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Author:  cabby john [ Sun May 02, 2010 3:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Double standards!
As you all know from time to time we as taxi drivers have been slated for turfing out of our vehicles people who we have found did not have enough money. Unfortunately in some cases harm has come to them i.e knocked down/whatever.

Soooo last night I am going past a Police station at 5.00 a.m ish and a young slip of a woman is standing outside and flags me down. It turns out that she got arrested at 2.00 a.m because of a domestic, got taken down to the nick about 6 miles away from home charged and then outed at 5.00 a.m.

The bottom line being was that they did not see that she had any means of getting home, now if that had been us all hell would have broken loose.
Author:  Sussex [ Sun May 02, 2010 8:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Double standards!
cabby john wrote:
Soooo last night I am going past a Police station at 5.00 a.m ish and a young slip of a woman is standing outside and flags me down. It turns out that she got arrested at 2.00 a.m because of a domestic, got taken down to the nick about 6 miles away from home charged and then outed at 5.00 a.m.

I suspect she was made to make her own way home cos she didn't co-operate with the police.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Sun May 02, 2010 10:38 pm ]
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so she was nicked in a domestic, this "slip of a woman" sounds well able to get into trouble, so the cops probably thought she was able to get home, and she wasnt drunk or she would have been "put up" for the night
Author:  cabby john [ Mon May 03, 2010 9:59 am ]
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That is not the point and I am sure that she was properly apprehended because she misbehaved.However if something had happened to her as one of ours so to speak, it would still have been the usual to blame us and to tell us we were not behaving in a responsible manner.
Author:  Nigel [ Mon May 03, 2010 10:02 am ]
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Ha ha ha the old cop shop story. We got wise to them years ago when the Police used to phone us for taxis to take people home who'd been slammed up for the night. 90% of them didn't have any money so we were stumped no £££ for the fare.

When we went back to the Station they told us it's a civil matter and nothing to do with them.

We took our number off the Police station advertisement board, within 2 weeks all calls had stopped.

They have been locked up for a reason and at 5.30am they aren't going to be flushed with money are they?

I did have one decent job a few years ago, 2am Sunday morning I got a call for a pick up from the Station, in the destination it said National. Got there picked up the chap was OK, I said where you going mate? He said Bristol :shock: :D :shock: :D Can I have money up front please? Course you can, is it OK to stop at a cash machine?

He was a Bristol City fan who'd been slammed up for drunk and disorderly at the match between Mansfield and Bristol City.
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Author:  toots [ Mon May 03, 2010 4:19 pm ]
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The only job I've done from a police station, that the police had rang for, was to take a minor back home to where he should have been. The police officer informed me that they had spoken to an adult at the other end and they had said they would pay, but, if they didn't to go back to the police station and they would sort it out. Heaven only knows how they would have done that but fortunately I never had to :D
Author:  grandad [ Mon May 03, 2010 4:22 pm ]
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I have only ever done one job for the police. They asked me to take a drunk girl home. It wasn't far but the bitch was still sick in the back! :sad:
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Mon May 03, 2010 4:24 pm ]
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grandad wrote:
I have only ever done one job for the police. They asked me to take a drunk girl home. It wasn't far but the bitch was still sick in the back! :sad:



speaking of puke

what shift the smell?

had a pupil empty his porridge and jam in mine

of course mum offered to pay for a valet................not
Author:  grandad [ Mon May 03, 2010 4:30 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
grandad wrote:
I have only ever done one job for the police. They asked me to take a drunk girl home. It wasn't far but the bitch was still sick in the back! :sad:



speaking of puke

what shift the smell?

had a pupil empty his porridge and jam in mine

of course mum offered to pay for a valet................not


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Author:  Sussex [ Mon May 03, 2010 6:20 pm ]
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The other day I was sitting quitely reading a book and a paramedic knocked on the window. Thinking he wanted directions I opened the window.

However I was surprised to be asked if I wanted a job taking his patient home. :shock:

Nice job too. :D
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Mon May 03, 2010 6:29 pm ]
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Sussex wrote:
The other day I was sitting quitely reading a book and a paramedic knocked on the window. Thinking he wanted directions I opened the window.

However I was surprised to be asked if I wanted a job taking his patient home. :shock:

Nice job too. :D


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