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Roosters star Todd Carney's career could be over. (AAP Image/Sergio Dionisio)
Todd Carney is in trouble again, after another night on the turps in which he committed the cardinal sin of breaking Braith’s booze ban.
Yet again there will be a million and one arguments as to whether Todd is a lost cause or just a kid in his early 20s who enjoyed an incident-free night out with a couple of mates.
The question that really should be asked, however, is what happened to the cab driver’s oath?
It may not be as well publicised as the doctor’s Hippocratic oath or the priest’s vow of celibacy but surely it exists?
“I do solemnly swear that what happens on the back seat stays on the back seat.”
Every cabby in Sydney could tell you stories of couples getting rambunctious, businessmen racking up lines or married men getting a lift to or from Stilettos. And most of them do.
However, your decent cabby keeps names, dates and times to themselves. Because that’s what makes them a decent cabby.
Sure, when Mark Latham breaks your arm or Willie Mason does a cab bolt you make a report.
But when you’ve had to drive three blokes from one pub to another and your biggest complaint is that they pay you on EFTPOS – which garners a surcharge – you keep it to yourself. Because that’s the cabby’s code.
Carney’s cabbie, known only as ‘Michael’, called the Daily Telegraph to let them know Carney, Frank-Paul Nuuausala and Nate Myles were out on the drink because he didn’t think NRL players should be drinking.
This guy’s a cabbie in the eastern suburbs. If he doesn’t think NRL players should drink he would spend the end of just about every shift making calls to the press to report footballers drinking.
The make of Michael is that he called the Roosters some 12 hours after calling the Tele.
He’s not worried about what’s right, he’s looking for a quick buck.
He’s surely the kind of cabby who stops at an amber light and “gets lost” to try and rack up a higher fare when he knows the destination is really just around the corner.
Who cares that Todd’s been given a show-cause notice – Michael should be brought before the taxi tribunal and have his license revoked.
Surely that’s why he’s only given his first name – he knows the hire car leadership committee would haul (or is that hail) him before a disciplinary hearing.
He gives cabbies all over Sydney a bad name – and they really don’t need him making things worse.
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