Cab Licence Wanted: Hackney Cab C60 TXR

surely they can revoke them? but maybe only after police complaints/convictions etc

This is not a 'fact' as such, just your own experience, I think the general rule is that without supporting evidence it is just your word against his.

What is there to stop me (or anyone) making a nuisance (false) charge against someone I dislike, getting the police to go and 'have a word' and 'give him something to think about' ?

christ.

of course it's a 'fact', as it happened.

and there's nothing to stop you doing that. nothing at all. the police will exercise their judgement as to what action is best to take , in each individual case. if they believe you, and think your complaint is genuine, then there's every chance they might go and have a word. especially if they think it is a serious complaint about a dangerous person.

christ.

of course it's a 'fact', as it happened.

Sorry I didn't mean to cause you any offense, I was just trying to point out that your own personal experience does not make the idea that police will follow up complaints when there is no supporting evidence a fact.

and there's nothing to stop you doing that. nothing at all. the police will exercise their judgement as to what action is best to take , in each individual case. if they believe you, and think your complaint is genuine, then there's every chance they might go and have a word. especially if they think it is a serious complaint about a dangerous person.

Agreed, but without supporting evidence their hands are tied.

i am an ex London cab driver and cyclist so not all bad.......Inform the Public Carriage Office [PCO] in Penton Street....half way between Angel and King's Cross Station......on right going towards King's Cross.

it was clearly a wanky wanky thing to do and i've no doubt i'd have turned the air blue and reported the guy too if i could but attempted murder? really? that seems a little hysterical to me.

You what? So if he had've smashed into Mouse on purpose and killed him, what would that have been? GBH, assault with a deadly weapon, manslaughter?

Is there some sort of three strikes rules with cabbies - three complaints against their cab number in a year and they have to go up to some sort of tribunal to reassess their abilities. Or have I been reading the Book of Dave too much recently?

Mouse, sounds like a nasty experience.

i am an ex London cab driver and cyclist so not all bad.......Inform the Public Carriage Office [PCO] in Penton Street....half way between Angel and King's Cross Station......on right going towards King's Cross.

can you expand? is it true about the three strikes?

as an ex-cab driver your probably in the best position for informing us all what the best way to act in this situation would be.

I would just like to clear this up. This was a mini cab not a London black cab / hackney carriage, correct?

If you are going to pursue this you will need a crime reference number from the police so report it. I doubt anything will happen but it's worth a try and counts towards the stats.

black cab, waiting at lights in photo!

Marxist Fixie, fair play for coming on here and giving advice. Cabbies, Bus drivers, coppers and the yellow tabbard brigade are generally scum on here, to the masses atleast :-)

Marxist Fixie, fair play for coming on here and giving advice.

+1

It's stereotyping that led to this problem in the first place ("I've had enough of 'you lot'"i.e. all cyclists in London, the world, whatever). Let's all try and keep an open mind.

Time for some rough justice I say

Let's all try and keep an open mind.

But not so open that your brain falls out, let's not be hasty and rule out a cabbies vs cyclist war that quickly descends into cannibalism.

I would just like to clear this up. This was a mini cab not a London black cab / hackney carriage, correct?

If you are going to pursue this you will need a crime reference number from the police so report it. I doubt anything will happen but it's worth a try and counts towards the stats.

no, it was a black cab, mouse said

maybe the cabbie saw someone trackstanding on his roof and another cyclist pssn on his passenger door a few hours before your incident...hence hates 'your kind'

Hahahaha! ;-)

At Tynan

I though it is was a black cab to start with but some of the comments seemed more mini cab based. Ok carry on. Tar and feather.

Racist

Nice that you chopped the shot tynan, but you coulda actually gone with this thread subject

How about

"I said I did indicate - I lied"

justmouse and chugit: weird, sounds almost exacly like the shit I got into between Peckham and Vauxhall a few months ago (see thread "Specialised London Lamesters" if you can be arsed, most of it ended up being about my cycle cap). Black cab, middle aged guy (though he was wearing glases - none mentioned here). I was doing nothing wrong at all though looking at your stories may have undertaken him - though as I was in buslane it just didn't count, more a case of me going faster. He swerved into me somewhere around Peckham High St with the intention of ploughing me into the line of parked cars between me and the pavement, no doubt about it at all - my mate was cycling with me and couldn't believe it watching from a few yards back. When I looked at the cabbie in disbelief he was laughing. I went nuts once I saw he had done it deliberately and I chased him all the way to Vauxhall, nice fast roll, catching him at many red lights, rolling up each time and calling him many names and telling him we had his details and he was fucked. Last light before the bridge he picked up a passenger, whom I informed was riding with a cabbie unworthy of his job.

I didn't do anything about it in the end. Maybe I should try and dig the license plate out, see if it matches.

You what? So if he had've smashed into Mouse on purpose and killed him, what would that have been? GBH, assault with a deadly weapon, manslaughter?

oh i dunno, i mean i wasn't there and i''m not defending the guy at all but i'm pretty sure that if he'd *really *wanted to kill anyone with his cab he could and would have. i get forced over by cars, cabs, busses all the time. if i didn't avoid them i'd have been hit and yes potentially killed... does that mean they tried to kill me? fair enough this guy sounds like a length, a dangerous and deeply unpleasant person who quite probably deserves to be off the roads. but still, i think attempted murder is probably probably overstating it a tad.

@ pajamas: yes please.

@ dooks: what he may take as a bit of rough & tumble shit scaring is not how it is perceived by the person at the other end of it. (Ever had a BB / air gun pointed at you - remember how the perceived threat feels a lot different depending on which side of the gun you are?).