'Amorous' Australian woman attacks taxi after driver rejects offer of sex

A woman has smashed a taxi window after the driver knocked back her advances. The 26-year-old lady approached the taxi outside the Parap Tavern, Darwin, at around 10.45pm on Boxing Day. She got into the taxi and asked the male driver, "Do you want to have sex?"

The taxi driver who requested only his first name be printed refused the lady's advances. "I told her no I'm not interested," Dean said. "She then asked me for a cigarette. I said no I'm not giving you any cigarettes and please get out of my car." The lady began swearing, slammed the passenger door and started kicking the cab.



Dean said the lady then picked up a bottle and threw it at the taxi smashing the rear passenger window. Police arrested the lady a short time later. "It would appear that she was a bit amorous at that time of the evening," Duty Superintendent Daniel Shean said. The affair cost the taxi driver a night's earnings and Dean has to pay to fix the broken window.

"I just started driving for the owner three days ago," he said. The 41-year-old driver is engaged to be married and had no thoughts of cheating on his future wife. "If you saw the girl you'd have to be pretty desperate. She was a very big fat ugly woman, she got in the car and stunk it out," the taxi driver said. The woman has been charged with having an offensive weapon and criminal damage.