Sad B*****d of


Now regular PHTM readers will know immedi- ately that this is the section which has led the field ever since we started running our Review of the Year. It needs no explanation; this is the year’s collection of individuals who’ve excelled themselves in being complete idiots in their own inimitable way.


Shame of it is, this past twelve months has collected such indi- viduals not so much from the passenger list but from behind the steering wheel! Oops... Anyway, let’s see what’s going. We’ll start with a more than exemplary passenger first: the gentleman in Florida who robbed a taxi driver, but then proceeded to leave his wallet in the taxi. D’oh! His article featured in our January edition; his criminal mind was sharp as a tack, even having planned to sit in the front seat on the excuse that riding in the back made him feel ill. But then he dropped his wallet on the floorboard of the taxi. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.


Unfortunately the remainder of our B*****ds are in the trade; a


motley crew they are as well. Let’s start with the West Brom driver who drove at a man he believed had attacked a fellow licence holder. Trouble is, he drove his car at the wrong man; the real cul- prit had already been sentenced for his part in the incident. That was reported in our February issue; the award nominees car- ried on amassing during the year, like the Sheffield driver in our May edition who was jailed for two years for sending a ‘hoax’ threat that he was going to bomb the Bristol-based march of the English Defence League. Apparently the guy sent the threatening email “just for a laugh”, and had no intention to bomb anybody... Ha ha, some laugh.


Then there was the Liverpool driver in our July issue who aban- doned a man who had fallen in the road, and the Feltham driver we talked about in September who suffered an oversized dose of road rage, attacking a traffic warden’s vehicle after having been given a ticket. Expensive ticket, that... he got a ten-month jail sen- tence. Tell you what: Manchester takes the biscuit for collecting you- couldn’t-make-it-up stories: in October we had the driver who was done for carrying too many passengers in his MPV, and told the authorities that the extra passenger was a blow-up doll. Then in December we had the guy who had operated a hackney carriage without a licence or insurance. Quite common, that... except that this driver (a) had been refused renewal in 2012; and (2) was car-


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