Worldwide


Considering the sheer number and diversity of our World Wide reports this past twelve months, it fair makes one glad – or at least relieved! – that one is as- sociated with the UK tax industry. Of course we have our fair share of daily attacks, runners, racist and other substance-fuelled verbals, and the matter of 65 drivers murdered in the past 21 years... but what about this lot around the world in only one year?


What with the New York hoodie caught on camera shooting a cab- bie, featured in our March edition; the American tourist hacked to death by a Thai driver over a $2 fare (August); the driver murdered in Zambia (May); the driver who was dragged by South Africa po- lice behind a van (April); and the unfortunate tourist from Leices- ter, Sian Green, whose leg was severed due to the collision of a New York taxi (and whose story is ongoing in this edition of PHTM with lawsuits and allsorts)... some dreadful events took place in various quarters, and that’s putting it mildly.


All we can try to do - and there’s plenty to go at – is to balance the dreadful and dramatic with the odd lighter-hearted item to raise a smile. For instance, the lady driver in South Africa (January’s edi- tion) who crammed 19 kids in her minibus... “I didn’t need a shoe horn - honest...”; or the Hong Kong driver (June) who was sued for a 6-cents overcharge, and the massive (over 15 times the usual fare, is all) overcharge of a foreign student by a driver in Chicago as reported in October. December had a couple of good’uns as well: the Bavarian driver who found and returned 250,000 Euros to their grateful owner and refused a reward (!); and also a par- ticular fave – the man who attacked a California cab with a didgeri- doo (whatever did that lovely instrument do to deserve that!).


So - keeping on the lighthearted side of things, our runner-up for sheer visual impact has to be the beard contest winner Chris Kriskovic from Madison, Wisconsin, who was captured in our Oc- tober issue with the most amazing facial creation this side of New Orleans (where the contest was held). But we voted this year’s winner to be Norwegian Prime Minister


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