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I agree!

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So neither the circuit nor the driver would comment?

Now there's a surprise

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TDO WROTE
So neither the circuit nor the driver would comment?



Enough said dont you think

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Loads a love from BERTIE !!

So why not go through the proper channels and make a complaint without getting yourself charged?

All she had to do was report the driver? The milage would have been checked against the job and stories given by both parties. The chances are she would have been reimbursed if the driver was a fault.

The ball was in her court from start to finish. The address the money or lack of, not coming back out the house getting charged and ending up in court.

Do you know of any taxi driver who would charge anyone £25.00 knowing he had taken someone the wrong way, call the police, have the person charged and then appear in court as a witness?

It stinks all right but people believe what they want to believe. If you want to blame the cabby be my guest.

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it was the Doctor who priced the job up at £5, other than that we don't know.

Yes but don't you think it would be better to blame the Cabby because he used his Sat Nav?


Not something a real cabby would do?

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Why did the driver agree to take the passenger to an address that he had no real clue as to where the heck it was?

For instance, last week, an intending passenger asked me to take her to a School that I had not heard of, on a street that I KNEW was not in my licensed area. (Edinburgh Crescent) there just isn't one in Lincoln. But, after a little questioning, I realised it was actually in Bourne, about thirty miles away. After a visit to a cash point, I took the lady to Bourne, and a quick check of my A-Z for Lincolnshire, took her directly to her destination. She gratefully paid her fare, and thanked me for my professionalism. Isn't THAT the way to do it?

Or, should I have driven her around Lincoln, for an hour, dumped her back at the station, and demanded £25 for the guided tour?

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Oh, and by the way, remind me never, ever, to get into a taxi in Scotland, will you?

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I find the whole thing very strange, Sat Nav is just a tool for the job, but if you dont know the spelling it's no use, and who does not carry a street atlas with them?

I just do not accept that someone would get a hire from a hospital, and if it was the Ayr Hospital that she had been taken to, that is a distance of about five miles from the intended destination, drives back near to the destination but cant find it,drives round in circles but still cant find it, drives 5 miles back to the Hospital, checks the spelling and then drives another 5 miles back to the original destination, a distance of approximately 15miles, it's just so bizarre , ten miles to check the spelling of a destination?

Either the story in the paper is wildly inaccurate, the driver hopelessly incompetent, or something else has occured that we do not know about, but the original story seems very strange to me.

I still think the woman was trying it on.

If she had said at the time that the driver would have to wait for his money, then that sounds more plausible.

But the fact that it has now reached court means, to me, that she didn't want to pay and has made no serious attempt to pay until the court papers arrived.

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Absolutely

But perhaps she's been reading from some of your posts skull and decided to follow your lead, eg:



Maybe she just refused to kiss ass, as regards the taxi driver, and I don't really blame her, as I said earlier.

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Well as I see on the facts as stated I wouldn't pay it myself, so there may be some mileage in what you say, but I still say she's in the right.

To me the crux of the matter is not whether or not payment was made, but what a reasonable payment should have been?

And unless the mix up was patently the girl's fault then I can't see why she should be responsible for the whole fare.

I mean, recently I did a £25 fare which should have been about £10, but it wasn't my fault because the passenger told me the wrong address (it wasn't thier fault either because they had been given the wrong address).

On the other hand I've often been given the correct address and set off for the wrong address, which is clearly my mistake thus I've reset the meter/adjusted it accordingly.

Now if someone came to me in my town and asked to go to Garry Thomson Street, but spelt Garry with one r instead of two and to that extent I took them on a wild goose chase then I don't think they should be penalised, since they shouldn't have to pay for a crap taxi driver's mistake.

It might be different if it was twenty miles away, in which case it might be unreasonable for the taxi driver to know, thus any detour arising might reasonably be paid for by the passenger.

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Must be something in the water up there.

300 MILES IN A TAXI? THAT'S SCRUM SLIP-UP

A SOUTH AFRICAN rugby player ended up on a 300-mile mystery tour of Scotland after a mix-up with an airport taxi driver. Kent-based Springbok Gary Rosewarne flew north for a tournament and tried to join his team-mates at their hotel in the Wigtownshire fishing village of Port William.

But the cabbie who met him at Glasgow Airport headed for FORT WILLIAM instead. Gary, 27, spent eight hours in the back of the cab, running up a bill of £487.20. However, he insisted that he enjoyed his marathon journey. He said: "The scenery was beautiful - until it got dark, that is."

Gary's wild goose chase began after his club, Aylesford Bulls, were invited to send a team to a sevens tournament in Wigtown last Saturday. The rest of the players flew from London to Prestwick and arrived safely at their hotel within three hours. But because of a problem with passports, Gary had to take a separate flight to Glasgow. The tournament sponsors arranged for a taxi to collect him at the airport.

The cabbie met up with Gary as planned, and they left the airport at around 7.30pm the night before the tournament. But instead of heading for the far south-west corner of Scotland, the taxi drove north on the 100-mile trek to Fort William. Gary said: "It was a 100-mile drive but I was looking out of the window and enjoying the scenery.

"When we arrived in Fort William, I called our manager to find out where the hotel was. "He said it was in the harbour area - and there's no harbour in Fort William. "The taxi driver realised we should actually have been in Port William. "I decided the only thing to do was to just keep driving. So we turned around and headed back to Glasgow, arriving around midnight.

"From there we headed down to Port William, another 100 miles away but the driver got lost on the way and we ended up in Dumfries. "I finally arrived in Port William at about 3am. It was an eight-hour trip in the end and we clocked up more than 300 miles."

After grabbing a few hours sleep, Gary helped his team finish second in the Seriously Strong Sevens, hosted by Newton Stewart Rugby Club and sponsored by Scottish cheese firm Lactalis McLelland. He said: "Next time I'm in a Scottish taxi, I'll be making sure the driver knows exactly where I'm going from the beginning.

"But in the end, everyone saw the funny side and the scenery on the drive was beautiful, until it got dark. "I'm just glad the competition sponsor is picking up the fare. The taxi driver won't have made that amount on one job for a while."

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Remind me again, to never ever, get into a scottish taxi!

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I agree but this is were we came in and the cabby that got her charged would probably say the same thing.

So who do wee believe TDO super cabby who doesn't use sat nav or crappy Cabby who does?


Little reminder to myself never admit to using Sat Nav on TDO

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