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Gotcha! Cameras capture cabbie littering the street


This is the moment a taxi driver was caught on camera dumping fast food wrappers in a quiet residential street late at night.

The litter lout cabbie was captured on CCTV cleaning out the back of his car on to the roadway after a passenger had left the remains of his supper in the back seat.

Resident Billy Doyle filmed the shameful episode outside his home in Ashton, Preston. And now the city’s Hackney Carriage Association has stepped in to condemn the driver’s actions as “dreadful.”

“It is totally indefensible,” said Mark Selley, secretary of the PHCA. “Dumping rubbish in the street when there are bins everywhere is awful.

“If this driver can be identified from the pictures then it should be reported to the city council. Maybe they can shame him and make sure he doesn’t do it again.”

Mr Doyle, who set up cameras on his home following a vandalism attack on his car, checked the footage after finding kebab papers and scraps of food strewn across the road one morning at the junction of Elm Avenue and Cedar Avenue. “The street was a right mess so I wound the tape back to see if I could find out what had happened. At around 12.30am a cab draws up, drops a passenger off and then the driver gets out, opens the back doors and scoops the rubbish out on to the road, gets back in and drives off..

“If a passenger had left some litter in the back seat then, OK, it isn’t nice. But drop it off in a bin. There are plenty around.

“I’m sure someone will be able to recognise him. Certainly other cabbies will. I’m not after a witchhunt, but I’d like someone to have a word with him so that, hopefully, he won’t do anything like this again. We pride ourselves in keeping our street clean and tidy and then someone comes along and makes a complete mess of it. I’m disgusted.”

Mr Selley added: “People leaving litter in the back of cabs is a big bug bear with drivers. The last thing you want is for the next fare to get in and sit on all that stuff.

“But that is no defence for what this man did. Nothing can excuse this sort of behaviour and, if he can be identified, he certainly won’t get any support from the rest of the city’s taxi drivers.”

source & video: http://www.lep.co.uk/news/gotcha-camera ... -1-6737995

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

My God, hang the bas***d.

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IDFIMH

Hardly conclusive evidence from that bit of footage...Be easier to prove who shot down Flight MH17 as that guy throwing chip papers down, still It's of National importance and chip wrapper could destroy our beautiful planet.

The chances are that it was one of the guys neighbours who had tried to turn the drivers cab into a landfill site.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

Guy gets in my car last night eating a flaky pie (I asked him not to).Ends up with crumbs all down his front and in his lap, so just casually brushes them all off onto the floor - an hour after I'd vacuumed the car at start of shift.

Then there's the ones with scratchcards, and the women who think a taxi journeys an ideal time to clear out their handbags of old bus tickets, tissues and any other detritus they've been carrying around.

Drives me f***ing mad.

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IDFIMH

It's Glitter on Clothes and Bags that P*sses me off, It gets into every nook and cranny, on your hands, on your face and just when you think you've hoovered it all up even more appears

Isnt RIPA for covert cameras - not overt?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

RIPA is for overt & I presumed covert as well. Definitely overt though.

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Chris The Fish

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