I doubt it, black cabs are the only ones you can flag down in London and they take babies in pushchairs. I suspect their appearance and belongings were factors, black cabs are very circumspect about whether you look like you can pay (the least worst of the reasons I can think of
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OK. Obviously different in different places. In Glasgow, if they stop they’re going to take you. Unless, like I say, they think you’re going to throw up in the back. Or not pay.
Yes, I never had a problem getting cabs with a baby. Actually, the drivers tend to be quite good about it - middle aged or older guys with a chance to play grandad for a while. Probably makes a nice change for them from city boys and tourists.
It’s just because it’s so much harder once you cross the river for them to rely on being flagged down after your fare. They're suddenly not running around Central London where fares are ten a penny, but will have to drive back there to get back on track. If you’re going south, it’s best to get in and get sat down before revealing that. Take your jacket off too, ideally, and get really comfortable before you hit them with the news.
No, I get that. I’ve seen it on TV.
Well, it’s not just a TV trope, it’s an actual thing. Should you ever need to, take my advice and wangle your way into the back first, get sat down, scatter your stuff around to make it clear you’re not getting up again (because if you don’t, they might even ask you to hop out - I’ve had that now and then too), let them pull off into traffic (sighing and being generally distracted gets them into a false sense of comfort enough to head off from the kerb), and then say it.
I think London black cabs are meant to take you if they stop and your destination's within a certain distance of central London or something but in practice...
Not bad for a bunch of Baby Eating Surrender Monkeys/Anarchists (whichever 'era' you're from).
I know.
The couple have travelled widely. Bolton, Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester.
Ahh. I haven’t followed their travels around the country, just dipped into this thread once or twice.
There are places outside London. Most places are, in fact.
There's also hardly anywhere cabs can actually stop on Whitechapel Rd as well tbf.The flagging down of cabs thing. I suspect there's pretty good cctv coverage of Whitechapel Rd near that Argos. I know that area well, and I've been to that very Argos a couple of times too. I could imagine how two people with a baby, pushchair, a tent (probably in a box), and two sleeping bags would've looked a bit
It seems after being refused 3 times they just went off down Brick lane towards Bethnal Green Road and dumped the pushchair along the way somewhere. So sad.
deserves its own thread for us nosey parkers. must have been an interesting place to live.
They've left the country then, haven't they?
There's allowed and then there's able, though.
If you followed GBNews more avidly you would know that there are clearly unofficial ways of entering the country via the English Channel. With money, it won't be too much of a challenge to go the other way.
Clearly running away from something we don't yet know about.What the fuck are they doing
Or dropped off in the dark between Britain and France and relieved of their vast wad of cash
Can't find a direct quote (I remembered it from the radio) but you can see the tone indirectly in these two articles
www.mirror.co.uk
