On Thursday at this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity, the cocktail-party chatter was dominated by the French taxi
strike -- with some variation on the question "How the hell can we get
out of here?" being asked by many attendees.
In Cannes, where most festival panels, parties and hotels are in walking
distance of each other, the issue wasn't getting around during the
event, but what to do post-Cannes.
Background: French taxi drivers are blisteringly angry that Uber is
disrupting their business, so they planned their own rather theatrical
disruption: a day of protests, starting Thursday morning, that not only
idled taxis nationwide, but provided camera-ready images of blocked
roads, burning tires and smashed car windows. Rocker Courtney Love, who
was visiting Paris,
tweeted about an attack on her Uber ride:
"they've ambushed our car and are holding our driver hostage. they're
beating the cars with metal bats. this is France?? I'm safer in
Baghdad." (
She later updated:
"Paid some guys on motorcycles to sneak us out, got chased by a mob of
taxi drivers who threw rocks, passed two police and they did nothing").
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