Taxi Driver Online

This isn't really much of a taxi story, and it doesn't say whether anything happened during the taxi journey, but the driver obviously had a close shave.

Brave OAP ordered taxi for Dundee attacker who threatened to shoot folk on Tay Road Bridge

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/b ... ad-bridge/

A man who tried to rob an elderly woman in a bowling club car park — only for the brave OAP to take him inside and call him a taxi instead — has avoided jail.

Dylan Bertie then went to the Tay Road Bridge where he threatened to shoot people and throw them into the water.

Earlier in the day, Bertie had turned up at the Lochee Bowling Club car park in Muirton Road and attacked 75-year-old June Steen.

He demanded her car keys before he grabbed Mrs Steen round the neck.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told Dundee Sheriff Court: “She was terrified and thought the accused was trying to strangle her. He eventually released her but kept demanding her keys.

“She was shaken but asked why he needed a car and he said ‘I’m needing up north to escape’. She could smell alcohol and formed the opinion he was drunk.

“She told the accused to come into the club to see if anyone else had a car. He became increasingly agitated and was asked to leave.

“She called for a taxi and after he left a member of the club asked her to report the matter to police.”

Miss Robertson added that police were later called to the Tay Road Bridge after Bertie was seen using the public intercom stating he would shoot people and throw them into the water.

He told police that “by the time they had drawn their Tasers he would have dropped them all”.

He was told to show his hands as he grabbed at an item in his waistband and was chased down and apprehended, the court was told.

Bertie, 21, of St Mary Place, pleaded guilty on indictment to charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, possessing a police baton and assault and robbery, all committed on August 17 last year.

Solicitor advocate Kris Gilmartin said: “There is no significant mental disorder beyond an alcohol problem.’’

Sheriff Alastair Brown imposed a community payback order with one year’s supervision and an order that Bertie be confined to his home address from 7pm-7am daily for six months. He was also ordered to pay £250 compensation.

F***ing lovely.

And the old fella is getting congratulated for it.

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Yes, it's all a bit bizarre - I mean, young drunken bloke grabs 75-year-old *woman* by the neck and demands her car keys, so she goes into the bowling club and asks if anyone else has a car??

And although it was suggested by someone else that the police be called, it doesn't actually say whether or not they were - the incident police attended was a couple of miles away, and there's no suggestion they attended that because they were called to the initial incident.

Cynic in me thinks folks at club just trying to get rid of the guy, and avoiding further grief for themselves, and passing the problem onto someone else - the taxi driver (although it's not clear whether or not the accused did leave in a taxi, the intent was obvious - let a taxi driver deal with it rather than the police).

Oh, and guy has previous - quick Google finds piece about him stealing van while over the limit, unlicensed, blah, blah, you know, the usual.

Of course, that could be another DYLAN BERTIE from Dundee of that age, but until this morning I'd have been amazed to know that there was *one* person in Dundee called Dylan Bertie