I have been trying to avoid blogging about the radio talk show host Michael Savage. He recently made some nasty comments to the effect that the rise in numbers of children with autism is attributable to something akin to permissive parenting. While his comments are outrageous, they have little to do with the "law" part of the special education law blog. Well I guess it was inevitable that the la
When the story of the disgraced New York’s ex governor Eliot Spitzer broke I wasn’t surprised at all. It’s not that I knew about his rendezvous with high priced hookers, but it’s due to my long experience of driving hookers to men with and without power. Let me break it down for you ladies, if [...]
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A taxi driver will ask municipal court in June to delay ruling on four fines until the Quebec Human Rights Commission hears his complaint
A veteran Montreal cabbie who has been fined a total of $764 for having photos of his daughter and the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, two religious symbols and a Remembrance Day poppy in his car is going to court with a special request. (...)
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Damage done to the front of a stopped vehicle on a downtown London street, Saturday (April 26), has London police looking to speak with a cab driver for the London U-Need-A-Cab company. (...)
Putney's Casey MacLaren is looking forward to more than just presents and cards when he turns 21 at the end of the month - London's youngest ever taxi driver will get his first fare too. (...)
Update: 12:20PM TWO tourists were tricked by a taxi driver and his accomplice who fled with their bag containing a Samsung mobile phone, a Panasonic digital camera, a Sony digital camera, assorted bank cards and $F370 and $A50. (...)
Putney’s Casey MacLaren is looking forward to more than just presents and cards when he turns 21 at the end of the month - London’s youngest ever taxi driver will get his first fare too. (...)
Putney's Casey MacLaren is looking forward to more than just presents and cards when he turns 21 at the end of the month - London's youngest ever taxi driver will get his first fare too. (...)
No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice. Years ago, Harvey Mackay, told a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point. He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to open the back passenger door for Harvey. He handed him a laminated card and said:"I'm Wally, your driver. While I'm loading your bags in the trunk I'd like you to read my mission statement."Taken aback, Harvey read the card. It said:Wally's Mission Statement:To get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest and cheapest way po
The cabbie made famous for relinquishing the drivers' seat of his taxi to Michael Schumacher is now considering offers to sell the Opel mini-van. Since the nine-seater made international headlines for getting a seven time world champion and his family to a German airport on time, it has doubled in value, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag claims. "More than ten people are interested in buying it," the taxi driver, Tuncer Yilmaz, confirmed. "One has offered 63,000 euros, and I need the money - because of the Schumi-Ride I could be in big trouble with the police," he confirmed. Coburg traffic authority chief Kai Holland confirmed to Bild newspaper that he will meet with Yilmaz, because the story appears to be "an offence against the Personnel Transport Act.' Schumacher, meanwhile, faces the prospect of a small fine. "It would be ridiculous to heavily punish the taxi driver after he kindly helped Michael. Wouldn't we all prefer to have helpful taxi drivers?" Schumacher's long-time mana
I found this video interview of John Smeaton at YouTube. Listen close as his Scottish accent is very thick. NICE headline. Sometimes the Brits do get it just right. ~RJH The Daily Record article link HERO CABBIE: I KICKED BURNING TERRORIST SO HARD IN BALLS THAT I TORE A TENDONHERO CABBIE..By Karen BaleA HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects told yesterday how he booted one of them in the privates.Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.But he said last night: "He didn't even flinch. I couldn't believe he didn't go down."A doctor told me later I'd damaged a tendon in my foot."The burned suspect was named last night as Khalid Ahmed, a Lebanese doctor.He is critically ill with burns at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where he is believed to have worked.
The hippocampus is thought to be essential for navigation. Surprisingly, a paper published last year reported that a London Taxi driver, who suffered hippocampus damage on both sides of the brain, could successfully navigate around much of London.
London black cab drivers must pass 'The Knowledge' to get a license.
It involves memorising London streets and being able to work out, from memory, the best route between any two places in the city.
In 2003, neuroscientist Dr Eleanor Maguire and her team won the Ig Nobel Prize (a humorous award for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced") for a study that found that the hippocampi of London Taxi drivers were larger than average, possibly because the drivers are constantly exercising their spatial memory.
Despite winning the Ig Nobel, this paper has been very important in understanding both spatial memory and how the brain grows during adult life.
The same team of researchers published a paper last year, loo
A TAXI driver for a Silloth firm will not be banned from the roads, despite having 12 points on his licence and driving without the right licence or insurance.
Robert Tinnion, who drove for Select Cabs, was prosecuted by Allerdale council after an anonymous tip-off.
He appeared at Keswick and West Allerdale Magistrates Court yesterday and admitted driving a taxi without a hackney licence and having no insurance.
But magistrates chose not to ban him because it would cause him “exceptional hardship.”
Tinnion, 45, of Frizington Road, Frizington was given six penalty points and fined £100 for each of the two dates he drove a hackney carriage for Select Cabs without insurance on April 24 and 25, 2006.
There were no separate penalties for the two charges of driving the hackney carriage while unlicensed.
Select Cabs owner, Stanley Glover, 56, of Pica Cottages, Pica, pleaded guilty in court last September to charges of aiding and abetting Tinnion to drive a hackney carriage
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A HELPFUL taxi driver went to jump-start the car of a seriously ill woman who needed to collect her medicine - and received a parking ticket for his troubles.
Joe Cartwright, of Blundell Street, Holloway, went to help Linda Dingley, who is in her 60s. She needed to collect drugs which had been left at relatives [...]
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Two cab fares are suspected of robbing their driver at gunpoint after a struggle early Saturday moments after he picked them up for a ride, police said.
Raron Tibbs, 19, of Camden, and Jamie R. Warren, 18, of Lindenwold, are charged with armed robbery, firearms offenses and conspiracy, Police Chief Ronald M. Morello said.
Patrolman [...]
By TONY BLAIS, SUN MEDIA
EDMONTON — The distraught widow of a slain cab driver sobbed as she was helped out of a murder trial yesterday while a witness tearfully described the attack.
Farhia Yussuf, the wife of Hassan Yussuf and mother of their seven children, came and went several times during the testimony, which left many [...]
A Bangkok taxi driver yesterday turned over US and Taiwanese currency worth around Bt140,000 left behind by a Taiwanese tourist.
The relieved passenger, Chen Ching Ning, gave the honest cabbie Rian Wiangsamut, 45, a Bt4,000 reward.
On Thursday evening around 8pm, Rian called the Sor Wor Por 91 radio station’s 1644 hotline and reported he’d found a [...]
Tell me something. Why is it that the state is not doing more to protect our young girls from what seems to be a growing number of paedophiles, a large number of whom are going around under the guise of being cab and bus drivers? Let me say here that not all cab and bus [...]
A Maitland taxi driver says local police failed to respond to his calls for help after he was attacked by a passenger with an iron bar.
John Magin says the incident happened on New Year’s Eve after a dispute with three passengers over the non-payment of a fare.
He says one of them swung the bar at [...]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation promoted its story on Lansing’s harmonica-playing cabbie this way:
“Today, we bring you … the tale of Richard ‘Rick’ Shaw - a taxi driver in Lansing, Mich. And the lesson … goes something like this: If you play your harmonica for rock stars who do their own laundry, you may end up [...]
By Dan P. Blake
Chicago police are searching for a taxi driver who sped off after striking and critically injuring a 26-year-old woman in the Wicker Park neighborhood early this morning.
Witnesses reported that the 4-door cab - yellow in color - was driving at a high rate of speed when it ran a red light around [...]
By LYNDA COHEN
Sajid Shah had just driven the four teens in his cab about two miles when he heard one yell that order. Then he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. "A knife," he thought.
That’s when the teen in the passenger seat ran out the door as the car idled on [...]
Deepak Sawant had stopped on a deserted patch on the Eastern Express Highway at Vikhroli when five youth pounced on him
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Mumbai, Jan 13:Â Five youths tied Deepak Sawant's hands and legs before robbing him. This is the first case of robbery on the highway in the past two years
On Wednesday night when Deepak Sawant, 32, [...]
Dean Anglin, a taxi driver from Pleasant Hill near Boy Walk, St. Catherine, was fined $20,000 or six months after he pleaded guilty to offering a $1,000 bribe to a policeman in December last year, for a traffic violation.
Anglin, 46 years old, appeared in the Linstead RM Court on January 10 after he was charged [...]
It's not just in Minneapolis where there's potentially dangerous Somali Muslims living. Even in Nashville, there seems to be some, including the following one who attacked two of his passengers (via Michelle Malkin):NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A local cab driver allegedly tried to run over two customers after a fight over religion became heated.The incident happened early Sunday morning on the Vanderbilt campus and left one man hospitalized and a cab driver arrested, said police.Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft. One of the passengers, Andrew Nelson, managed to outrun the cab but Jeremy Invus was taken to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with serious injuries, said police.Ahmed has been convicted of misdemeanors
Kate Moss has long been known as a connoisseur of classic cars, and now has topped them all with an old school British cab Kate's latest acquisition is something that comes in very handy as seen above, She's even offering her friends rides
London, A British man who killed an elderly Indian driver by mowing him down with his own taxi has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Luke Aujila, 21, who was inebriated, attacked 71-year-old Gian Chand Bajar after an argument over fare in Gravesend, Kent, on May 23 last year.
Bajar, a father of ...
WhyFame.com - Kate Moss has long been known as a connoisseur of classic cars, and now has topped them all with an old school British cab. Kate's latest acquisition is something that comes in very handy as seen above, She's even offering her friends rides. Does she work for tips? And oh, she must be one of London's most fashionable cabdrivers, not to many wear...
