Friday
Nov092012
Cabbie breathalysed for talking too much
Friday, November 9, 2012 at 9:03 I had the strangest conversation with a cabbie in Edinburgh yesterday.
After we discussed the economy ("How long is this recession going to last?" he asked as soon as I climbed in to the back of his vehicle) the conversation became slightly more surreal.
It was clear he enjoyed talking. He also had a sense of humour inspired, I would guess, by Spike Milligan.
But it was still a surprise when he told me his behaviour had provoked a passenger to report him to the police.
"They thought I was stoned," he said.
So, as a direct result of "talking too much" (his words), the police stopped and breathalysed him.
As Richard Littlejohn would say, you couldn't make it up.
Reader Comments (3)
Looks like the Stasi's tenticles are spreading successfully when a private citizen takes it upon herself to rat on a fellow citizen just because he spoke too much.
Can you imagine what would happen if his cab had smelt of smoke.
He'd probably being doing time by now.
The amazing thing is that the modern day Stasi doesnt have a physical presence.
They've been replaced by the Thought police.
Formerly known as Political Correctness.
Maybe the police act differently in Scotland to how they act down here in the south, but when I once saw a bunch of young hooligans opposite where I live, throwing stones at a woman in an electric wheelchair, I immediately phoned the police.
The police arrived within minutes, but the woman by then had escaped the little b*****rds but as the police had the description I have given them, they went immediately up to them and started to question them.
Ha ha I thought, bloody good job, this will teach them but I couldn't believe my eyes at what happened next, for our jolly boys in blue struck up what looked like a close friendship with the boys in hoods, and within a few minutes they were all laughing and joking together.
Aren't our police wonderful - not!
Those po-faced Edinburgh passengers! Had it been a Glasgow cab the passenger would've offered the driver a swig from his bottle :>