I got in one at Central a few years back and asked him to take me out to the SFS. The Driver then proceeded to tell me that the SFS was gone and had been replaced by the Stadium at Homebush and that he would take me there. We then had an argument about how stupid that comment was and in the end I told him to take me to the SFS and I bet him the fare that it would still be there and that there was a game on that day. He wasn't too happy when I travelled there for free. Mind you, he nearly killed me on the way there with his crazy driving.
According to the cab driver who took me from Melbourne Airport to the hotel there last week, they have just had a big crackdown down that way on foreign taxi drivers. Apparently, one foreigner would come and get a taxi license and then all of their relatives would use it. No one would ever question them because they looked similar enough. The driver telling me this was from Iraq originally, but he said it was most prevalent amongst people of African and Indian descent. Apparently one guy they busted down there driving a cab had only been in the country for 3 days and it was his first ever time here. He knew how to use GPS so he had no trouble getting around.