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I probably wouldn't have thought of it at the time either, but could've suggested to his clients that his services perhaps weren't worth paying for and that as they departed the vehicle they would also be in a perfect position to note the minicab license number and car reg for reporting to roadsafe & TfL.
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About to make my first ever report to roadsafe for whatever it is worth. Had a mini cab try to bully me off the road on Portland Place.
I was pulling away from the lights heading towards Park Crescent when the car behind starts hooting and revving, I look back and he's so close he's virtually touching my back wheel. There are cars parked on the left so I've nowhere to escape to and he just accelerates past with a few inches to spare.
Inevitably he is sat at the next set of lights at the Marylebone Rd junction so I pull along side to have a word. Either he doesn't notice me next to him or he is ignoring me so I tap on his window, he rolls it down and immediately launches into a "don't touch my car" routine and follows on with the "you shouldn't be in the middle of the road" schtick. I suggest that as he does it for a living he should perhaps "fucking learn to drive" sometime, which prompts him to make a vague "if I didn't have clients in the car..." threat. And he was right, he did have "clients" in the car, in fact there were two sharing the other front seat. I put an end to our discussion as the rage is threatening to take over and he's a big fucker so I would be no match if I did decide to do something silly.
When the lights go green I realise he is also heading into the park and, as I don't fancy having him try to overtake as I'm going through the gate, I slow up to let him pass. Silly fucker still does the brake and swerve at me as he passes.
Got the reg and a description but there was no contact, and probably not enough verbals to constitute proper threatening behavior, so Roadsafe and hope he gets caught for something before he does some actual damage to someone.