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Each day I receive a news digest of taxi driver stories from English language newspapers around the world. The digest is dominated by reports of driver attacks and murders. Whilst the US generally leads the amount of driver attacks England, minus London, is vying for the disgraceful title as the worlds most dangerous country for cabbies.
The digest averages eight to a dozen notable stories each day, of which 90% pertain to violence against cabbies. It gets so that one blithely scans the horror headlines without so much as reading the particulars, so desensitizing is the amount of attacks reported.
However this week a case has caught my attention due to the sheer callousness shown towards a Somali driver in Edmonton, Canada. He was a 41 year old father of seven who had the fatal misfortune of picking up a drink and drug bingeing party of...animals,
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