Here’s our picture of the week – and could it be an image for our time?

Certainly it would never have occurred to online agent Housesimple when it decided to go for branding on a taxi how it might look if the vehicle conked out.

Nor could it possibly have occurred to it that an associate of a gleeful competitor might just happen to be standing by, camera at the ready.

We are just wondering whether to turn this into a caption competition.