Cab Licence Wanted: Hackney Cab C60 TXR

@ 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?).

sure dude. sorry didn't mean to downplay the experience. i would have gone ba-fucking-nanas i'm sure. hope you track the cnut down.

No worries dude :)

What can I say, without evidence, witnesses and so on, they will do nothing.

Mr Dogsballs was a witness, no? You've photographic evidence of the time / place / CCTV cameras there.

Gotta be worth a try with the coppers, if only to show the PCO or whoever else you can find to complain to that you took the threat seriously.

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.

it's possible to able to kill someone without adding too much damage to the taxi, deliberately hitting someone is manslaughter when their life is on the line.

how can you avoid a vehicle who deliberately hit you??

spoke card time!

someone did something very similar to me along brighton seafront a while ago. i reported him to the police. bloody dangerous. he just saw red and tried to push me off the road. SCARY!!

I am seriously up for a laminate of that if someone's doing it.

yeah lets get STICKERS made up, exactly the same size as those 'cabs' have got, and stick these over the top

Of course, thing is they might not get the reference to the Bhagavad Ghita quote as being to do with their driving. Or in fact, get the reference at all.

or notice they are trawling the London streets for business sporting that on their back windscreen.

Could be great.......I see a Banksy-like ripple of intrigue in the offing...

it's possible to able to kill someone without adding too much damage to the taxi, deliberately hitting someone is manslaughter when their life is on the line.

how can you avoid a vehicle who deliberately hit you??

okay i was going to leave this but i'm so confused by this post i'm afraid i'm going to have to respond. i really didn't want to get into an ill educated (on my part) argument about legal terminology or semantics but oh dear that's exactly what i seem to have done. anyway, i hope this clears things up a bit.

"it's possible to to able to kill [sic] someone without adding too much damage to the taxi"

• ummmm yes i'm sure it is. not sure what your point is here.
  
  

"deliberately hitting someone is manslaughter when their life is on the line" -

well, no it isn't. manslaughter is (and i think you'll find this is the ahem legal definition) "deliberately and very actually killing someone to death". attempting to deliberately very actually kill them to death might be attempted manslaughter but i don't think that's what happened here either.

all i was saying was that i agree that this guy is a danger and yes, might have even inadvertantly caused a death by his actions (thank goodness he didn't), but i don't believe that he set out to deliberately very actually kill anyone to death here. the cab in question didn't hit anyone and to be honest i think you'd have a very hard time attempting to prove he did anything deliberately... let alone tried to kill anyone. to death. on purpose.

from the sounds of it though he did deliberately try to scare just mouse... which as you rightly pointed out could have potentially become a fatal situation. but once again... manslaughter? don't think so dude.

so once more with bells on: i am not defending or condoning this tumbling, *tumbling *dickweed's actions or downplaying just mouse's situation. i am just being a petty little internet pedant because i am bored today.

and finally: "how can you avoid a vehicle who deliberately hit you?"

• i agree that you can't avoid a vehicle that has hit you (deliberately or not) unless you have some sort of time machine i suppose. are you referring to what i said about avoiding being forced over? i believe all i said was that i get deliberately forced to take avoiding action all the time (as we all do) and that if i didn't i'd have been hit and potentially killed.
  
  

we clear? we cool? really don't mean to antagonise. i just got the impresison that you might have misread my earlier postings.

love and hugs

dooks.

Carry guns, keep them handy.

+1

okay, so how come:

please make sense.

well cupcake i didn't realize that i had to go so into detail over a very simple concept. firstly i was struck when i was 22 in nyc. i was struck the second time during an alleycat in upstate ny, and the third time in philadelphia. i have tossed one u-lock in my life (though various other things have flown subsequently after moving out of philly. wrenchs etc.)

also there are times that negligence causes collisions just as well as recklessness as was the case in NYC. so like i said. in philly it only takes a few locks in cabs windows to get them to be less likely to clip a biker.

yeah lets get STICKERS made up, exactly the same size as those 'cabs' have got, and stick these over the top

Of course, thing is they might not get the reference to the Bhagavad Ghita quote as being to do with their driving. Or in fact, get the reference at all.

I was actually referencing Oppenheimer at the Trinity test, but you are quite right as to it's origins. The Bhagavad Gita's sentiment is more ain't god wonderful - Oppenheimer's use was more 'Oh fuck, oh shit, just fucking look at that thing!', which I thought more fitting for the cabs.

;P

I was actually going to knock up some T shirts with this design on, but my market would be cycling, cab hating followers of Gita (or Nuclear physicists) !

LEAVE IT SANJAY…

This is the response I received from the PCO when I made a complaint..

Dear Sir / Madam,
Thank you for your email dated 6 September 2007.
The Public Carriage Office has no legislative power to investigate road traffic offences committed by cab drivers. I can only advise you that if you have a complaint about the driving behaviour of a cab driver you must report the matter in person to the nearest police station.
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 a conviction this will result in the taxi driver’s fitness to remain licensed being reviewed by the Licensing Authority.
Kind regards
Mr xxx xxx
Complaints Support.
Phone 020 7126 3152
taxi.complaints@pco.org.uk

funny sort of name,' XXX'..

The bloke's one X short of a Castlemaine.

xcist

tfl dont give a castlemaine four X.

I knew some cunt would mention that. I was being nice to the PCO guy that replied.

well Xcuse me

I knew some cunt would mention that.

Hello :)

he means me - i'm the cunt

I meant all of you.. you're all cunts.. me too.. but I'm a grumpy cunt and now I go sleepies early so hangover feelings go bye bye..