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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.It was 3am and i was in the back of a cab in Birmingham engaging in idle chat with the Asian driver. The conversation then took a turn "You want to make some cash mate" said the cabbie "sure how?" was my reply
"smuggling"
"no thanks mate i'm not in to drugs" i said
"no mate not drugs, weapons" said the driver.
He then explained how his family have a gun-running business on the Pakistan border. I politely declined the offer.
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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Thu 27 May 2004, 7:07,
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