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Author:  Sussex [ Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:48 pm ]
Post subject:  How else do you deal with a whiffy punter?
Cab firm sorry for smell slur

A TAXI firm last night apologised for banning a disabled woman from using their cars because she was too smelly, it was reported today.

Cab operators at Edinburgh's Festival City Cars reportedly told Anne Campbell, 45, she had "hygiene problems" and refused to collect her from a bank, despite her using their service for five years to get to regular hospital appointments.

On Tuesday, Ms Campbell, from Craigmount, had used one of their cabs to get into town but the firm would not pick her up. It also barred her number from calling their offices.

Director Kevin Wood said: "The situation was handled incorrectly. We apologise unreservedly."
Author:  Skull [ Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: How else do you deal with a whiffy punter?
Sussex wrote:
Cab firm sorry for smell slur

A TAXI firm last night apologised for banning a disabled woman from using their cars because she was too smelly, it was reported today.

Cab operators at Edinburgh's Festival City Cars reportedly told Anne Campbell, 45, she had "hygiene problems" and refused to collect her from a bank, despite her using their service for five years to get to regular hospital appointments.

On Tuesday, Ms Campbell, from Craigmount, had used one of their cabs to get into town but the firm would not pick her up. It also barred her number from calling their offices.

Director Kevin Wood said: "The situation was handled incorrectly. We apologise unreservedly."


Was she smelly or not?
Author:  bloodnock [ Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: How else do you deal with a whiffy punter?
Skull wrote:
Sussex wrote:
Cab firm sorry for smell slur

A TAXI firm last night apologised for banning a disabled woman from using their cars because she was too smelly, it was reported today.

Cab operators at Edinburgh's Festival City Cars reportedly told Anne Campbell, 45, she had "hygiene problems" and refused to collect her from a bank, despite her using their service for five years to get to regular hospital appointments.

On Tuesday, Ms Campbell, from Craigmount, had used one of their cabs to get into town but the firm would not pick her up. It also barred her number from calling their offices.

Director Kevin Wood said: "The situation was handled incorrectly. We apologise unreservedly."


Was she smelly or not?


Someone obviously thought so..but then got gripped by the modern fear of speaking their mind for fear of upsetting the nations do gooders and trendy Government authority bodies.. ](*,)
Author:  tx_op [ Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:59 am ]
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Exceptions to Hire
39
The holder of a taxi licence shall not carry, or cause or permit to be carried in their taxi, any articles of a dirty, filthy or obnoxious nature or of an explosive or dangerous nature.
40
The holder of a taxi licence shall not knowingly carry, or cause or permit to be carried in the taxi, any passenger who has vermin on their person or whose clothing is in a foul or filthy condition.
41
The holder of a taxi licence shall not permit their taxi to be utilised for any illegal or immoral purpose.

Edinburgh's Licence conditions.
Author:  Nigel [ Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:47 am ]
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^^^^^^^^^ There you have it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Author:  skippy41 [ Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:07 pm ]
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Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:55 am ]
Post subject: 
Sussex wrote:
Cab firm sorry for smell slur

A taxi firm last night apologised for banning a disabled woman from using their cars because she was too smelly, it was reported today.

Cab operators at Edinburgh's Festival City Cars reportedly told Anne Campbell, 45, she had "hygiene problems" and refused to collect her from a bank, despite her using their service for five years to get to regular hospital appointments.

On Tuesday, Ms Campbell, from Craigmount, had used one of their cabs to get into town but the firm would not pick her up. It also barred her number from calling their offices.

Director Kevin Wood said: "The situation was handled incorrectly. We apologise unreservedly."

You don't deal with the matter by leaving the punter stranded at a bank!!

Where's the common sense!

Let's look at the facts.

She had been a customer of EFCC for five years & probably had 'the hygiene problem' for most of that time, if not all of it. These things don't just come on suddenly & are usually caused by a colostomy bag that is either past its sell by date or not emptied regularly.

EFCC had probably, with some certainty, known about this probelm for some time, probably a few years.

So what do they do?

They take the woman to the bank & then refuse to take her home, probably because all their drivers had refused to do the return.

WTF is the sense in that?

At least leave the vulnerable woman in the safety of her own home, by either refusing to take her to the bank on that particular day & telling her that she can no longer use EFCC's services, or once you have taken her to the bank, do the return journey back to her home & then tell her the bad / good news.

I don't dispute that there are passengers with 'hygiene problems'; we've all come across them.

But to leave her stranded away from the comfort & security of her own home is not clever at all.
Author:  Jasbar [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:27 pm ]
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What is Edinburgh Festival City Cars?

Who is Kevin Wood?
Author:  Jasbar [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:31 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:


Fornicate Off feckwit country bumpkin scumbag cretin.

Demented motherfecking incompetent imbecile and pathetic pretendy wee businessman that you are.

PS I hope your next dump is full of broken bottles.

:roll:
Author:  Naz_khan [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:39 pm ]
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Jasbar wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:


Fornicate Off feckwit country bumpkin scumbag cretin.

Demented motherfecking incompetent imbecile and pathetic pretendy wee businessman that you are.

PS I hope your next dump is full of broken bottles.

:roll:


such charm :P
Author:  Jasbar [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:13 pm ]
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Naz_khan wrote:
Jasbar wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:


Fornicate Off feckwit country bumpkin scumbag cretin.

Demented motherfecking incompetent imbecile and pathetic pretendy wee businessman that you are.

PS I hope your next dump is full of broken bottles.

:roll:


such charm :P


Precisely what an unprovoked attack deserves.

Now, did you have the wit to recognise this?

:twisted:

And if such comment was made about yours?
Author:  Chris the Fish [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:33 pm ]
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Jasbar wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:


Fornicate Off feckwit country bumpkin scumbag cretin.

Demented motherfecking incompetent imbecile and pathetic pretendy wee businessman that you are.

PS I hope your next dump is full of broken bottles.

:roll:

Skippy, I have to say that a joke is a joke but you were a bit out of order with this one, though probably because you didn't think it through rather than direct malice.

I can't say I would feel any different than Jasbar - and to be honest an apology to Jasbar and even more to his wife is called for.
Author:  captain cab [ Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:35 pm ]
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We're presuming there is a Mrs Jaspar.....if there..... is she obviously deserves our sympathy.

CC
Author:  grandad [ Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:06 am ]
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Chris the Fish wrote:
Jasbar wrote:
skippy41 wrote:
Was it Mrs Jasbar?? :lol:


Fornicate Off feckwit country bumpkin scumbag cretin.

Demented motherfecking incompetent imbecile and pathetic pretendy wee businessman that you are.

PS I hope your next dump is full of broken bottles.

:roll:

Skippy, I have to say that a joke is a joke but you were a bit out of order with this one, though probably because you didn't think it through rather than direct malice.

I can't say I would feel any different than Jasbar - and to be honest an apology to Jasbar and even more to his wife is called for.


I agree. Insult Jasbar all you like but leave his wife out of it. She has enough to contend with already.
Author:  MR T [ Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:22 am ]
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The way they deal with smelly passengers here.... is to send a smelly driver to pick them up.. and Skippy only asked a question.. :wink:
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