Taxi Driver Online

This is 'Breaking news' on the Wiltshire Times website.

Maybe a slow news day in Wiltshire

So I wonder why they're highlighting this particular incident in this way. Maybe it's because it's a good photo


Wiltshire taxi passenger 'ran away' without paying

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/2 ... ut-paying/

Police have appealed for information after a taxi passenger allegedly left without paying.


Image: Wiltshire Police/Wiltshire Times

Wiltshire Police said the incident happened on July 31 when an unknown man took a taxi from Melksham to Trowbridge.

The force said the passenger left the taxi when he arrived and ran away without making any attempt to pay the fare.

Police have now released an image of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident.

Anyone who recognises him is asked to contact PC Peacock by email at 2777@wiltshire.police.uk

Information should be provided quoting crime reference 54260092726.

Had to look a bit to find the original source of this one - it's on the Trowbridge Police Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/TrowbridgePolice/

And which in turn reminds me of what always springs to mind when I hear Trowbridge mentioned - ex-Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell's song which I think alludes to the slow pace of life in Trowbridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7__8lyoCk

Catchy lo-fi tune, though

And who I think was the last live act I saw - but in Dunfermline earlier this year, and not in Trowbridge

The last live act I saw was Spandau Ballet in the early 80s.

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slightly less embarrassing than going to see Jason Donavan or Kylie

The last band I went to see was Ghost danse in the mid 80's

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

The act I saw before Spandau Ballet was David Cassidy, with a very very nice (not Mrs Sx) young lady.

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Ironically, the last football match I went to was possibly in the 1980s - when Mark Walters debuted for Rangers at Celtic Park, which was possibly the New Years' Day fixture on Celtic's centenary in 1988. But let's not mention the bananas etc thrown on the pitch by some of the Celtic fans

And I also saw Tony Hadley solo at the SECC Glasgow a couple of years ago, as part of one of those 80s nights, or similar. Unsurprisingly, as I recall it he just did old Spandau Ballet stuff

And I'm a bit of a Kylie fan as well - or at least I've got a couple of her greatest hits CDs

Anyway, interesting to compare ticket prices from the 1980s to now - the tickets for the Celtic v Rangers match were around £2.50/£3.50 or so (you could stand on the terracing back then, pardon the pun).

As were gigs - I saw some of the big punk bands back then (and people like Kim Wilde and Howard Jones) in Dundee and the tickets were maybe £3-£5 or so. Meanwhile, the first CDs that appeared around that time were something like £12 or so, thus double the price of going to a big football match or gig.

Now you can buy classic rock CDs for £5-£10 or so, while a gig or football match would be ten times that price?

Last thing I think you'd do back then to impress a young woman would be to go with her to a David Cassidy gig

I suspect her attention would be wholly elsewhere, as opposed to directed anywhere towards her male companion

We did both manage to outlive David Cassidy, though

(Or at least, we're both still alive, albeit we haven't quite reached his age yet - he died at 67 )