Spanish Oddities
Málaga taxi driver fined for wearing pirate trousers
By h.b.
Jul 18, 2008 - 7:45 AM

Local police in Málaga have fined a taxi driver in the city for driving in Rafa Nadal style pirate trousers. It comes as article 41B of the local by laws regulating taxis states:
‘All the drivers of taxis with a municipal licence must carry out their service ‘properly clean and correctly dressed’.

Diario Sur reports that 25 year old Fernando B. now faces a fine of upto 276 € after being stopped by the police outside the Plaza Mayor leisure centre last Tuesday.

He claimed that he was well dressed with the trousers which went below the knee, and claimed that other drivers had sometimes picked up clients wearing just a bathing costume and flip-flops.