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Cabbies Allowed To Charge Drunken Passengers For Cleanup

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published February 4, 2014 at 7:52 AM EST

Taxi drivers in Columbus want intoxicated riders to pay for cleaning up the vehicles. The city's Vehicle For Hire Board has approved allowing cabbies to charge 50-dollars to drunken passengers who vomit or relieve themselves in the backseat. If a passenger refuses to pay, the driver can call police. Cab company owners say drivers lose time and money cleaning up their vehicles, and they deserve to be compensated.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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