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Iran to launch women-only taxi company in Teheran

2006-12-10

TEHERAN - Iran will launch a women-only taxi company in Teheran aimed at women who feel uncomfortable riding in close proximity with members of the opposite sex, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Ladies Safe Trips taxi company, due to open for business in the next few weeks, will be the first such private sector firm in the capital. Similar taxi lines have been operating in some provincial cities for several years.

The company will only employ female drivers who will wear uniforms and must be married, the Teheran-e Emrouz newspaper said.

Just wouldn't do for men and those sultry women to be crammed together in a taxi. Why a man might touch the soft, tender flesh, those heavenly hips and .. those, those .. things on their chests .. and a man might .. oh, oh, I have to go shoot off ... my gun ... yes my gun ...

Posted by:Steve White

#9 Oops! Must have pasted the wrong passage!

#7 It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving

Ah. Thanks. I saw a gal in a burqa get behind the wheel of a driver's training car once in the US. She sunk down as low as she could in her seat and readjusted her veil so nobody could see her. I doubt she was even aware of it. I wanted to go over and talk a little sense into her head, but of course I didn't. Hopefully she's figured it all out by now. I chuckle every time I think about it! :-) Must have been from SA.
Posted by gorb 2006-12-10 17:00||

Nah Gorb, you must not have seen the Saudi Driver's Periscope! Allows the female driver to hide from the Muttawa and position herself to service a male passenger, so long as he is a relation. Allan Akbar!

Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-10 17:59

#8 Were their liberal dissidents among them? Yes, invariably and tragically there were a few not deserving of the fate they met.

Nah Gorb, you must not have seen the Saudi Driver's Periscope! Allows the female driver to hide from the Muttawa and position herself to service a male passenger, so long as he is a relation. Allan Akbar!

Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-10 17:57

#7 It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving

Ah. Thanks. I saw a gal in a burqa get behind the wheel of a driver's training car once in the US. She sunk down as low as she could in her seat and readjusted her veil so nobody could see her. I doubt she was even aware of it. I wanted to go over and talk a little sense into her head, but of course I didn't. Hopefully she's figured it all out by now. I chuckle every time I think about it! :-) Must have been from SA.

Posted by: gorb 2006-12-10 17:00

#6 Just imagine how many witnesses a woman driver would need if she was involved in a traffic accident.

Posted by: .com 2006-12-10 11:29

#5 The Ladies Safe Trips . . . and one must ask, "safe from what and whom?" It's a sad world when you can't even trust your taxi driver or fellow passengers from ACCOSTING you. Good grief.

Posted by: ex-lib 2006-12-10 11:10

#4 Gorb, they can. It's Saudi Arabia that prohibits women driving. I'm guessing the women are uncomfortable because the State makes them that way.

Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-12-10 11:02

#3 And think of the money they will save on all those expensive individualized cab-driver photos male cab-drivers have to shell out for.

Posted by: Excalibur 2006-12-10 08:05

#2 I guess this means that even with all their tunneling expertise, there's never going to be subways in Mullahland. All that close squeezing would set the male population into vapors.

Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-12-10 00:48

#1 I thought women couldn't drive in Iran.

And why isn't it safe to ride in a taxi with a guy?

Posted by: gorb 2006-12-10 00:21

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