19 Year old Essendon player assaults Taxi driver

[Kennedy_17]

There was a cabbie arrested here in perth not long ago for luring drunk teenage men into his cab and touching them.... maybe he mis-judged how drunk hurley was.... poor michael.

 

[fishguts]

the cabbie politely asked for the full fare of the cab ride.

Believe that if you want...

I'm not saying it's the cabbie's fault, however, I hardly believe that he just stood there and said "Can I please have my fare". I think it's odds on that the cabbie has at the very least touched him on the shoulder to get his attention.

 

[Daytripper]

Believe that if you want...

I'm not saying it's the cabbie's fault, however, I hardly believe that he just stood there and said "Can I please have my fare". I think it's odds on that the cabbie has at the very least touched him on the shoulder to get his attention.

Please - Hurley is what 6'3 and 90-100kgs.

I dare say he wasn't intimidated by an Indian cabbie who is more than likely much smaller than him.

 

[douls]

Believe that if you want...

I'm not saying it's the cabbie's fault, however, I hardly believe that he just stood there and said "Can I please have my fare". I think it's odds on that the cabbie has at the very least touched him on the shoulder to get his attention.

who gives a shit how he asked him, it was money owed to him. Was the cabbie supposed to just turst another drunk young bloke at that hour? was he supposed to beg for his money? FFS Hurley has fked up, he'll have his day in court, cop his fine and let's move on. there is a Grand Final on tomorrow......

 

[KING-JAMES]

who gives a shit how he asked him, it was money owed to him. Was the cabbie supposed to just turst another drunk young bloke at that hour? was he supposed to beg for his money? FFS Hurley has fked up, he'll have his day in court, cop his fine and let's move on. there is a Grand Final on tomorrow......

I agree mate. His made a mistake, like a lot of young players do early on in there career, dont crucify him for it. I'm not saying what he has done is fine but we dont know the full story, and most likely never will. There is a grand final tomorrow and anybody getting a kick out of this just looks jealous for not having him. Go saints tomorrow!

 

[Shane Hird]

Storm in a teacup type of stuff. People love it when an Essendon player gets into trouble with the law. Only happens once every ten years..unlike other clubs.


At least it shows he has some mongrel in him.

Looking forward to M.H dish out some hits -above the waist- to opponents next season.

 

[UpTheGuts]

Storm in a teacup type of stuff. People love it when an Essendon player gets into trouble with the law. Only happens once every ten years..unlike other clubs.


At least it shows he has some mongrel in him.

Looking forward to M.H dish out some hits -above the waist- to opponents next season.

Yeah, onya Hurley

 

[James Buchanan]

Storm in a teacup type of stuff. People love it when an Essendon player gets into trouble with the law. Only happens once every ten years..unlike other clubs.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/08/04/1249350539394.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/09/25/1253813601039.html

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Believe that if you want...

I'm not saying it's the cabbie's fault, however, I hardly believe that he just stood there and said "Can I please have my fare". I think it's odds on that the cabbie has at the very least touched him on the shoulder to get his attention.

Well believe that if you want....

but you have no idea whatsoever.

Nobody does. Why would a cabbie be touching Hurley on the shoulder?

 

[KING-JAMES]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/08/04/1249350539394.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/09/25/1253813601039.html

Nathan Lovett-Murray was as innocent as ya get. Not his fault his brothers involved in the wrong crowd. Natrat barely even has a drink, good figure around the club. Hurley made a mistake at 19 and people are making out like his a murderer...oh big footy.

 

[Bloben]

If I was Essendon I would be making an announcement as quickly as possible.

Best way to keep the media out of this is to get it over today and then let the focus be on the Grand Final. Come next week this will have been dealt with.

 

[TwiggleyFanClub]

Knowing Essendon, they'll probably give him a raise. It's the sort of behavior they love to promote on the footy field.

Hypocrisy board.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

We can take it to Bay 13 and carry on as if they are.

outstanding response!

 

[Monkey King]

who gives a shit how he asked him, it was money owed to him. Was the cabbie supposed to just turst another drunk young bloke at that hour? was he supposed to beg for his money?

Don't agree with this. I've known cabbies to assault passengers when they thought their fare was at risk. If anything close to this occurred then Hurley is of diminished responsibility AFAIC. If the attack was unprovoced then Hurley should have the book thrown at him.

Half of what the media writes is bullshit anyway, so let's just wait and see the story that comes out.

 

[OB1]

I will ask this question - do posters know of someone who has been assaulted by a cabbie? .

Yes. Mate got smacked in the face with a water bottle by a cabbie outside Crown. He hoped in after waiting at the proper taxi rank & told the driver he wanted to go to a hotel on the other side of the city. This would have been a pretty short trip (maybe $10-$15 tops) so the cabbie got angry & told him to get out "not far enough" (obvioulsy he was hoping for a big fare). Mate stood his ground & said "you can't just refuse a short trip" & the cabbie turned around & wacked him. Mate jumped out & taxi drove off while coping a kick to the qtr panel. Wasn't anything serious, mate just had a small blood nose & didn't persue any charges.

Also i've personally been kicked out of a taxi & threatened by the driver because I jumped in just as his previous fare was getting out (out the front of a pub). I just saw the taxi pull up to let people out & thought beauty here's a cab. Jumped in & straight away the guys gone crazy saying no no no. He was going crazy because he believed I had to go to the taxi rank (there was 1 about 500m up the road) I said come on mate I'm in now just take me to the casino. No no no get out get out get out. The bloke pulled a stick out from under his seat & starts waving it at me. I got the message & hoped out. He drove up the road to the rank & picked up someone else There are certainly some strange cats driving cabs late at night.

BTW - This in no way shape or form is meant to try to defend Hurley or make light of the allegations. Just responding to the question.

 

[No1Blue]

As for the filthy scum comment. Well culture starts at the top, and Clarko isn't the sort of role model I would want my players following.

LOL yeah like Matty Knights. Knows a lot about finals and premierships that guy, Richmond all the way!

 

[TwiggleyFanClub]

The current generation of young men coming through our society are a bunch of ****s.

Whether it was Hurley or somebody Hurley was with is besides the point; it is utterly unacceptable behaviour and the person should be punished appropriately.

There is this mentality surrounding current youth who just seem to have this blatant disrespect for anybody and act as such. This isn't just a football issue, but a social issue.

The fact that recent attacks have been of a racist nature is even worse. Whilst I don't think this has anything to do with racism, the fact is that given the current climate it could not have been more poorly timed.

Add to that, there is no excuse for an unprovoked attack on somebody and kicking is also the lowest form of dog act going around.

I don't buy the whole 'he is a 19 y/o who was drunk argument'. I've been 19, been drunk and never seen a person assaulted like that simply for the sake of it (and I grew up in Noble Park). I've also caught heaps of cabs and been forced to pay up extra because the dodgy driver 'had no change'. Yeah I was pissed off and told him so, but I didn't assault him.

It's a disgrace and I hope that due to the high profile nature of this story that those ****wits start paying attention and changing their approach and attitude to life.

+1. PotY.

 

[sen entertainment bloke]

This is just one person,probably pissed,not a gang.Of course it was going to either be an Indian or Sri Lankan cabbie,as that's where most cabbies in Melbourne are from.

So I guess it's lucky John Brumby is in India at the moment trying to smooth things over.Just add one more to the list John.

Brumby supports Collingwood.


Should have taken Rich.

This sort of thing is not the direction to an Essendon flag.

 

[Monkey King]

Yes. Mate got smacked in the face with a water bottle by a cabbie outside Crown.

Also i've personally been kicked out of a taxi & threatened by the driver

BTW - This in no way shape or form is meant to try to defend Hurley or make light of the allegations. Just responding to the question.

Which is my whole point. According to my experience, if the cabbie thought his fare was at risk, it doesn't sound like a realistic interpretation of events that he alighted the cab and simply 'asked' Hurley for a payment; to which Hurley responded by punching him for no reason whatsoever. I think there's probably something more to it, but will not pass judgment either way until more is revealed.

 

[BlueTouchPaper]

Seriously, you're just making Hurley look guiltier by trying crap deflections like that.

Seriously, Neville, the goings-on of BigFooty have no bearing on the apparent guilt of Hurley.

 

[Dr Pangloss]

The first bolded point is simply not true, I don't know what world your living in but abusing cabbies doesn't just sit in with watching the grand, grand final bbq's and lamingtons, as an ''australian thing''.

And to say that ''we'' should ''just forgive'' a bloke who kicks and punches someone who is doing their job and ''move on'' the most biased, stupid thing I have ever heard.

When your son becomes a cab driver and is kicked and punched at 5 in the morning I wonder just how forgiving and willing to move on you will be.

Stupidity personified.

when i read posts like this, and a few others in this thread condemning the act and any latent racism, my hopes for the survival of humankind rise just a little.

too bad that there are more mindless, uncritical defenses of the act.

on balance, those hopes are now lower than where they were yesterday. abandon your parochialism and see an act for what it really is.

a person was kicked and punched. a rite of passage? not in the Australia that I was born in and have lived and loved for the last 22 years.

i am fine with waiting for all the facts to become known; i am not fine with people preemptively justifying the act by referring to 'the truth', universally acknowledged, that a person who drives a cab is subhuman and can be treated as such without any compunction. don't do that, you yourself come across as subhuman.

 

[Nickers]

I'm friends with a couple of players who were drafted in the same year as Hurley, and whilst I don't know him personally, a number of different people (players, parents and coaches) have often commented on how he's a terrific bloke, always seems to have his head screwed on, etc and this whole ordeal is a real shock and goes against everything that people have said about him so far. I've go no idea as to what actually happened, but sometimes decent people make some pretty big mistakes (particularly when alcohol is involved) and whilst I'm embarrassed for him and pissed off that one of our players has been involved in a situation like this, I think it'd be wise not to make too many assumptions and completely rip into the kid.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

I'm friends with a couple of players who were drafted in the same year as Hurley, and whilst I don't know him personally, a number of different people (players, parents and coaches) have often commented on how he's a terrific bloke, always seems to have his head screwed on, etc and this whole ordeal is a real shock and goes against everything that people have said about him so far. I've go no idea as to what actually happened, but sometimes decent people make some pretty big mistakes (particularly when alcohol is involved) and whilst I'm embarrassed for him and pissed off that one of our players has been involved in a situation like this, I think it'd be wise not to make too many assumptions and completely rip into the kid.

The guy's obviously an A Grade tool. Let's not pretend otherwise Nickers.

Normal, even semi-intelligent people, don't go around assaulting taxi drivers.

Renouf jumping on cars was an unacceptable and very poor thing to do. Hurley's actions were disgraceful.

 

[Nickers]

The guy's obviously an A Grade tool. Let's not pretend otherwise Nickers.

Normal, even semi-intelligent people, don't go around assaulting taxi drivers.

Renouf jumping on cars was an unacceptable and very poor thing to do. Hurley's actions were disgraceful.

You could be absolutely right mate, I don't know Hurley personally at all, but it's probably unfair to judge someone entirely on one mistake (albeit a big one), in which the details are yet to be properly provided. I'm probably just a little more sceptical than others on here seeing as I know quite a number of people who know him (and no, they're not EFC supporters) who have often commented on his character, which is why this has all come as a big shock to me, and why I'm reserving judgement until I know more about the incident.

 

[GuzzLG]

The guy's obviously an A Grade tool. Let's not pretend otherwise Nickers.

Normal, even semi-intelligent people, don't go around assaulting taxi drivers.

Renouf jumping on cars was an unacceptable and very poor thing to do. Hurley's actions were disgraceful.

Normal people do all sorts of stupid things when they are too intoxicated to make proper choices.

Lacking mental capacity from drinking can be used as a legal excuse for certain offences, even homicide.