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Published: Tue, 13 Jan 2009
Description: Cab company offering free rides home for the intoxicated
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" Okay its New Year's Eve you're crazy drunk obviously need a ride home for. In a lot of places there's a service that get in there for free and now there are places where the cab company wants to offer that service year round. There is concern about how much it would cost of the camp companies saying if even one life to save its money well spent."
" tradition in cities across the country revelers who drink too much can get free cab rides home we're monitoring these cards. When he force. Ellis Houston owns yellow cab of Birmingham and offered free rides last month it really makes me grateful that I -- Did someone home safe and sound but this year yellow cab is extending the program hoping to keep drunk drivers off the streets 24 hours a day seven days a week for all of 2009. Y and then -- have no fear unless of course you've driven to the bar. They appear in Birmingham Alabama to assess the bartender for this envelope which is inside and let someone else -- right before you. A similar safe ride program was a big hit in Little Rock last year in fact it worked so well yellow cab -- sure we'll find success in Birmingham to you that we're going to continue to in this program at least for the next twelve months have no matter what the costs. The envelopes are given to your cab driver when you get home you get the envelope and where he's back. Before they can even tell me what public that this will do. Restaurants and bars who had signed up -- a free ride program is so popular there overwhelmed at times would request for cats I think -- more demand for. In tough economic times many wonder if yellow -- can afford to offer free rides in Little Rock. And now in Birmingham all year we feel that strongly about it in the NF. Some reason we think with the bailed them -- look for sponsors he considers the loss of revenue money well spent if it saves even one life. In Birmingham Alabama Marianne Silber Fox News."
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