Be Careful Who You're Seen Being Familiar With....

[mushroom25]

even if it's your own family.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3408281/Taxi-driver-banned-taking-children-school-reported-kissing-hugging-DAUGHTERS.html

A bit kafka-esque, this. if his driver friend hadn't broken a confidence by telling him why he was banned, he'd probably be under arrest now.

[baza]

Was he mistaken for a teacher ?

[ToraToraTora]

it's a sad world AOG, adult men cannot go anywhere near children these days.

[B00]

Nothing sad about it at all!

The the casual onlooker he was taxi driver seen kissing his passengers who were small children. Once it was made known it was his own children he was cuddling, he was reinstated- no harm done.

I'd rather there was more vigilance like this, i'd rather someone was wrong in their assumptions then to ignore what could be a crime.

[B00]

to the*

[Peter Pedant]

// Was he mistaken for a teacher ?//

wha' with his essex chav accent - cloth cap and oil on his hands ?

i think that is most likely


// Was he mistaken for a teacher ?//

esp when asked to explain and he said: 'I believe in hands-on teaching ....'

[Peter Pedant]

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at my work place in the NHS a doctor was reported to the GMC for giving antibiotics under scrip to his daughter - treating your own fambly is a no no

and it turned out to be one of nurses at the local GP practice ooooooo!


I wonder if the concerned citizen here was also 'a friend'

[Mamyalynne]

Crikey Peter, even in Bolton our Taxi drivers don't wear cloth caps or have oily hands.

It was right that the report was acted upon, it would have been good if he had been interviewed more promptly rather than an agonising wait and finding out by other means what the cause was.

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - there are times to joke about issues in the news, and there are times when sledge-hammer 'humour' is inappropriate.

Guess which this is?

[ummmm]

I agree with B00. He was in a taxi. People can't be expected to assume they are his own children.

[andy-hughes]

I can see how this has happened, and although the principle of investigation was sound, the manner of completion and the delay involved was not.

I think it's lovely that girls of that age would kiss their dad in front of their school friends - by the time mine were that age, I was being an embarrassment simply by occupying the same hemisphere!!

[New Judge]

It is indeed a sad world.

But more disturbing than that is the way in which local councils and other similar authorities operate. It is a basic tenet in English law that an accused person is entitled to know, in a timely manner, the nature and details of allegations made against him. Yet here we have a man who is not only summarily punished (by being suspended from his job) but, when he enquires why, is given no reason.

I appreciate that such bodies have responsibilities towards child safety. However, when this driver was suspended he should have been told immediately the reason why. There is no justification for keeping such details secret (other than the general air of secrecy which seems to prevail in all manner of State institutions).

Imagine this: a police officer knocks at your door:

Officer: “You are banned from driving from this moment. Give me your driving licence”
Driver: “Why? What have I done?”
Officer: “I’m not at liberty to tell you”
Driver “I think that’s outrageous”
Officer: “Tough. Them’s the rules”

A week later another knock at the door:

Officer: “I’m here to return your driving licence and to tell you that you can drive again”
Driver: “Why? What’s changed?”
Officer: “Well, somebody told us last week that you drove your car from the pub car park and we assumed you’d been drink-driving. We realise now that you had not”
Driver: “But what happens about my loss of earnings and my good name”
Officer: “Not my problem”

Seem fair enough? Well that's exactly what happened here.

[Peter Pedant]

to andy hughes - hi andie !
de gustibus baby
I am shocked and surprised you dont like my sense of humour .....

[Baldric]

\\\he was taxi driver seen kissing his passengers \\\
Er, no he wasn't
///I was hugging and kissing, it was my own daughters, who are aged nine and eleven and are taken to the school each day by their mother from their home in Malton.
'We have unfortunately separated and I live in Kirkbymoorside, but they always look out for me and run up for a hug and a kiss when they see me arrive.///

[ummmm]

Really Andy?

Even as a teenager he'd hold my hand crossing the road :-) I never minded.

[Peter Pedant]

Interesting NJ

if it were civil and it were his employer then he could demand the info under the data protection act
( it is his data if it has his name on it )

there is no defence of keeping information away from soneone becuase they wanna fire him

I have used this in the work place but as usual we dont know the back story

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant -

//to andy hughes - hi andie !
de gustibus baby
I am shocked and surprised you dont like my sense of humour ..... //

Not sure why you misspell my name on the same line as you spell it correctly, and I have no idea what 'de gustibus baby' means.

I am sure you will get over your 'shock and surprise' - given a little time and thought.

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //Really Andy?

Even as a teenager he'd hold my hand crossing the road :-) I never minded. //

My eldest was achingly self-conscious about her image and her friends' opinions, the middle one less so, and the youngest hardly at all - so it does depend on the girl in question.

I know that all my girls love me very much - it was just their 'rep' that mattered at that age, so I had no problem with it at all,

[Milvus]

It's strange that the council didn't take this any further after suspension. No Child Agencies or Police involved. If this hadn't been a mistake and was real, were the council going to do anything further or just sweep it under the carpet? With the potential of children at risk, 6 days seems a big gap without any further action

[andy-hughes]

Milvus - //It's strange that the council didn't take this any further after suspension. No Child Agencies or Police involved. If this hadn't been a mistake and was real, were the council going to do anything further or just sweep it under the carpet? With the potential of children at risk, 6 days seems a big gap without any further action //

That's entirely hypothetical - how can we know what action the council would have taken? The issue was cleared up, with a delay, but it was all sorted and no action was needed.

[ummmm]

My youngest is like that, Andy. I'd have to bribe him to show affection.

My friends all loved my dad so I had no rep to protect. So glad about that now, with hindsight...