Sounds a carbon copy of a couple of articles from Fraserburgh a wee while before lockdown (January 2020, when Covid in the news, and affecting trade a bit here in terms of overseas travel, but a couple of months before it all kicked off bigtime).
But Bangor probably much the same in terms of exaggeration in terms of numbers, money and illegality. So in Fraserburgh the claim was that there were as many illegal 'taxis' as legitimate ones, they were making £250 per night, blah, blah.
But reading between the lines, and drilling down, it all looked like mainly boy racers picking up pals and girlfriends etc.
No doubt a bit of illegality going on (if you count friends and relatives contributing to 'petrol money' illegal), but all hugely exaggerated.
And always an element of danger to women in particular with that kind of thing, but to eliminate that kind of risk completely they'd have to close the night time economy down
Which might sound a bit drastic and unrealistic, but that maybe relates back to the Covid thing - when the elites thought they were the ones in danger from all of this, they closed the pubs and clubs down completely. For months
Who'd have thought that possible just a few weeks after the Fraserburgh article was reported?
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