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Taxi driver ordered to remove cross from dashboard

A TAXI boss has hit out after York council officials told one of her drivers – a devout Roman Catholic – to remove a cross from his vehicle’s dashboard. City of York Council told Clair Cook, owner of AnD Taxis in Blossom Street, that following a complaint by a 15-year-old schoolboy passenger that the cross was a “fake penis,” officers had taken the view it was “very phallic” and should be removed.

But she branded the complaint “ridiculous,” and said she was appalled that anyone could think it was anything other than a religious ornament. Clair also said she believed that if the driver had been carrying a symbol of any other religious faith, the council would have reacted with more caution and investigated fully before any decision was made to ask for it to be removed.

The driver, who does not want to be identified, said he was a Roman Catholic and had bought the cross on holiday in Greece about six years ago. He said he had put it on his dashboard a couple of weeks ago because he was proud of it and of his faith. Asked what his reaction was when he heard the complaint that it was phallic, he said: “Incredulity. I couldn’t believe that anyone could think it wasn’t a cross. “I have taken it off the dashboard as requested, because I do not want to lose my licence, but I do not think this has been handled properly.”

Clair said the complaint had been from a boy who was being taken to school in the taxi, who had also complained about the driver’s driving ability. However, the driver had had no previous customer complaints, and was a very reputable, reserved driver, she said. “We almost complain he is our slowest driver!” she joked.

“I am personally deeply offended and very sympathetic for the driver. Not only is an ornament of this nature a religious one, but the complaint and its implication is a very serious one. “The safety of the passengers is always my number one priority however, so is my drivers’ reputation and trust.”

Colin Rumford, head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards at City of York Council, said: “City of York Council takes any complaints raised by members of the public very seriously. “In this case a complaint was received from a child regarding, what they thought, was an inappropriate item in a taxi.

“Careful consideration is always taken when any complaints are received and depending on the nature of the complaint, officers will take relevant action where necessary. “In this instance it appears that the taxi operator was wrongly advised to remove the item and our intervention should have been confined to making them aware of the complaint. It would then be a matter for the taxi operator to resolve with the customer.”

Article with picture of said cross

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IDFIMH

Spot on.

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IDFIMH

If the bell end of the Cross had been sticking out of the fly of a very blue hued taxi driver...then, just possibly some little Spotty semi pubescent oik of a boy aged 15 just might see it as being a dick....but then again a little Spotty semi pubescent oik of a boy aged 15 would see something sexual in a plate of Rollmop Herring as their Hormones tend to over rule their brains..

FFS

even mines bigger than that

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I take three

They are white faced when i drop em off, never seem to say much....

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Surprised the lad didn't complain about the knob in the middle of the dashboard

I wish Toots would not leave her toys lying around when she goes on the trips around the UK

If he thinks that looks like a kn*b then the boy has serious problems!!!

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if the lad was in a taxi to school theres a good chance hes "special needs", aspergers, autism, god knows what, maybe his eye sight poor even, hes certainly no biology student

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It looks nothing like a knob, except, mine is blue with a large white spot on it.

Cab driver wrongly told to remove cross

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

A Roman Catholic taxi driver was “wrongly advised” to remove a cross from display in his cab after a teenage customer complained that it looked phallic.

But now officials at City of York Council have admitted that they got it wrong.

The driver, who did not wish to be named, had been displaying the cross on his dashboard as a sign of his faith.

Ridiculous

Council officials asked Clair Cook, the owner of AnD taxis in York, to make sure that the cross was removed after a 15-year-old schoolboy complained that it was a “fake penis”.

Miss Cook branded the complaint as “ridiculous”, and dismissed another complaint made by the boy about her driver’s driving ability.

She said: “I am personally deeply offended and very sympathetic for the driver. Not only is an ornament of this nature a religious one, but the complaint and its implication is a very serious one.”

Licence

The driver expressed his shock, saying: “I couldn’t believe that anyone could think it wasn’t a cross.

“I have taken it off the dashboard as requested, because I do not want to lose my licence, but I do not think this has been handled properly.”

Colin Rumford, the head of Environmental Health and Trading Standards at City of York Council, has now accepted that the complaint was badly managed.

Wrongly

He said: “In this instance, it appears that the taxi operator was wrongly advised to remove the item and our intervention should have been confined to making them aware of the complaint.

“It would then be a matter for the taxi operator to resolve with the customer.”

Last month it emerged that a Christian threatened with the sack for displaying a small cross in his company van looked set to reach a compromise agreement with his employer.

Hailed

Colin Atkinson agreed to move the palm cross from the van’s dashboard to the outside of the glove box, and his boss removed a poster of Che Guevara from his office wall.

The agreement was hailed as a victory for common sense by commentators and church leaders. His case was supported by the Christian Legal Centre.

Source; http://www.christian.org.uk/news/cab-dr ... %99-cross/

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One Head of Licensing that is not afraid to admit a mistake was made and LET COMMON SENSE PREVAIL!!

A gold star for Colin Rumford!!

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is it just me but since the new goverment got in has the "Loony PC" brigade been backing off?

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