SHOT AT, BEATEN UP, ROBBED

Gruelling week

for cabbies

By CHRIS LLOYD

CAB DRIVERS at North Shore -Taxi are reported

to be “a little jumpy” as a result of two of them
getting robbed in the past week.

One of the robbed drivers
was beaten up and locked in
the trunk of his cab and the
other had shots fired at him
as he was trying to run away
from his robber.

The robberies occurred
within two days of one
another, each after midnight
and both as a result of

had attempted to turn it
around when he reached a
gate on watershed road, at
which point the car had
become stuck and the man
had left on foot. RCMP with
tracker dogs were combing
the area Friday.

Tuesday another driver
ran into problems when he

A3 - Sunday, February 27, 1983 - North Shore News

HELPING HAND towards the water and a new start on life are given to two murres

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picking up passengers at the

Lynnwood Hotel. However,
police do not believe the
robberies are connected.

Friday at 2:45 a.m. 25-
year-old driver Mark Taylor
picked up a passenger who
ordered him to drive up
Lillooet Road.

Taylor became ap-
prehensive when they passed
the last homes on the road
and the. passenger, said to be
very drunk, told him to keep
going.

As they got up on the
watershed road, Taylor
became so concerned he
stopped the cab, at which
point he was robbed by the

assenpe who prodiiced a
handgun.

Taylor ran off into the
bush, with the gunman firing
three warning shots near his
feet as he did. The cabbie
kept running and fell down a
chff.

He eventually made it to a
phone half an hour later and
reported the robbery.

Pohce found the robber
had driven off in the cab and

picked up two men leaving
the Lynnwood after mid-
night.

The driver is said to have
realized something was
wrong and attempted to
radio back to base but the
men grabbed the mike from
him and beat him up and
robbed him.

The taxi control had been
able to hear over the radio
that something was wrong
and other North Shore Taxi
drivers began driving around
looking for the cab.

It was eventually found by
one of the drivers, at Lynn
Valley School, who
discovered the badly beaten

‘driver of the vehicle locked

in the trunk. The victim
required eight stitches to his
head.

North Shore Taxi
President Garry Corrigan
tells the News his company
has 100 drivers working at
night and that they are
“getting a little jumpy.”

He is anxious to find ways
of protecting his drivers
from such incidents.

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