The daily Close Call

I have the opposite experience - the minicabs drive like bellends, but "civilian" bellends. You can generally predict what they'll do in the same way you might for a delivery van or a bus. The black cabs really seem to think they have a special dispensation to do whatever the hell they please, and as far as I can gather from watching them in action* the police concur and leave them to it.

*I lived just off Oxford Street for several years, where the highest densities of police and black cabs intersect. I never saw a black cab stopped for dangerous or careless, but I saw a LOT of other cars pulled over on slim pretexts.

+1

Unutterable, black-cab driving bastards. Consistently the worst, most arrogant and downright dangerous people on the roads (and there's some stiff competition out there from London's bus drivers).

Yes, there are a considerate, polite, good humored few, but the majority need pistol whipping with their wretched, over-charging meters.

Racist? Yep, the ones who aren't busy being date-rapists invariably are.

Sorry for the rant, but having been knocked about (quite literally) a few too many times by these twats - not to mention suffering more than my fair share of 'why this country's gone to the dogs' speeches when I've bee forced to sit in the back of their insufferable, bike-hating machines - I am well out of Hackney Carriage cheer.