32 PRIVATEHIRE AND TAXI MONTHLY
IN THE NEWS
A man caused chaos when
he
£20,000 SCRAMBLE IN TAIWAN threw
£20,000 from a taxi in a crowded city cen- tre. According to the Daily Record, police in Taichung,
Taiwan ,
arrested the 55-year- old man for lobbing
The legendary sixties pop group the Zom- bies flew into Glasgow last month to appear at the ABC where they performed their classic 1968 album Odessey and Oracle. However, keyboard star Rod Argent tells the Glas- gow Herald that his first trip to the city will be hard to beat. “On our UK tour in 1965 we were co-starring with The Isley Brothers and we had a fairly autocrat- ic tour manager, who
the notes from vehi- cles and causing disorder in the streets. The man tossed the bills from a taxi in the city and threw more money from a car on an earlier trip from the capital Taipei. He also burned about
stated grandly that any- one late for the tour bus would simply be left
behind.Needless to say, The Isleys drove up to see the bus disappear- ing into the distance. So they grabbed a London taxi, and yelled: “Follow that bus!” But in fact they didn’t actually catch up with the bus until its final destination - Glasgow - whereupon they got out and told the taxi dri ver that the tour manager would settle
£8000 and had two more sacks of cash, apparently
the pro-
ceeds of a property sale. The man has been char ged with publ ic endange rment and destruction of curren- cy.
A TAXI OF THE ZOMBIES
the bill. “The tour manager of course turned white at the sight of the bill and refused to pay. And the taxi driver
in turn
refused to leave until he got paid. And so he stayed, and came along to the Glasgow gig. But it turned out that he had such a great night that he stayed until the end of the tour two weeks later.” And no, Rod points out, the driver never did get paid.
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It was a tale of black cabs rather than black ties at the RSNO’s recital at the Royal Con- cert Hall last month. Nearly100GlasgowTOA taxi drivers attended the orchestra’s Naked Clas- sicsshowafter a call was put out over their radios for free tickets and 96 responded.
As part of a drive to get more people interested in classical music, the orchestra’s education department contacted TOA to ask if its mem- bers would like to come to see a show. Rachel Bull of the RSNO told
the Glasgow
Evening Times: “The idea came from Naked
Classics presenter Paul Rissman.Hewas in a taxi and the driver was listen- ing toClassicFMso Paul suggested we offer taxi drivers free tickets. We were overwhelmed by the response.” It was almost a full house for the concert, more shows are sched- uled later this year.
LOYALTY SCHEME REWARDS HALIFAX CUSTOMERS
Regular taxi customers are being rewarded with a unique loyalty scheme. Whitehill Private Hire is offering a £5 refund after 16 trips have been
made. Loyalty cards will be issued to cus- tomers to get their journeys stamped. Chris Stocks, who owns the firm with his wife Mandy, rold the
Halifax Evening Couri- er: “It’s something I read about down south. We have so many regu- lar customers it’s a way of giving them some- thing back”.
UNLUCKY GAME SHOW CABBIE
A wrong turn by a Hounslow cab driver made him only the sec- ond Deal Or No Deal contestant
to walk
away with nothing. Daimon Nelson lost £5,000 after gambling all
on the hit
gameshow. But the 37-year-old, whose Easter special episode appeared on Channel 4 on Good Fri- day, was surprisingly
upbeat about the whole affair. “If I’d got a life-chang- ing offer of £30,000 or more I would have taken it, but my highest offer was £12,500.” he told the Hounslow Bor- ough Chronicle. “I ended up with £5,000 and the banker offered me the chance to dou- ble that if I picked the good egg, but unfortu- nately I chose the
wrong one twice. “Of course I’m disap- pointed
because
£5,000 is a lot of money, but I played the game and enjoyed myself. My friends and family were probably more upset than I was.” Daimon, whose pink cab is hard to miss, added that presenter Noel Edmonds had been “really under- standing”.
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