Unlucky Cabs Banned From Taxiing Students
Shanghai’s biggest taxi company has banned cabs with supposedly unlucky number plates from picking up students about to take exams. All cabs whose number plates end with the number four will not be used, announced Shanghai Dazhong Taxi Co Ltd. This is because the number shares the same pronunciation as failure in the
"Lots of parents refuse to take cabs with number plates which they consider unlucky, and we've seen many of them get angry at us because we have used them to carry their children in past years," Dazhong's taxi boss Zhao Leping was quoted as saying by Shanghai Youth Daily.
Shanghai NGS Taxi, another big cab company in the city, says 20 per cent of its bookings for the examination request the firm not to send 'unlucky' vehicles.
Some students said they would not take a taxi during the examination.
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