Bastard black cab driver

[ViolentPanda]

??? one taxi goes through a red light and all blackcab drivers are
c**ts and your all going to get the bloke nicked ???

Taxi driver, are you?
As for them all being cunts, I do a little calculation in my head:
Number of times knocked off of motorcycle by (non-stopping and therefore law-breaking) licensed hackney carriage/taxi drivers = 2
Number of times knocked off of motorcycle by people who don't drive taxis for a living = 0.

and aparently hes a rasist ???

As you're a newbie you probably aren't aware that calling someone a "rascist" (note the deliberate mis-spelling) is an in-joke, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt rather than calling you a halfwit.

why dont you all grow up...

Why don't you stick your very small cock in a food processor?

 

[Major Tom]

Taxi driver, are you?
As for them all being cunts, I do a little calculation in my head:
Number of times knocked off of motorcycle by (non-stopping and therefore law-breaking) licensed hackney carriage/taxi drivers = 2
Number of times knocked off of motorcycle by people who don't drive taxis for a living = 0.

add in not indicating when turning- x 1000s
doing a u-turn suddenly and without warning - x 500
not signalling thanks when i give way to them - x 300
not stopping when I try to flag one down x 15
the number times that a black cabbie has deliberatley attemtped to run me down x 10
being beaten and kicked in the head for defending a woman who's bike had been rammed by cabbie - x1

it doesn;t matter whether i'm on foot, on a bike or in a car, they never fail to offend me.

 

[shortygoldtooth]

There are many good London taxi drivers and some bad. Jumping a red light is not a mortal sin is it? Cyclists do it all the time and most if not all professional drivers will have done it at some point.

So try and not be so judgemental eh?

That said, all of the bastards who work for ComCab get right on my tits, and their trade union the London Taxi Drivers association are the biggest wankers on the planet London.

 

[Major Tom]

This is the reply:

PCO/MISC/14316 Dear Major Tom,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 5 October 2005 regarding the actions of a licensed taxi driver.

Firstly, I would like to say that the Public Carriage Office has no legislative power to investigate possible road traffic offences committed by cab drivers and can only advise you that if you have a complaint about the driving behaviour of a cab driver you must report the matter to the nearest police station in person.

Whilst I recognise that the police have many responsibilities placed upon them, the fact remains that they are the only authority that can investigate the road traffic offences that you describe. In any event that action is taken, for example by way of conviction this will result in the taxi drivers fitness to remain licensed being reviewed by the Licensing Authority.

However your comments have been noted and your complaint will be placed on file for future reference. I am sorry that I am unable to do more in this instance.



Kind regards

Mr Valentine Owoade
Complaints Administrator.

Taxi Complaints.
Public Carriage Office
15 Penton Street
London N1 9PU.

T: 020 7941 7800 (9am to 4pm, Monday to Friday excluding Bank Holidays)
F: 020 7941 7894

 

[Major Tom]

There are many good London taxi drivers and some bad. Jumping a red light is not a mortal sin is it?

Are you so fucking brain-dead that you can't see the difference between a cyclist jumping a red light and a cab driving through a red light while 5 or 6 people were crossing?

and then he didn;t apologise or even acknowledge he did it.

I don;t believe in sin, but threatening pedestrian in this way is a fucking criminal act.

And he knew that there would be no punishment for him. He probably does it all the time.

I used to work in Paddington and it is my experience that over the 3 years I was there, EVERY black cab jumped lights.

I saw several accident caused by black cabs ignoring that yellow grid thing at junctions - they all did it, no exceptions - and blocking visiblity for buses. Every month there was a smash there CAUSED by black cabs. Nothing anyone could do about it of course, cos cabbies appear to be above the law.

 

[Pie 1]

Why don't you stick your very small cock in a food processor?

Arse! Thanks for that! My keyboard is now spatterd with tea.

 

[shortygoldtooth]

Are you so fucking brain-dead that you can't see the difference between a cyclist jumping a red light and a cab driving through a red light while 5 or 6 people were crossing?

and then he didn;t apologise or even acknowledge he did it.

I don;t believe in sin, but threatening pedestrian in this way is a fucking criminal act.

And he knew that there would be no punishment for him. He probably does it all the time.

I used to work in Paddington and it is my experience that over the 3 years I was there, EVERY black cab jumped lights.

I saw several accident caused by black cabs ignoring that yellow grid thing at junctions - they all did it, no exceptions - and blocking visiblity for buses. Every month there was a smash there CAUSED by black cabs. Nothing anyone could do about it of course, cos cabbies appear to be above the law.

Turn on yer sense of humour please.

 

[Skim]

RASCIST!!!

See, that's what hyphens are for. So people can tell the difference between black cab drivers and black-cab drivers

 

[ViolentPanda]

Are you so fucking brain-dead that you can't see the difference between a cyclist jumping a red light and a cab driving through a red light while 5 or 6 people were crossing?

About 35 hundredweight and a lot of inertia, as far as I'm concerned.
A cyclist might injure a single pedestrian, a taxi...well, they do enough damage intentionally, fuck knows how much they could do unintentionally.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Arse! Thanks for that! My keyboard is now spatterd with tea.

That's okay, think nothing of it!

 

[Major Tom]

Turn on yer sense of humour please.

Was what you said sposed to be funny

 

[bluestreak]

they are an intolerable bunch at times, but i tend to use them over minicabs whenever possible. safer, and can often be cheaper. those cabs are pretty tough bastards.

their driving habits can be appalling though.

 

[Major Tom]

If I was ever in a cab that went through red lights I'd get out & refuse to pay the fare.

 

[shortygoldtooth]

Was what you said sposed to be funny

Sigh, read it again please.

 

[Major Tom]

Sigh, read it again please.

no

 

[shortygoldtooth]

Well blimey thats a start.

 

[Major Tom]

Well blimey thats a start.

i read it again - as a humourist i urge you not to give up the day job.

 

[William of Walworth]

I fucking lothe black cab drivers. The shitiest, rudest & most arogant pricks on London's roads by a long shot.
Tossers.

I'm sorry, but this is unforgiveably sweeping judgementalism.

I'm not saying there aren't bigots or tossers among the black cab driving category, I've encountered one or two myself. And Major Tom's dangerous driver sounds like a complete arse.

BUT I've also encountered helpful, polite, friendly, interesting ones. Our local is the haunt of a few off duty cab drivers, most of them are Trade Unionists, including at least one out and out socialist, and even including one anarcho-syndicalist! One of them stopped cabdriving to become a history teacher.

This group is also more mixed than you'd expect.

In general, what used to be known as unlicensed 'cab' drivers, and minicab people, tend to be much more dangerous, IME as a cyclist. In my opinion, Major Tom's bloke was a rogue in both senses.

Some peole are alighting with glee on his (justifiedly) angry story/this thread in order to let loose their broader, not relevant and hate fuelled and bigotted bile against a group of people who ae somewhat more varied than they allow themselves to notice -- some of you are judging all of them by the worst/most conspicuous examples, the ones you notice and remember while ignoring the innocuous/nice ones (who are far more in number).

Sure there's not some superior sneering going on, at least subconsciously, against crude cockney working class people making good?

Perhaps these 'ignorant rude bigots' make more money than you and you don't like it (although a lot of them rent or HP their very expensive vehicle, and aren't as ruch as they might seem)

And I've never encountered one whose 'Knowledge' is not formidable -- the test is justly difficult and you need brains and extensive London awareness to have a chance of passing.

 

[shortygoldtooth]

i read it again - as a humourist i urge you not to give up the day job.

That comment is apt, perceptive and entirely appropriate. Thank you.

 

[Major Tom]

Perhaps these 'ignorant rude bigots' make more money than you and you don't like it (although a lot of them rent or HP their very expensive vehicle, and aren't as ruch as they might seem).

I doubt it since most of them whinge on endlessly about how little they're earning

 

[William of Walworth]

??? one taxi goes through a red light and all blackcab drivers are
c**ts and your all going to get the bloke nicked ???
and aparently hes a rasist ???
why dont you all grow up...

Callie's shout of 'rascist' was an Urban 75 in joke -- she wasn't saying the driver was

But the rest of your post is spot on!

 

[William of Walworth]

how charming.

Sipotential is right thouigh -- a lot of the more vociferous anti cab driver posts are by people who DO seem to have issues against them.

 

[William of Walworth]

The thing about black taxis is that because they are a sort of universally known 'uniform', every taxi driver represents every other taxi driver...I've seen the best and worst of them...
Worst; a driver who refused to take me home on a very hot day when I was heavily pregnant and feeling faint from the heat 'in case I dropped the sprog on the back seat'.
Best; the driver who would regularly see me on my way home from work and stop and give me a lift home for free because I worked with kids with disabilities and his son had cerebral palsy and he knew that the likes of me weren't doing the job for the money, because the money was shite.

Thank you for that fair and balanced view Mrs M

 

[christonabike]

From a cyclists point of view, they are some of the best drivers on the road, in my opinion

As are lorry drivers

These people just do not want to hurt you as they have a job to do

They all seem to appreciate efforts to ride a bike safely - looking over your shoulder before moving out, consideration for others on the road, quick off the mark at traffic lights (when you sit right in front of them in the green box), and very clear signalling - if they know where you are about to go, they let you

The amount of pedestrians I've nearly hit, though, fucking hell! I don't mean by going through red lights, either

This, of course, is all in my opinion

 

[William of Walworth]

Perhaps these 'ignorant rude bigots' make more money than you and you don't like it (although a lot of them rent or HP their very expensive vehicle, and aren't as ruch as they might seem).

I doubt it since most of them whinge on endlessly about how little they're earning

A point I pre-acknowledge in my parenthesis ...

 

[Major Tom]

A point I pre-acknowledge in my parenthesis ...

don't you rolly eyes at me rolly eyes

 

[toggle]

Sipotential is right thouigh -- a lot of the more vociferous anti cab driver posts are by people who DO seem to have issues against them.

quite probably because of the general lack of driving skills and manners. i can understand being grumpy, i would be grumpy too if i was sitting in that shitty traffic all day. however, the sort of behavior described by the op is hardly uncommon, being fed up with traffic is no excuse for that.

however they are not above the law, my partner used to work security on a magistrate's court and they made up a significant percentage of those up on driving offences.

 

[William of Walworth]

From a cyclists point of view, they are some of the best drivers on the road, in my opinion

As are lorry drivers

These people just do not want to hurt you as they have a job to do

They all seem to appreciate efforts to ride a bike safely - looking over your shoulder before moving out, consideration for others on the road, quick off the mark at traffic lights (when you sit right in front of them in the green box), and very clear signalling - if they know where you are about to go, they let you

The amount of pedestrians I've nearly hit, though, fucking hell! I don't mean by going through red lights, either

This, of course, is all in my opinion

Thank fuck! A refreshingly different view ...

I've encountered the occasional bad bastard of a taxi driver of course, I couldn't fail to, in over 20 years of near daily London cycling.

But by far the majority are good drivers and careful (IMO and IME).

 

[William of Walworth]

quite probably because of the general lack of driving skills and manners

Whats that I said about sweeping judgementalism?? I don't share your generalising impression in the slightest.

i can understand being grumpy, i would be grumpy too if i was sitting in that shitty traffic all day. however, the sort of behavior described by the op is hardly uncommon

Bit in bold -- I diagree , it's pretty rare in my (extensive) experience as a cyclist, and I do notice bad drivers!

being fed up with traffic is no excuse for that

No-one's claiming it is -- when it happens.

however they are not above the law, my partner used to work security on a magistrate's court and they made up a significant percentage of those up on driving offences.

I wonder what proportion those offenders are of AKLL taxi drivers though?

 

[shortygoldtooth]

Go down Cannon Street at 17:00 and watch the hordes of lemming like peds throwing themsleves into the path of the traffic!