Taxi Driver Online

Desperation has obviously overcome you CC.

Your problem is that you just get over the hurdle of your own making that you think rape is reasonable.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

I think you're deranged Mr Taylor, yet again you resort to personal attack due to your obvious jealousy, and lack of ability to take forward any possible argument.

You asked for proof, I supplied 16 stories with the ease of a few google searches.

I think you'll also find drugs bust in the JCB story found that the people involved operated under the 'front' of a taxi business. You are either blind or stupid if you didn't see that.

There seems to be a great number of mavericks working on their own out there, I can't believe your ignorant enough to believe that though.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Aye, the taxi firm was so intrinsic to the story it got a mega headline - NOT!!!

You need a reality check CC. You have the same capacity as nutter Smith to see just what you want to see. You don't have the wit to asess information and consider it.

Any drug dealer can hail a cab to deliver his goods. Different cabs, different firms, different drivers. Untraceable.

You don't need your own "taxi" firm.

The JCB was being used to break into the warehouse, not the taxi firm.

Hardly commonly replicated trough the country, is it. An isolated case.

Sh*t happens. I'd wager there is no instance of this on my patch, so I'm not concerned.

But you seem to want this to be seen as the norm rather than the rare exception. Why so?
Now read my previous post again an tell me where I got it wrong.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

There are obvious benefits to the system, the main one being it leaves the authority in control of taxi numbers, which in a City such as Edinburgh is obviously important.

It is also obvious from the stuff I have from New York that the authorities there are always mindful about flooding the market with too many medallions.

The New York model is far from perfect, but it could be used as a base to tinker with.

It's definitely worth pursuing.

Regards

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

On crime.

Crime exists because the authorities want it to.

Irrational fear of crime is a sleight of hand that keeps the herd distracted, bewildered.

Criminals could be filtered out of society, jails filled up, keys thrown away.

Ask yourself why they're not.

Couldn't be because the sercurity industry, cops, lawyers courts all exist because crime exists. Why would politicians possibly want to end crime forever? Particularly when we'd then look at the reality of our comparative poverty and ask why we're killing people in illegal wars? Or the unequal societal system founded on an inherited privileged mnonarchy and the grace and favour it brings to the comtrol group.

If drugs were really such a problem that government wants to solve, why haven't the poppy fields in Afghanistan been agent=oranged, estrying their capacity to produce the drugs killing our young people?

That's the real measure of the situation.

There is a balance. What CC is demobstrating is the ebb and flow of that balance, not the solution.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Detectives said the gang used a taxi business, based in a shabby corrugated iron and breezeblock building, as their headquarters and a “clearing house” for up to £4 million a week generated by drug sellers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1578480/Police-smash-cocaine-empire-in-sweeping-raids.html

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Haverhill/Drug-couriers-sentence-cut.htm

A TAXI driver put behind bars for supplying cocaine to drug users across Cambridgeshire has had his jail sentence slashed.

Paul Massie, 49, was jailed for five years at Ipswich Crown Court last August after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

If he's not blind, his "personal shopper" at Matalan, certainly IS!

I think what you're demonstrating (or is it demobstrating?) is obvious

That's in between the usual diatribe we're all bored with.

Best Wishes

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

So you think it's ok to ignore the bits you don't want to know about and only go with the parts that suit your argument at the time?



I'm not entirely sure you understood what I meant, but, no matter. Using your answer as a guide nobody in their right mind would rationally or fiscally make a decision that de-restriction was a sound one.

This of course was a hyperthetical discussion regarding what standards you thought would be best for drivers if de-restriction was to come to Edinburgh. It's a shame even in this discussion you can't help but insult can you

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

What's so complicated with a qualified driver having unfettered access to the tools of his trade?

There is no reason I can see to deny anyone the choice to own or drive. The only barrier to driving a taxi should be the qualification to earn the licence. Once you have achieved your licence renting or owning is then a fundamental right.

What, you can rent a taxi, but you just can't own a taxi, unless you buy what is, in fact, council property through the back-door of a limited company?

There is nothing complex about a driver earning a living driving a taxi, especially his own taxi.

What don't you get?

You lot are fecking mad

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Gary, its early, there's no need to shout

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I've never read so much inane drivel in my life, a medallion market in Edinburgh, compatible with EU legislation. You're having a laugh.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

You read it?

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin