Taxi Driver Puts Thieves Out to Pasture
From Times Wire Reports
A Chilean taxi driver has come up with a new way to fight assaults: make your vehicle so conspicuous that nobody would dare try to rob you.
After being robbed several times, Juan Geraldo upholstered his car’s interior with black and white cowhides. He then decorated it with stuffed toy cows and added a horn that moos.
At night, the taxi’s interior is set off from floor to ceiling by a flood of neon light.
“They haven’t robbed me since,” said Geraldo, 46.
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