London battles fire-breathing black cabs

Transport for London last week announced the temporary withdrawal of 500 black cabs following eight spontaneous combustion events in three months - the first incendiary transportation incidents in the capital since Red Ken Livingstone's removal from office apparently contained the fire-breathing vehicle menace. Sadly not. TfL …

[Anonymous Coward]

Defcon Schwarzenegger - shurely shome mishtake?

>" * Schwarzenegger - 98 per cent likelihood of a full-blown hoover uprising "

Shouldn't that be a full-sucked hoover uprising?

[John Miles]

It Appears the Lizards are getting braver

see how they are seen out and about with what looks like a publicity stunts for Google's new phones

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2989443/Mystery-of-the-albino-androids.html

[Anonymous Coward]

CCTV footage or it didn't happen.

bring out the toy box

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, it's about time

And I, for one, welcome our new fire-breathing black cab overlords.

[Anonymous Coward]

London??

Are London Black Cabs specially fitted for this?

[Gerrit Hoekstra]

Did it combust out of sheer surprise when the driver used the indicator for the first time?

...mine's the one with the working brake lights.

[Anonymous Coward]

Expensive, Elitist, Expensive Transport

...that should never have been allowed in bus lanes (not that they should have been allowed either, not anyway). Give the bus lanes to the half-reasonable mini-cabs and let the taxis stay stuck in the traffic.

Elitist and expensive.

Did I mention? Expensive too?

[Ron Eve]

Fitting

Expensive? Check

Uncomfortable? Double double check

Elitist? Check

Choosy? Check (try hailing one after midnight if you're a bloke with a mate)

Have you seen the ones with the useless 'internet' screens in the back? What a fu*king liberty!

Couldn't happen to a nicer class of vehicle.

/because they're a joke (albeit unfunny).

[Ishkandar]

@Thad

You're just jealous that you don't have any national symbols in your part of the bog !! London's black cabs are renowned worldwide and London's cabbies have a built-in sat-nav in their brains - see scientific(??) proof in BBC website. Other world renown cities have paid big RMBs for the right to use those cabs in those cities !!

Still, I can't blame you hicks for being jealous but could you, please, take that bit of straw out of your mouth before you go "oo-arrrr" !!