Cabbie Charges Overweight Passenger for Blown Tire

When a Rome cab driver's back tire blew as he was taking a passenger from the train station to a medical clinic, the cabbie decided it was the passenger's fault—because he reportedly weighs 336 pounds—and charged him an extra $56, the Road Warrior Voices blog reports. Though the unnamed passenger paid the fare, he later filed a formal complaint against the driver. "I felt humiliated. It wasn’t fair," he tells a Rome newspaper, as cited by the Local. "This is also a kind of discrimination. It was obvious that he was mocking me because I am obese." (Read more strange stuff stories.)