{"id":4115,"date":"2018-11-07T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/social-media-lifts-are-becoming-an-illegal-industry\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:44:18","slug":"social-media-lifts-are-becoming-an-illegal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/social-media-lifts-are-becoming-an-illegal-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media &#8216;lifts&#8217; are becoming an &#8216;illegal industry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Doing lifts&#8221; is the phenomena of using social media to buy and sell car journeys in an online illegal &#8220;taxi&#8221; service.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 people are members of a closed group in Bournemouth, Dorset, the equivalent of a third of the town&#8217;s student population. <\/p>\n<p>Once people are accepted into the group they can use their own cars to make money by charging for lifts in what taxi drivers in the town are calling an &#8220;illegal industry&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Drivers and passengers in the group do not have background checks or training, pay no fees and are likely to be unlicensed and uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth Borough Council said it was aware of the group and is taking the situation &#8220;very seriously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Video journalist: Ben Moore<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Reconstruction actors: Amber Doughty, Ethan Mclennan, Jasie Dafter, Kimberly Raven, Michael Knight, Andrew Barnett  <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-dorset-46048914\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Doing lifts&#8221; is the phenomena of using social media to buy and sell car journeys in an online illegal &#8220;taxi&#8221; service. More than 7,000 people are members of a closed group in Bournemouth, Dorset, the equivalent of a third of the town&#8217;s student population. Once people are accepted into the group they can use their &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}