UNSUNG HEROES
LONDON CABBIE DRAGS ECO PROTESTERS OUT OF ROAD SHOUTING ‘PEOPLE MUST GO TO HOSPITAL’
A furious cab driver clashed with eco-idiots for blocking “people getting to hospital” during a protest in central London. The Sun reports that the cabbie dragged the Just Stop Oil protesters out of the road in Park Lane as they
launched their
second protest in the capital over the weekend of 16-17 October. Meanwhile activists defaced an Aston Martin showroom with spray paint while others superglued
themselves to the road - blocking multiple emergency service vehicles and also potentially
risking lives. The angry cabbie shouted: “Some people have to get to hospital!” as he tried to force his way through the chaos. Another yelled: “People have got f****** work to go to. Someone else screamed: “People are trying to go to hospital!” This comes after a van driver clashed with eco-idiot protesters for allegedly stopping him from taking his ill wife to hospital.
BELFAST CABBIE PAID HIS PASSENGERS’ FARES FOR A DAY TO HELP WITH THEIR ENERGY BILLS
A West Belfast taxi driver has been praised for a kind-hearted gesture to his passengers that has left his family “hugely proud”. Gerard Maxwell, from Clonard, works as a taxi driver for Value Cabs and he decided to ease the pressure on those feeling the squeeze amid the ongoing cost of living crisis. Instead of taking money for fares from his passengers, Gerard, 52, covered them for the day and told them to use the money towards their electric and gas bills instead. BelfastLive reports that it’s a gesture that has impressed his entire family. Gerard’s wife Máire said: “Before Gerard was a taxi driver he worked with the elderly for about 15 years. He has always had a caring nature and work was never just work to Gerard. He has always found ways to make everyone’s lives better. “We know that everyone is struggling at the minute so he said
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to me the other day that he’d like to do something a bit different and step in to help someone. “So every person that day who got into his car was told the same thing: ‘Put the money into your gas and electric instead’. “It was quite a busy day for him too and that pleased him even more because he was able to help more people than on a normal day. “It doesn’t matter to him what side of the community you’re from because he was all over Belfast that day so everyone benefitted. In Gerard’s words ‘we’re all in this together so why not give someone
a helping hand’. “He’s just so humble and he never looks for anything in return. He has already said that he’d like to do it a few more days in the run-up to Christmas so he can take the pressure off a few more people.” She added: “The customers were all overwhelmed and said no-one had ever done anything like this for them before. They were so taken aback because he never told them about it until the end of the journey. “They were saying ‘no you’re a taxi man and have overheads like everybody else’ but he just said to them ‘I’ll be fine. The first passenger he picked up was someone just coming out of hospital so there he was stepping in to help them straight away. “Just like the passengers, as a family we were so touched by his generosity and it gives hope that there’s still some good people in the world.”
NOVEMBER 2022 PHTM
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