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September 13, 2014
Everyone once in a bit, a lol comes along that makes all other lols seem to be pure weakness and failure.
This is one such lol.
San Diego taxi drivers are crying racism because officials at the San Diego International airport are using their smell to judge whether they are allowed to work. The non-White drivers are crying racism, since smelling like crap is part of their unique and diverse culture.
For years, inspectors with the San Diego Regional Airport Authority have run down their checklist for each cabbie — proof of insurance, functioning windshield wipers, adequate tire treads, good brakes. Drivers are graded pass, fail or needs fixing.
Anyone who flunks the smell test is told to change before picking up another customer.
Leaders of the United Taxi Workers of San Diego union say the litmus perpetuates a stereotype that predominantly foreign-born taxi drivers smell bad. A 2013 survey of 331 drivers by San Diego State University and Center on Policy Initiatives found 94 per cent were immigrants and 65 per cent were from East Africa.
Drivers wonder how inspectors determine who reeks. Driver Abel Seifu, 36, from Ethiopia, suspects they sniff inconspicuously during friendly conversations in the staging area. Airport authority spokeswoman Rebecca Bloomfield said there is “no standard process” to testing.
Others drivers question how inspectors distinguish between them and their cars. The checklist has a separate item for a vehicle’s “foul interior odours,” which Bloomfield says may include gasoline, vomit or mildew.
“If they want to bring their smell detector, they can use it to test the customers and the drivers,” said driver Negus Gebrenarian, 39, from Ethiopia. He, like other drivers, said the stench is just as likely to come from the back seat as it is from the front.
The airport authority says it is enforcing a policy of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, which regulates taxis throughout the region, that prohibits foul-smelling drivers and promotes regular bathing. It also says the practice is about satisfying customers.
“Taxi drivers are often the first impression that travellers receive when arriving into San Diego, and we want to encourage a positive experience,” Bloomfield said. Only about three drivers fail to get a passing grade each year, she said.
The Metropolitan Transit System doesn’t have a checklist for drivers outside the airport, which includes cabs in the city of San Diego, spokesman Rob Schupp said. The agency enforces the body-odour edict by responding to customer complaints — less than five a year, Schupp estimates.
Airport inspectors have been smelling drivers for years. There was no controversy until a union employee waded through a 568-page airport board agenda and noticed the checklist, which had been approved in July for revisions unrelated to the body odour test. KPBS reported on the practice last week.
San Diego’s policy appears to be unusually explicit about sniffing out smelly cabbies. Chicago requires that drivers be “clean and neat in their appearance.” New York City’s wording is similarly broad.
Seattle long evaluated cabbies for body odour associated with infrequent bathing and not washing clothes but dropped that test last month for a more general requirement on cleanliness.
“The industry didn’t like it, and they felt that we were kind of overstepping: Why are we dictating to them? We don’t tell city employees that you’ve got to shower more often,” said Denise Movius, Seattle’s deputy director of finance and administrative services.
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the 18,000-member New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said her face reddened with anger and dismay when she learned about the San Diego practice. She suggested the airport leave it to customers to complain about body odour.
“What a dehumanizing way to treat your workers,” she said.
There is nothing worse than getting into a taxi with one of these stinky beasts! It makes a civilized man verge on vomiting!
We need these stinking bastards out of our country!
