# BBC screwup, mistakes cabbie for internet music expert, with video! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734 "2006-05-14T14:32:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/1 "2006-05-14T14:32:37Z")
Here’s the [link](http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770), and the article is right, the look on the guy’s face when he finally realizes what is happening is classic. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/2 "2006-05-14T14:39:31Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Here’s the [link](http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=386136&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770), and the article is right, the look on the guy’s face when he finally realizes what is happening is classic. [/QUOTE] Poor guy. I probably would have done the same thing if put in that position. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/3 "2006-05-15T01:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] Poor guy. I probably would have done the same thing if put in that position. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah. Another funny thing is they still didn’t seem to know who the heck he was. Wonder if he just ran away as soon as the camera cut away, hehe. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/4 "2006-05-15T03:06:55Z")
Apart from his diction, he didn’t make much less sense than most interviewees on news channels. And he was a lot more reasonable than most cab drivers I’ve met. Really, really funny. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/5 "2006-05-15T03:35:08Z")
Here’s the response from the real guy: > **[newswireless.net .:. Guy Kewney's Mobile Campaign](https://www.hotelinveneto.com/newswirelessnet/)** It seems to indicate that there’s more video. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/6 "2006-05-15T08:09:29Z")
That doesn’t sound to me like there’s any more footage. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/7 "2006-05-15T09:16:24Z")
The funniest thing for me is the way he seems to warm to his subject after floundering a bit on the first question. And then the BBC reporter that they cut to agrees with his last point 😃 ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/8 "2006-05-15T09:33:39Z")
How do they know he was a cab driver? ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/9 "2006-05-15T09:37:32Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] That doesn’t sound to me like there’s any more footage. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > At first, he seemed puzzled that anybody might imagine that the lawsuit had consequences, and suggested that people would still be able to download music from Internet cafes. But what about Apple? “I don’t know. I’m not at all sure what I’m doing here,” he admitted sadly, as they finally twigged that something was going badly wrong, and hustled him off the set." He didn’t say that in the clip. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/10 "2006-05-15T10:09:16Z")
¡Ay, pobrecito! He was pretty honest, as far as I can discern–but still more informative re: pertinent issue than a US presidential policy press conference… [d&r] ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/11 "2006-05-15T10:19:09Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] He didn’t say that in the clip. [/QUOTE] Sounds to me like the guy’s being a little creative in his blog. And the way I read it, he hasn’t been able to rewatch the footage, and so is relying on his memory of the first bemused viewing. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/12 "2006-05-15T12:35:34Z")
I have to agree with the real guy’s contention that the BBC should have put the real him on as soon as possible with a short explanation about the mistaken interview, and let him give his commentary so that people wouldn’t think that was actually him. Unfortunately when I played the clip I only got an opening picture of the woman, and the sound, so I didn’t get to see the cabbie’s reactions. I need a better computer. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-screwup-mistakes-cabbie-for-internet-music-expert-with-video/356734/13 "2006-05-15T13:30:30Z")
If you look near the end of the clip, just before they switch to the guy on the link, the interviewer is verbally stumbling and treading water; I’ll bet there was someone screaming “it’s the wrong guy! we’re interviewing the wrong guy!” in her earpiece.