hj dary
15-11-2005, 17:42
Just had a wierd day.
Was driving from Gleadless to Frechville. I went down Mansfield Road to the lights near the fire station and whilst waiting for them to change I saw a kid on a scooter with no helmet on ride up to the offside of this taxi.
The rider leant in to the car and snacthed the drivers bum bag which had his takings in.
He flew across the road towards me and I tried to block him off with my van but he took of over the grass and got away.
The main point of this post is to let you all know to be careful up there as this toe rag on the scooter was very slick, he was in the cab (through the open drivers window I should add) and off over the road in seconds.
It made me think and I've had my doors locked all day since.
The wierdest bit though was the taxi driver.
When he relized what had happed and saw I had tried to stop the thief, he came over to me but when he heard me giving the registration number of the scooter to the police on the phone he took the horrors and shot off in his car mumbling something about "they wont catch him anyway"
Now if this had been me I would have waited for the police to come and search the area to try and get my dosh back, but he had other ideas.
At work we were thinking the driver might have no insurance or be on the dole and working or something along those lines.
Anyhoo keep a look out at those lights ,cause if he's got away with it once you know he'll try it again.
:suspect: :suspect:
Was driving from Gleadless to Frechville. I went down Mansfield Road to the lights near the fire station and whilst waiting for them to change I saw a kid on a scooter with no helmet on ride up to the offside of this taxi.
The rider leant in to the car and snacthed the drivers bum bag which had his takings in.
He flew across the road towards me and I tried to block him off with my van but he took of over the grass and got away.
The main point of this post is to let you all know to be careful up there as this toe rag on the scooter was very slick, he was in the cab (through the open drivers window I should add) and off over the road in seconds.
It made me think and I've had my doors locked all day since.
The wierdest bit though was the taxi driver.
When he relized what had happed and saw I had tried to stop the thief, he came over to me but when he heard me giving the registration number of the scooter to the police on the phone he took the horrors and shot off in his car mumbling something about "they wont catch him anyway"
Now if this had been me I would have waited for the police to come and search the area to try and get my dosh back, but he had other ideas.
At work we were thinking the driver might have no insurance or be on the dole and working or something along those lines.
Anyhoo keep a look out at those lights ,cause if he's got away with it once you know he'll try it again.
:suspect: :suspect: