Taxi Driver Riddle

Is this guy a London cabbie? If so, the answer probably is, he couldn't afford the congestion charge :(
 
I do remember this show many years ago. But I never realized it was a slang for Taxi.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320022/
Summary:
'When corruption charges strip him of his job, his family and his pride, former cop Mike Olshansky forges a new identity as a Philadelphia cab driver, patrolling the city as a roving vigilante who works with local police."

I guess I never actually watched the show because I assumed "Hack" was his last name.
 
Thanks very much to all above posters,
for explaining that answer to me; I hadn't ever seen 'hack' related to taxi, or heard or seen, that story about the ex-cop cab driver.....

And thanks to Deb, for starting all this fun.

In my view, all of the SF posters' replies, guesses, and reactions, were much funnier and more enjoyable,
than the actual answer.

But all of it was a very welcome diversion for my day!:giggle::LOL:(y)
 
Hack is a noun.

So to use it as a verb in a joke doesn't work. It's not funny or clever. It's what's called "a stretch". Trying to make something work that doesn't.

If hack refers to a cab, it seems like it's a carry over from a time when cabs were horse drawn.

hack

hăk

noun​

  1. A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.
  2. A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.
  3. One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.
 
debodun said:
I did, too, and there were also other good answers but I was looking for my answer.
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I understand. I know how the game is played. But I wonder how long the guesses would have gone on in this case before someone came up with the hack answer had you not revealed it.

I imagine it may have gone on indefinitely.
 
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