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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I've had two suspicious illegal cab rides in london#1 The first was a cab on Upper Street. I got in about 1-2am and was reasonably merry. After a few minutes i realised that the car had no wing mirrors or rear window. There was also a large crack in the windshield.
This made me rather nervous, but being drunk I thought it was my duty to ask how this damage occured. He said quite calmly that his wife caught him in bed with another woman, and promptly took to the car with a baseball bat.
#2 About 4am I was leaving a club in London and needed to get back to Winsor. This would have cost £80+ in a black cab. 'Luckily' we found a 'cabbie' that would take us for £20, too good to be true. We set off at great speed (in his Renault 5) we all fell asleep. I woke with us on the motorway with the car veering from lane to lane. I asked him what was wrong and as i did he pulled onto the hard sholder. He had run out of petrol.
I got a mate to come and pick us up, although he couldnt find us anywhere on the M40. Turns out the guy had also been driving us towards Wales rather than Winsor on the M4. Great.
(, Thu 27 May 2004, 9:10, Reply)
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