered, previously distinctive applicant refused to gorge the originate. While then, sources whispered, Byrne has been complicated in at negligible one misfortune -- even previously embezzle the prudence of having the cab blessed at Assignment Dolores.
"Do I flight of the imagination in the Streak of the Beast myself?' Thigpen whispered in an test. "No. But offer is a lot of roguish energy approximately that cab. If we can help dignitary out, why not do it? If something's a irritation, it's our excise to get rid of it, right?'
A entrustment clerk, who asked not to be established, whispered Byrne "had heap deaths approximately him and his kin and that feat rid of the cursed originate "is an perceive that speaks for itself.'
On the commission graph is a four-paragraph schedule explaining the overturn and requesting that Medallion 666 be retired and that Medallion 1307 be issued as a replacement -- even yet that originate begins with the spooky digits "13."
Thomas George-Williams, chairman of the United Taxicab Workforce establishment, whispered No. 666 has "considerably a history" and that cabbies love to target spirit stories about it between fares, but that the entrustment could do with not to get complicated in superstitions.
He whispered taxi drivers formerly condition elevate offer is no 13th Boulevard in San Francisco. The name of the thoroughfare between 12th and 14th avenues was yearn ago dubbed Funston Boulevard, to argue Armageddon at bay.
"I chew over this is leave-taking to make the civic play a fleeting silly for embezzle it up,' George-Williams whispered. "Everyplace does it stop? I don't chew over the civic needs to practice time feat complicated in something savor this.'
