Mini Cabs From HellWe've all taken a dodgy cab in our time. One guy asked me to give him a back-rub in exchange for letting me off the fare. I was like, "here's the cash mate." Another chappy claimed to be Paddy Patel - a child actor from UK TV series Tuckers Luck - he drove like a speed freak and regaled me with stories that "playing a black Irish boy. England wasn't ready for it." So go on - tell us your worst and we'll tell the world.
[edit: for those confused by the term mini-cab, London has two sorts of taxis: highly regulated, licensed and salt-of-the-earth black cabs that you see in films and a whole bunch of unlicensed, uninsured, random cars driven by nutters who aren't supposed to pick up from the street (you have to phone for them). They are universally rubbish]
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rob, Wed 26 May 2004, 21:44)
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My dad was a minicab driver...My dad used to drive a minicab at nights in order for our little family to survive. One night he picked up a very drunk group of three people, they were OK in the back of the car until they had to drop the first one off.
The first bloke to get out was a very green-about-the-gills policeman. His chums thought it would be funny to simply chuck him out of the car and tell my dad to keep going. My dad complied and as they pulled up to the copper's house they opened the door, shoved him out, closed the door and told my dad to keep going, giggling all the way.
Two seconds after my dad pulled away he heard a rythmic thumping sound like a mudflap. He looked at his mirrors, didn't hear anything and kept going. The blokes in the back knew what was happening, opened the door for a split second and closed it again. A few seconds later the man appeared in my dad's rear-view mirror giving my dad a thumb's up.
It wasn't until next motning that my dad realised what had happened. As they threw the copper out, they shut the door and caught the poor sod's thumb in it, dragging him 200 yards down the road and giving my dad's hubcap a nice polish on the way.
(, Thu 27 May 2004, 17:06, Reply)
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