Taxi Driver Online

Perhaps we should heed the warning never to get out of the car to deal with a non-paying passenger.

We should all have vehicles with bulkheads, reinforced glass protection and automatic locking devices.

We should have CCTV fitted as standard on our vehicles, monitoring both inside and outside the car.

We should be exploring technology to estimate total fare to facilitate pre-payment.

We should have a hotline warning device prompting police, or other appointed agency, response.

Meanwhile, we should give the fullest consideration to whom we pick up, particularly off the street.

We seem to have a very cavalier approach to heinous murder in our justice system. We seem to want to treat perptrators as some disadvantaged victim. Well, we may all have experienced disadvantage, even poverty, at some time in our lives, but that doesn't mean that we are all prepared to murder some innocent for little or no reason.

While I draw a line at state murder, we should incarcerate these people for the rest of their natural, ensuring that the are put to work.

Now, where are the politicans who would represent OUR views.

very sad that your trying to make a buck or 2 and this happens

lots of scum out there

Even the buses have wised up to displaying notices telling the public that we all have a right to work safely and without customer conflict.

The key is sentencing. The message has to go out from the courts.

One thing that would not go amiss, is for a warning light to be fitted to the roof of every car in the U.K - i.e RED that would flash on and off in the event of an attack. The drivers should also be made aware that the light is to be used for that purpose only - not because you have broken down - strictly an attack light recognisable anywhere in the U.K.

As things are at the moment, some might put their hazards on or flash their main beem, but all in all that means nothing - something more definitive would help.

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

Yes, an external audible and visual warning, recognised as a request for aid, is a brilliant idea cabby john. Let's add it to the list.

Any more?

BTW Is the Dragon's den looming?

Pretty certain the TW range has such a thing.

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IDFIMH

The attacker has forgotten what happened.

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/mostpopula ... member.php

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IDFIMH

The complete and utter scumbag has been found guilty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7423675.stm

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IDFIMH

And being drunk is an excuse not a reason. he wasn't too drunk to be able to drive the car.

And when he drove over his victim, he had to know exactly what he was doing, and what the ramifications of his actions were.

This deserves a minimum 30 year tariff but he would still be younger than the life he stole.

Can we expect the court to do the right thing here?