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Comfort Break Leads to Taxi Ban

Comfort Break

August 2010

An airport taxi driver received a 28 day ban from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport after he took too long to relieve himself.

Mark Yates, 45, has been driving his black cab for 23 years.  He pays airport owners Peel Holdings more than £4,000 a year to work from outside the passenger terminal.

However, the married father-of-three was left feeling gutted following his ban, handed out under the airport’s agreed 'Code of Conduct', which stipulates that no vehicle be left unattended for over 20 minutes on the airport taxi rank.

Shocker

Incredulous Mark told The Cabbie newspaper: "I couldn't believe it when I found out.  It's totally ludicrous to hit me with this completely unfair ban.  I was only following the rules which Peel have given to us.”

Mark continued: “In the past one or two of the lads used to go to the toilet in the bushes and of course the airport banned that, which I totally understand.  But from the back of the taxi rank it's a really long walk, the entire length of the terminal building, just to use the toilet.” 

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