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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:18 pm 
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The driver was lucky, the husband could have been the type to arrange meals through a straw for the him



If the womans young one hadn't been there I think he would've.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:38 pm 
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My take is this.......if someone is trying to steal or deprive a store of its money - can they hold that person against their will! Of course they can.


Wrong in this case, if he felt she was refusing to pay the police should have been called


Your argument is flawed, the passenger had a contract (verbal) to be conveyed along the regular route (as normal) not through some (illegal?) yard with gates at the whim of the driver, doubtless he would have wanted the regular fare for the shorter route, seems he got it wrong and might yet feel the full force of the law and public opinion and his base could kick him off...


If you took a passenger down a toll road on YOUR whim/decision would you add the toll fees to the fare?


I put forward 3/4 possible scenarios.........try to keep it in perspective ole chap.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:21 pm 
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I put forward 3/4 possible scenarios.........try to keep it in perspective ole chap.


you compared the victim to a shoplifter

i doubt that would hold up as a defence in court

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:50 pm 
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I put forward 3/4 possible scenarios.........try to keep it in perspective ole chap.


you compared the victim to a shoplifter

i doubt that would hold up as a defence in court



Either way it is theft.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:09 pm 
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I put forward 3/4 possible scenarios.........try to keep it in perspective ole chap.


you compared the victim to a shoplifter

i doubt that would hold up as a defence in court



Either way it is theft.


nothing was taken, passengers never left the car, the driver is looking at 12 months porridge or more with luck

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:49 pm 
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nothing was taken, passengers never left the car, the driver is looking at 12 months porridge or more with luck




Let us try and put this to bed as it is out of context. In this instance it would appear that nothing was taken. The question was asked of "Their" not "Her", that to me is a general question.

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Has holding someone against their will got legs on this?



My take is this.......if someone is trying to steal or deprive a store of its money - can they hold that person against their will! Of course they can.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:23 pm 
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nothing was taken, passengers never left the car, the driver is looking at 12 months porridge or more with luck




Let us try and put this to bed as it is out of context. In this instance it would appear that nothing was taken. The question was asked of "Their" not "Her", that to me is a general question.

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Has holding someone against their will got legs on this?



My take is this.......if someone is trying to steal or deprive a store of its money - can they hold that person against their will! Of course they can.


But the driver inflated the fare by taking an unusal route , he cocked up and hes the one that will pay now, in many cases a woman in a taxi that ends up blocked by a locked gate could be expecting a sexualt attack, is that part of your shoplifting scenario?

might be best if the driver left town for a while

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:24 pm 
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Cabby john 1, i cant believe you are prepared to condone the outrageous behaviour of this slime ball taxi driver, if this is the standard to which you aspire i worry about your future

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:06 am 
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Cabby john 1, i cant believe you are prepared to condone the outrageous behaviour of this slime ball taxi driver, if this is the standard to which you aspire i worry about your future


You can worry about what you like - not bothered....read the post properly #-o

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:42 am 
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Cabby john 1, i cant believe you are prepared to condone the outrageous behaviour of this slime ball taxi driver, if this is the standard to which you aspire i worry about your future


You can worry about what you like - not bothered....read the post properly #-o



The driver is about to feel the consequences and lets see how that pans out

Its pretty obvious (to the sane) that he GOT IT WRONG, instead of the usual fare for fewer miles, he ended up MAKING A FCK UP and may just have cost himself his job (at least) or his clean criminal record (LETS HOPE)

The Industrial estate may even have been private property (sounds like it with gates being locked) so that kidnap, extortion and trespass!

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Last night one of our drivers was sent on a job to pick a regular customer up, when he picked her up he went a different way to what she unusually goes, he went through an industrial estate only to find out the gate at the other end was locked, he then came back on himself and went a totally different route making the fare more expensive, she knows the price because she has the job regular.


What he SHOULD have said was "oh sugar, the gates are locked, dont worry the fares the same" and walked away with his life intact, greedy ba5tard

If you get something wrong who pays, you or the punter?

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:25 am 
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What he SHOULD have said was "oh sugar, the gates are locked, dont worry the fares the same" and walked away with his life intact, greedy ba5tard

If you get something wrong who pays, you or the punter?




It has already been answered #-o....When I said he takes the hit, I did not mean punch/slap/kicking :roll: - "The hit", like out of his pocket e.g he loses the money/he charges the normal fare/she loses nothing :oops:


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She was telling him all the time that he was going the wrong way.



Then he takes the hit - no question.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 1:03 pm 
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He needs to be an ex-cabbie ASAP

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:42 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Cabby john 1, i cant believe you are prepared to condone the outrageous behaviour of this slime ball taxi driver, if this is the standard to which you aspire i worry about your future


You can worry about what you like - not bothered....read the post properly #-o



The driver is about to feel the consequences and lets see how that pans out

Its pretty obvious (to the sane) that he GOT IT WRONG, instead of the usual fare for fewer miles, he ended up MAKING A FCK UP and may just have cost himself his job (at least) or his clean criminal record (LETS HOPE)

The Industrial estate may even have been private property (sounds like it with gates being locked) so that kidnap, extortion and trespass!

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Last night one of our drivers was sent on a job to pick a regular customer up, when he picked her up he went a different way to what she unusually goes, he went through an industrial estate only to find out the gate at the other end was locked, he then came back on himself and went a totally different route making the fare more expensive, she knows the price because she has the job regular.


What he SHOULD have said was "oh sugar, the gates are locked, dont worry the fares the same" and walked away with his life intact, greedy ba5tard

If you get something wrong who pays, you or the punter?



The gates are on private land and are owned by Taylors Transport.


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A.S Taylors of Barton?

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:17 pm 
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A.S Taylors of Barton?



No Taylors of Kirkby in Ashfield.


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