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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:24 pm 
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There is nothing in the report to sugest that he had a badge. If he did indeed have a badge the report would have said that it was a licensed minicab driver picking up illegally or more likely it would have said taxi driver. I think that for probably the first time the report is correct in that it states that the couple thought it was a minicab but it wasn't. Therfore "unlicenced".


How do you have an unlicensed minicab driver if they have no license. Surely if they are picking up punters off the street that would make them an unlicensed taxi driver, imo the article is wrong

The couple thought it was a minicab. They didn't think it was a taxi. It was neither.


CORRECT IT WAS A TOUT :twisted:

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:28 pm 
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trotskys twin wrote:
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How do you have an unlicensed minicab driver if they have no license. Surely if they are picking up punters off the street that would make them an unlicensed taxi driver, imo the article is wrong

The couple thought it was a minicab. They didn't think it was a taxi. It was neither.


CORRECT IT WAS A TOUT :twisted:

Yes it was a tout!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:19 am 
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grandad wrote:
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Grandad wrote:
There is nothing in the report to sugest that he had a badge. If he did indeed have a badge the report would have said that it was a licensed minicab driver picking up illegally or more likely it would have said taxi driver. I think that for probably the first time the report is correct in that it states that the couple thought it was a minicab but it wasn't. Therfore "unlicenced".


How do you have an unlicensed minicab driver if they have no license. Surely if they are picking up punters off the street that would make them an unlicensed taxi driver, imo the article is wrong

The couple thought it was a minicab. They didn't think it was a taxi. It was neither.


So the couple were bright enough to realise the difference between a taxi and a minicab but not bright enough to know they shouldn't have got into a minicab they hadn't booked

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TT wrote:
CORRECT IT WAS A TOUT


I always thought that touts were the ones that would arrange the illegal fares not the ones driving the vehicles

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toots wrote:
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How do you have an unlicensed minicab driver if they have no license. Surely if they are picking up punters off the street that would make them an unlicensed taxi driver, imo the article is wrong

The couple thought it was a minicab. They didn't think it was a taxi. It was neither.


So the couple were bright enough to realise the difference between a taxi and a minicab but not bright enough to know they shouldn't have got into a minicab they hadn't booked

It wasn't a minicab. They only thought it was a minicab. We don't know if they had actually booked a minicab. I wouldn't say that they were not very bright. I would say that they were downright stupid.

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The couple thought it was a minicab. They didn't think it was a taxi. It was neither.

I'm not even sure that's the case.

To me they thought the vehicle was one that was immediately available to hire off the street i.e. a taxi.

For any vehicle to be an unlicensed minicab the couple would have had to ring a number for it.

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