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July 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Hundreds of people in Darwin have been left stranded after the city’s cab drivers called a snap strike at midnight in response to a violent brawl.
Senior Sergeant Bob Harrison with the NT Police said about 80 taxis had refused from midnight (CST) to pick up passengers in Darwin.
On a busy Saturday night in the dry season large crowds of people flock to Darwin’s bars and pubs and many have been left wandering the streets without a way to get home.
“It is bedlam out there at the moment,” Snr Sgt Harrison said.
He urged people who had been drinking not to get behind the wheel of a car and to try to walk to their destination or call a friend who is sober to pick them up.
Snr Sgt Harrison said the strike came after an incident on Saturday in which a taxi driver at the Skycity Casino had a bicycle thrown at his cab.
Later on Saturday the same driver saw those he thought were responsible walking in Smith Street in Darwin’s CBD.
He confronted them and a melee erupted, at about 9.30pm (CST) with other taxi drivers and friends of the people on the street joining in.
The incident was captured on CCTV.
“At one stage there were 20 or 30 people involved,” Snr Sgt Harrison said.
Following the melee, in which one of the drivers was assaulted, other taxi drivers staged an impromptu meeting at a rank and decided to stage a strike, he said.
From midnight (CST) the drivers have been circling slowly through the CBD with their hazard lights on, and have refused to pick up any passengers.
“I think they have just had enough of being assaulted and they want to draw people’s attention to the hazards they come up against,” Snr Sgt Harrison said.
He said it was expected the taxi drivers would finish driving around at about 1am (CST) but would not begin normal operations until shifts recommenced on Sunday morning.
Police have been going to taxi ranks in the city to alert people waiting for a ride that it was not expected any cabs would be coming.
The taxi strike is expected to be bad news for the hundreds of people who regularly arrive at Darwin’s airport early on Sunday on flights from Brisbane and Adelaide, and international flights from Bali, Singapore and the Philippines.
Although most of the city’s cab drivers are believed to have joined the protest, there are some independent taxi drivers who have continued picking up passengers.
Nobody has been charged over the violent melee but police are investigating the incident.
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