Ahh Rwanda
Tha taxis in Rwanda are amazing- the driver will cram in as many people as possible, meaning the back seat holds a football team or two, the passenger seat holds 3 and the driver SHARES his seat with an extra passenger. Travelling like this he still tries to cram in anyone who sticks their arm out en route.

However (this does get good, bear with me), there are regular car-check posts where the police throw you in jail if you've got more than the regulation number in your car. Rwandans are lovely friendly people and look out for each other (genocide aside, ahem) so they have a system where a car coming at you will flash you if there are police up ahead.

Now there's not a lot you can do if your car is more overcrowded than Hillsborough and you're a couple of hundred yeards from a police check, or so you'd think... however in a resourcful move which would make Maggie Thatcher proud, hoards of boys on bicycles wait the couple of hundred yards down from policed check-points, waiting for heavily loaded cars to empty out the illegals. Then then run them across the check-point on the back of their bikes (boy-powered bike-taxis are totally legal of course) and deposit them rond the next corner. The taxi driver gives them 10p each and everyone is a winner.

I've just realised this is slightly off-topic, but it was ace and I wanted to share.

Length- well they are black so you work it out...
(octopuspie, Fri 30 May 2008, 16:23, Reply)