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Meido Taxi Service Ceased

Submitted by Alafista on Monday, 17 December 2007One Comment

Previously I mentioned about the Meido Taxi Service on DannyChoo for disabled people. This service has now been halted after 3 months in operations.

The reason behind was that there was a ton of healthy people pretending to be injured to get a ride. As a result, the company found themselves breaking the law as they were only licensed to transport disable people.

Since there was no way to 100% identify those who were really disable or just another crazy otaku, they decided to fold the business instead.

Source: Yomiuri JP

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