WHISTLING FOR TAXIS
A CRIME IN LONDON.
One man was solemnly fined 10s for whistling for a taxicab in London, while another was assessed 30s at Epsom for “driving too slow,” thus establishing two rather confusing precedents. Thousands of men who have been in the habit of giving way to joyful whistling as they go along are wondering if the harmless practice would be the next thing attacked by London’s blue laws, while many motorists who pride themselves upon careful driving said: “What’s the use?”
The whistling offender used a little whistle to hail .a passing cab at night, a violation of “Dora,” as the wartime Defence of the Realm Act, is called, and the Epsom automobilist was charged with refusing to go faster, thereby blocking motor-cars wdshing to pass his auto. The whistling law is a wartime regulation made permanent.
Judge Sir Chartres Biren, in passing sentence, exclaimed: “I hope it will be recognised by all. Londoners that whistling for cabs is not allowed. I don’t suppose there is a more intolerable nuisance than this, making a. hideous noise just when decent people are going to bed.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1925, Page 6
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