London Warning or Danger Tips by M0B1US

By world standards London is a very safe city to visit - you usually have to be doing something pretty stupid to run into any problems.

One stupid thing would be to accept a ride from an illegal minicab!

Usually you are figuring out how to get home after a night on the town and a dodgy looking car pulls up generally (but not always!) driven by a black or middle eastern man asking if you need a taxi - WALK AWAY, DO NOT GET INTO THE CAR!

There is a reason why these drivers have to tout for business: Their cars are usually death traps and unroadworthy, the drivers often don't know where they're going (because they haven't taken 'The Knowledge' like black cabbies) and drive dangerously, they are often illegal immigrants or criminals who have been known to rape women travelling alone or rob their passengers.

Why do people take them, as so many do (there are an estimated 1,000 illegal minicabs on London's streets!)?

It could be because Black Cabs are expensive or often too few and far between.

Also, minicab offices in London don't necessarily vet their drivers - so don't think that because they have an office they are going to be any better. Two of the minicab offices near where I live are total cowboys, but they are in the yellow pages!

A safe alternative are the Night Buses which run literally everywhere throughout the city. They are frequent, cheap and guaranteed to be full of people heading home after a great night out! If you are staying at any of the accommodation I will be highlighting, none of the night bus routes will be stopping further than a 100m away.

The man that was killed died because he had his head in through the passenger window arguing over not getting his change, the driver sped off and he fell, getting his head crushed under the car's rear wheels - thus also crushing potentially brilliant career.

Motto of the story, if you take a ride in one, agree the fare in advance and hand over exact money - you may think you're saving money, but is your life worth only a few coins?

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Website: www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/5343612?source=Evening%20Standard

These morally misguided do gooders were campaigning about how the evil mayor of London Ken Livingstone has banned the feeding of pigeons in Trafalgar Square and that he regularly has birds of prey at the square to deter them...

Listening to them you'd think that he was the devil incarnate, calling the use of birds of prey 'bloodsports', when it is only the natural order of things!

Pigeons are vermin - rats with wings that spread dirt and disease, covering our buildings and monuments with their *** and filth!

We as taxpayers have to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds every year cleaning up this ***!

They also bully the smaller and prettier birds, so that the only birds you see are these damned pigeons!

Please if you have any respect for London and her citizens, DO NOT FEED THE PIGEONS!!!

I will leave you with a thought: If you feed the pigeons, you are responsible for random ***ting on our city!

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So you think I am about to warn you about the danger of suicide bombers?

On the contrary!

Indeed, if you feel intimidated by the suicide bombers, as well as giving them the victory they so crave I am WARNING you that you face the very real DANGER of missing out on one of the world's greatest and foremost cities!

To put things into perspective, of the 8 attacks, both sucessful and unsucessful, in the 24 years of having lived in London I have NEVER travelled on either of the bus routes targeted and have never been at the tube locations at the times they were attacked EVER! Neither was I during the time of the IRA attacks...

Seriously the chances of your being caught in an attack are minuscule - you would probably have more chance being run over by a double decker bus!

Besides, now is a perfect time to visit because those people who are being intimidated and choosing to stay at home are only making things less crowded and more pleasant for the rest of us...

Don't let the terrorists win - come to London!

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