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Mar 20, 2022 2:48 PM
mickeymouseshoes
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drinkthederpentine
Not the point of the post, I know. But God I love that Uber and Lyft have broken the taxi monopoly.
gaenaralhonk
kinda fucked though how they're undermining the taxi driver unions
Alfadorfox
well ghosts are low on life
mickeymouseshoes
Ha!
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tastelesstastyfreeze
Buses stop at rail crossings and open the door so that ghosts of people killed by trains can catch a ride to where they need to go
UncleScarwasright
damn ghost owes me three-fiddy!
Ashytastic
That' about the time I realised this ghost was about 8 stories high and a crustacean from the protozoic era...
maliciousGman
/a/UOYpQIX
chipsconqueso
There's literally a series of films about not messing with cranky Japanese ghosts.
amiurume
No, it doesn't.
seanmccorkle
deadbeats
dasklaus
You guys know ghosts aren't real and this is made up/embellished/grief hallucinations/misremembering, right?
braggadocious
Or just lying.
dasklaus
I'd have counted that under "made up".
DUBAR70
"You're a ghost, buddy - you'll have to pay up front." Taxi driver probably.
goouch
here are some interesting sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I9G_irOZoM&ab_channel=FRANCE24English
goouch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UHZugCNKA4&ab_channel=KyleHill
SocoFox
I believe it. In NOLA you can walk into an alley, get robbed, and you're literally the only person anyone ever saw go in, or come out.
ToSisPoS
Ghost Taxi NO/T would be a great manga series. A world-weary NOLA cab driver moves to Tokyo and has to overcome his old ghost biases.
intaglioguy
Ghost rider in the taxi is an old urban legend. I know 'cause I'm old.
10001110101periodictablewithasantapieceofmind
Sounds like an excuse to have late nights off
IAmTheLastOne
My old Thai boss talked about something similar after the Thailand tsunami.
Davincimode
Japanese ghosts are like toxic "friends", PO'd at being ignored. New Orleans Ghosts are your drunk "friends", to fucked up to know better.
StormLitPriest
Sure
Yellowchopsticks
Why can't ghosts scam large corporations instead of the hard working common folk?
jmuije
When's the last time you saw Ol' Muskie driving an uber? What's a ghost gonna do to him, book an appointment and never show up?
LongtimeLurkerFirsTimePoster
Why is the existence of ghost such a mystery? Why are they hiding? If I were a ghost, I'd make it super obvious it was me.
Munchman347
'The dead are a bunch of stiffs!'...
tarkus10
So it goes.
TherealNotSid
That's the difference between American and Japanese ghosts. US ghosts have rules on why/how they mess with you, Japanese ghosts don't.
DavidBrooker
If the problem is your ghosts want to get home, taking them home kinda solves the problem.
Qpnao
The drivers should compare notes to see if one shows up again
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Feels like they can walk though. They have the time and their legs don't hurt.
JoiyJoiyQueenofDaKobolds
They dont know that.
AceNightingale
rude
Qpnao
So rude
AceNightingale
rude
AceNightingale
rude
doshka
I saw the totaled car and the guy who picked me up is all rocking himself in the back of the ambulance, but I just didn’t put it together...
doshka
for a while. Like, for years. I know, right? I’d keep trying to go home and winding up back in the same place, and God, my poor parents...
doshka
with these freaked-out guys ringing the doorbell at all hours of the night — I felt so bad about putting them through that, you know, ...
doshka
once I did figure it out. Which…that was in ’39. Spring of ’39. I’d tried to get home again and I wound up back in the cemetery like always.
doshka
https://tomatonation.com/stories-true-and-otherwise/the-famous-ghost-monologues-no-1-resurrection-mary/
shadowofacrow
Meet their need and they passover being the idea?
Fengor
That and they don't inflict strangely specific and terrible retribution on you for small slight, as spirits in Japanese folklore tend to do.
spiritussancto
that's the general consensus for getting rid of hauntings
MithridateEupator
Bet none of these cab drivers had a camera in the car
BHPaperstacks
*Dropping off drug shipments for yakuza. It was a ghost Taxi-Owner-Son. I did not wish to be impolite.
astrangehop
You just want to fuck the ghosts, eh?
Katabare
If I'm ever a ghost, I'm gonna appear at the most inappropriate times. Like during childbirth
GoddammitMrNoodle
at the DMV line.
ChickenFingerFingers
Or conception.
Katabare
Or while taking a huge poop
PoppaBigBear
Reminds me years ago in NOLA, I was walking my dog late at night and I decided to take him by a cemetery. Now I'm not saying ghosts are 1/2
ZebraCockSandwich
dog could probably smell death in that area. thought it was a dangerous place.
PoppaBigBear
real or not but he would refused to cross the street to get to the cemetery. Anywhere was fair game but not the cemetery 2/2.
LateNightBunnyParty
I'd bet it had more to do with his sensitive doggy nose smelling human death than with any kind of supernatural stuff.
Snooj
I smell dead people.
HiddenSanity
Had that in our area, but they were fine with it once the bear that had been scratching itself on the larger stones stopped.
peridotstar
I'm interested in how they were able to tell. Like, "Oh he shows up every morning--we call him Rufus'
HiddenSanity
Well it kept displacing/damaging things... so they built a bear fence along the wooded side of the cemetery.
ElvisCatStello
Is there a source to the Japanese claim? That sounds like an interesting read ha
Corrodias
It's obviously not true, so at best you're getting some tall tales from a handful of taximen who enjoy the attention.
melissajean19
There's a good little piece on Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix about it. I recommend it!
FieryDoom
https://www.foxnews.com/science/taxi-drivers-in-japan-report-ghost-passengers-in-tsunami-ravaged-area
SpartanwithaSkirt
Fox news has a science section...? Where they talk about ghosts... Yep that checks out lol
ElvisCatStello
Thanks!
ferafish
There's articles which reference a specific article that seems to no longer exist.
ferafish
https://www.mamamia.com.au/taxi-drivers-ghosts/
ElvisCatStello
Thanks!
Argusdubbs
the article was a ghost as well.
thetonestarr
ghostception
Wolf2Worrior
Do you mean a..... ghost writer!?
Valkor
i bet Japan doesn't still have a ghost problem
Afewflowers
They are so haunted they know how to treat ghosts properly
InfOracle
They've all reached their destinations thanks to the taxis.
thatisntwherethatbelongs
They do, husband went and got himself a curse in Okinawa. He had terrible luck for years, once the sidewalk gave way and he fell into a tomb
cosonfused
they do
Zeterai
They've got problems with ghosts, and bitches. And ghost bitches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI5vxzcMF8Q
GasBandit
What the fizzidyuck was that? Let's fizzidyukin' find out! Whatever, fill the hole, hole filler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigp8bqDt1s
LoopStricken
Well, give it a few days. The 25th specifically.
StevenNick
What happens on the 25th?
LoopStricken
Ghostwire: Tokyo releases. I don't know too much about it but it SOUNDS like it's got something to do with Japanese ghosts.
poppadum
Ghost emigration is a real problem now
asm80dfa8sdfj
It has a ghost solution
thatisntwherethatbelongs
They do, husband went and got himself a curse in Okinawa. He had terrible luck for years, once the sidewalk gave way and he fell into a tomb
2graves
That's an investing course
Snooj
Only the ghosts of their actions in past wars.
Haniel81
People, do not downvote this man. I love Japan, I've lived there for work, but he is NOT wrong. They should be a model for the world now in
Haniel81
Many ways, but they did dark and terrible things in their past.
Snooj
I'm probably getting downvotes because I brought unnecessary gravity to a light situation. I also love their culture but their past is dark.
Valkor
i could say the same about my country, but, i hate football xD
ReverseTrapTsukasa
more worried about demons atm https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/ancient-japanese-killing-stone-said-to-contain-evil-demon-has-cracked-open/
Imadethisaccounttopost
Yokai, they are worried about yoksi which is translated to demons but are closer to fae and spirits
ReverseTrapTsukasa
Right. Japanese is filled with demon terms like mamano, akuma, majin, mazoku, or Maou.
Zeterai
The gazebos are the worst of all.
Itslukus
Always have been
Itslukus
Nah. Someone posted that like 300 years ago a priest prayed for her soul and she repented, it was just a rock at this point.
ActuallyAPirate
Also it attacked/ harassed only the wealthiest people.
Arcian
Based.
Zeterai
...can we break some more of these rocks? Maybe get her some.. I'unno, demonic protein powder to bulk up a bit? However we can help, y'know?