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Call Sign November 2011
DON'T SCRATCH YOUR EAR!
ver a business card with the
As we approach the fes-
offer that if he needed him as a
tive season and time of
witness to just call, before
goodwill to all, this
excusing himself from the scene
might be an appropriate
and walking off in the direction
moment to relate a story
of Portman Square.
that came into the Call
Meanwhile the two police-
Sign office recently
men retreated back to their van
for a head-to-head discussion
regarding the alleged
before returning to the taxi dri-
use of a mobile phone
ver to "give you a warning
while driving. It could
about using a mobile phone
serve as a timely
while driving!" Following the
reminder...
lecture, the duo then back-
The Dial-a-Cab subscriber, Don't use a mobile phone while drving and certainly
tracked towards their vehicle to
whose name and call sign we don't scratch your ear!
- as our driver put it "find
another victim?"
have but who for obvious rea-
had seen him using his mobile phone
"If I had not had that passenger, who
sons asked us to withhold them, was while driving. They said they had been
driving down Seymour Place with a pas- travelling north on Seymour Place and turned out to be a real gent of a witness,
senger on board who was chatting ami- had made a `U' turn to confront the cab I'm sure I would have been framed," our
subscriber suggested.
cably with the driver. He was running driver who was heading south.
So, as we get closer to the festive sea-
late for a meeting with a business col-
"We're 80% sure you were using the
phone - or were you just scratching your son, when road safety and law enforce-
league at Portman Square.
Suddenly, from behind the taxi a ear," was the rather sarccy comment that ment campaigns reach a peak, it might
police van blew its' two-tone horn and greeted the DaC man's protestations? be wise not to even raise a hand
the blue lights went on. Our driver Subsequent checks on the handset at the towards an auditory organ to relieve an
instinctively pulled over to allow the roadside proved that no calls had been irritation, let alone pick up a mobile
police vehicle to pass thinking it was on made recently. At this point, the passen- phone to make a call - unless of course
a `shout' when, to the driver's surprise, ger got out of the cab and explained to you are safely parked off the Queen's
the police van stopped behind the taxi the Plod that the driver had not been on highway!
and both policemen got out and the phone and that in fact they were just
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approached the taxi driver claiming they having a chat. He then handed the dri-
