The Shuffler

Kenny 'The Shuffler' Taylor has been a title contender for most deranged taxi driver in existence. He has been known to regularly entertain / scare customers, often by means of a pink, squawking plush toy bird to accompany his exteraneous rants, improv comedy skits and freestyle rap verses. Or perhaps you'd be lucky enough to see him don one of those terribly shite comic relief red noses, and turn round to face you with the kind of crazed, sex-pest grin that only Dave Benson-Philips could muster after a few eccies.

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Now this is all well and good, and definitely makes for an entertaining journey at some ungodly hour in the morning - but bear in mind that you'd likely be simultaneously laughing and secretly clutching the seats for dear life (hoping he couldn't quite smell the  fear) - swerving about the road as he dodged oncoming traffic and screaming 'mental, mental, chicken oriental - psycho, psycho, chicken's in the micro!'.

His loveable mullet first graced the internet by means of a few short lived viral videos (one of which has thankfully resurfaced) depicting him hurtling down the street, shouting at the kind of volume reserved mainly for partially deaf grindcore bands and treating his fares to a one man variety act.

What can be assertained about him is mostly through football forums and facebook posts, and though anecdotal evidence about his questionable sanity is pretty much all we have to go on - it does seem fitting that he remains, for the most part, enshrined in myth, with talk of him constrained to the realms of taxi banter and boogeyman tales to scare rich kids into taking the bus.

Not long 'til he has his own fringe show.

Further reading:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/city-taxi-driver-dons-comedy-nose-and-gets-out-puppets-to-entertain-and-sometimes-scare-passengers-1-2695468

http://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index.php/topic/194585-crazy-taxi-driver-in-edinburgh/

http://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?252770-Kenny-the-shuffler-taylor-taxi-driver-goes-viral