Otaku force taxi service for the disabled to fold
Maid Taxi in Japan is a taxi service for disabled people. But Japundit reports that able-bodied otaku used the service so much that the intended customers were shut out.
[The weekly magazine Nikkan Gendai] notes that maid-obsessed otaku came from all over the country to ride in the taxis, swathing themselves in bandages or pretending to have broken bones to circumvent the Road Traffic Law’s ban on the able-bodied using vehicles designed for the disabled.LinkTake a rideKEC Hire Hokuriku’s President Keiji Endo, the father of a disabled child, was disappointed at the outcome.
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I don't understand why they couldn't just get rid of the maid theme to make the service less attractive to the fetishists. People who are really disabled are going to use the service even if hairy old guys are driving.
Sounds like time to switch to an "otaku suck" theme, eh?
The service is not subsidised right? How can having too many customers be a problem. They only need to split the service. Get rid of the maid outfit for the disabled service. And start a parallel service for the otaku.
Wait... this doesn't add up. They were forced to close because business was too good? Disabled or not, patrons were shelling out $50 an hour.
Sounds like a good excuse for the creditors. No apparent reason they couldn't have split the service, perhaps charging the fetishists more.
Why are they dressed like maids again? This is a for-pay service, so what's stopping the guy from just hiring more maids/cars? Is the $57/hour pricetag cheaper than other taxi services? I can't remember the last time somebody said "Dang, too many customers. I'll have to stop making all this money."
Like #1 said , if you want a taxi for the disabled and no maid fetishists, just lose the maid costumes. If you want a taxi service for people that like cute maids driving them around, keep the costumes and hire more people.
The real moral of the story: Move to Japan, hire young ladies, buy costumes and cars, Profit. No missing magic step.
Japanese weeklies tend to exaggerate or even make up stuff. I'd take this with a grain of salt.
Indeed, lose the maid uniforms and suddenly creepy geeks won't be bothering you. Pretty simple solution, really.
Simplify the whole problem: Give the Maids baseball bats. Stamp out fake broken limbs - with the emphasis on the "stamp".