Taxi Driver Online

A bit different from the usual scenario of (usually) women being lured into fake taxis. Here the drunk thought a random car was a cab, got in and kicked off

I'm sure Sussex will appreciate the reference to India Not sure if the drunk is having a dig at the occupants of the car or the taxi market in India, or maybe both

But not likely to be much proper trade news around at the moment, unless it's coronavirus-related - the press obviously preoccupied with the one subject at the moment


Drunk hospital worker abused two men and attacked woman in Dundee after thinking their car was a taxi

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/d ... as-a-taxi/

A hospital worker drunkenly entered a car he thought was a taxi before making racial remarks towards two men and attacking a woman.

Reece Cuthbert, 25, demanded money from the men inside the car before grabbing the hair of a woman who filmed his abusive conduct.

During his tirade, a sozzled Cuthbert said: “I’ll ******* knock you out,” and accused the men of running an “illegal taxi”.

It was revealed at Dundee Sheriff Court that the woman had left the front passenger side of the car to withdraw money from an ATM on Reform Street.

Cuthbert, a maintenance technician at Ninewells Hospital, got into the front seat of the vehicle, believing it was a taxi.

Prosecutor Lora Apostolova said an argument ensued and Cuthbert began to make violent threats, including telling one of the men: “I’ll punch your puss. Give me £20 and I will be gone.”

Ms Apostolova told Sheriff Lorna Drummond: “The lady who went to get money saw the altercation and approached the car.

“The accused continued to shout abusive remarks saying this was a ‘******* illegal taxi’ and ‘we’re not in India we’re in Scotland.’

“The lady was filming the incident and stopped it before phoning 999. The accused got out of the car and started being aggressive towards her.

“He ran towards her and he grabbed her hair from behind and pulled her hair.”

The court heard that Cuthbert let go of her hair and ran away after she shouted out in pain. Police later caught up with Cuthbert and arrested him.

Cuthbert, of Haddington Avenue, pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on October 27 2019 on Reform Street by shouting, swearing, threatening violence and demanding money from Munawar Ali and Nazir Valimohamed. He admitted that the offence was racially aggravated.

He also admitted pulling on Nadya Elbozidi’s hair during the same incident.

Defence solicitor Carolyn Leckie said Cuthbert had consumed far too much alcohol on a night out with friends and had become separated from his group.

Ms Leckie said Cuthbert was “highly-embarrassed” after viewing the mobile phone footage of the incident and has since stopped drinking alcohol altogether.

She added that her client had been suffering from a number of personal difficulties and was drinking to excess at that time.

“A lot of what he’s saying (in the video) does not really make any sense,” Ms Leckie said.

“It’s drunken ramblings. He is highly embarrassed. He is concerned by his behaviour.

“He absolutely accepts responsibility and he offers an apology. It is not behaviour he at all justifies in any way.”

Before being ordered to pay a total of £1,300 in compensation, Sheriff Drummond told Cuthbert: “It’s obviously not acceptable, you obviously recognise that yourself and you have behaved in a really inappropriate manner.”

Think that should be spelt 'pus' rather than 'puss', so pronounced like something that would ooze from a poisoned wound rather than 'puss' as in, er, pussycat.

'Pus' is Scots slang for 'face', so basically he's threatening to punch them in the face

and I thought he was offering a Glaswegian kiss

bet it'll take a long while to live that down

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

In India anything will take you anywhere.

And taxis/Uber/Ola/horses/elephants/bikes/tuk tuks(they call them Autos)/buses/trains are all as cheap as chips.

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IDFIMH

In India, how much are Chips?

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

Very cheap.

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IDFIMH

depends how many transistors on them and what they are for

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Parallels with the Dundee incident, in that some headbanger targeted people at random, although a real taxi this time, and the driver got involved.

And this one in my *current* licensing area as opposed to Dundee, where I worked previously. But Kelty one of those places the other side of Fife where I had to check on Google that it is actually in Fife.


Reveller suffers terrifying taxi ordeal

https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/1 ... xi-ordeal/

A KELTY man who tried to drag a stranger out of a taxi in a terrifying drunken attack has been given a six-month jail sentence.

Michael Munro carried out the alarming offence after the woman and her boyfriend had asked the taxi to stop so they could use a cash machine.

His appearance at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday came just a day after he received an 18-month sentence for assaulting his former partner.

Munro, 32, of Keltyhill Road, had earlier admitted a charge that on October 4 last year, at Main Street, Crossford, he assaulted a woman when he seized her by the head and attempted to drag her from a seat within a vehicle through an open window.

He also behaved in a threatening or abusive manner, shouted, uttered threats of violence and struggled with a man.

Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said the woman and her boyfriend had been on a night out and got a taxi just before 1am. They asked the driver to stop at the ATM and, at that point, Munro approached the vehicle.

He leant into the far side of the back seat where his victim was sitting and then grabbed her by the head and tried to pull her out of the seat.

The court was told: "She was terrified at this point. The taxi driver got out to intervene and at that point the accused was seen to struggle with him.

"The accused then tried to enter and had to be restrained by the driver."

Solicitor Alexander Flett confirmed that his client had not known by the woman.

"The incident is clearly one where far too much drink had been taken by Mr Munro," he said. "He has little or no recollection of what had taken place. He had been out drinking with his brother and his brother had seen the very end of the incident but he has very little recollection of that.

"He can only apologise for his actions on the night in question."

Sheriff Alastair Brown said he would limit the sentence because of the punishment handed out the previous day for the assault on his former partner. He jailed Munro for six months which will run consecutively to his other jail sentence.

"You must have caused great distress and concern for the unfortunate young woman who you attacked," he said. "It was absolutely unacceptable that you should have done that to her and that you should have struggled and threatened the taxi driver who was simply trying to help."