Taxi Driver Online

Another lairy woman in Scotland, but this seems a bit more violent than the recent reported incidents in Inverness and Perth.

And Stonehaven even smaller - population just 11,000 or so

(This is behind a very tight paywall on the Press and Journal's website, but luckily PHTM seems to have gotten hold of the text...)


Woman beat up Stonehaven taxi driver because he took wrong route

https://www.phtm.co.uk/news/4585/phtm-n ... rong-route

A woman dragged a taxi driver from his car and assaulted him following an argument over which route to take, a court has heard.

The Press and Journal reports that Pauline Small, 38, reigned blows down on the Stonehaven taxi driver and also attacked police officers who were called to deal with the incident.

Small, who claimed she’d only had four glasses of wine at a dinner with work colleagues, also clambered into the car, repeatedly sounded the horn, kicked the interior and tried to operate the switches.

Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told she also headbutted the inside of a police van on the town’s Allardice Street.

Small, a farmworker, pleaded guilty to five charges including assaulting a taxi driver, behaving in a threatening manner and assaulting three police officers.

Fiscal depute Kiril Bonavino told the court that Small asked the taxi driver to take her home before getting into an argument about the best route.

He said: “He took her back to the rank and told her to get out of his taxi.

“The accused then kicked the rear arch of the car several times before approaching the driver where she punched him to the face and body.

“She then grabbed him by his jumper and dragged him into the road.”

The court also heard that when police arrived and attempted to control Small she kicked one officer in the chest as she attempted to get her in the police van.

Small was taken to Kittybrewster Custody Suite where she then attempted to remove her clothes.

A decision was taken by officers to put her in an anti-harm suit due to her behaving in an “unsound manner”.

As officers entered the cell to put on the suit, she kicked out at one officer and called her a “fat lesbian”.

She then scratched another officer in the face, just missing her eye.

Defence agent Michael Burnett told the court: "Small suffers from anxiety, was under a great deal of stress and she has some mental health conditions.

“Ms Small was going home but it was not the way she was familiar with and she got herself into quite a state so by the time the police arrived she had lost the plot.

“She then finds herself in a cell being stripped by a number of officers. Ms Small thought she was in a dangerous situation and ramped up her behaviour.”

Sheriff Margaret Hodge told Small: “It seems to me that you might not have been entirely in control.

“There are probably mental health problems in the background as this does seem to be out of character for you.”

Sheriff Hodge sentenced Small, of Brigstanes, Catterline, to a community payback order with six months of supervision.

Of course, problem with stuff like this these days is that, er, it's maybe not quite as it seems to us dinosaurs. I mean, it's a bit more obvious in non-trade related headlines like these below (about the same person), but as for the likes of the article above, who knows?


Scot flashed her penis and used sex toy in public leaving onlookers shocked

https://dailyrecord.co.uk.trem.media/ne ... x-26256211

Former soldier Chloe Thompson, who is originally from Glasgow but moved to the Teesside area in 2011, was previously placed on the sex offenders' register for assaulting an underage girl.


Teesside woman accused of exposing penis, using sex toy and masturbating in public

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tees ... x-22260053

Chloe Thompson, 41, from Middlesbrough, has pleaded not guilty to the three charges


Note that the first headline in the Daily Record was eventually changed to exclude the word 'her', but the text of the article still refers to 'her penis', so not sure why they bothered.

And, for anyone particularly interested, the original headline is still here on the Record's website, about halfway down this page:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scot ... s-26262256


But what a time to be alive

I use this to get around most paywalls.

https://12ft.io/

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And getting pi**ed out of your head helps no end.

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Thanks - interesting one, and it worked with the P&J article, but didn't work with one on the Scotsman's site yesterday which I wanted to read.

But according to 12ft it uses Google's cache, which indeed I often use directly with paywalled articles, but using Google directly for the P&J article indicates that it hasn't been cached.

So not sure what's going on there.

But like many people I generally use the https://archive.ph/ site, which is sometimes quite slow (often takes a couple of minutes, and I've seen it take several hours) but at least it saves a permanent copy. And if it's stuff on prominent sites like the Times and Spectator, then it's often the case that someone else has got there first, so it loads quite quickly.

But Archive doesn't work with the Courier and P&J paywalled articles (they're part of the same publishing group and use the same website software), nor the Scotsman's. But I'm surprised some of those high-profile sites haven't closed that particular loophole. Not that I'm complaining, obviously, and don't disagree with paywalls in principle.

But there's still sufficient free stuff available online that with a tight budget I don't pay for anything online. But if websites want to charge for access then that's up to them.