Robbery

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  17 January 2013     09:16210466
  #1      
  a bit close to home for me.
  
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/2013/january/17/robbers_attack_taxi_driver.aspx
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
  • Posts: 6,950
  17 January 2013     09:22210469
  #2      
  Sensible of the cabby to yield-up his wallet. Now, if certain drugs were legalised some knowledge of new spending may have been forthcoming.
  Hopefully more precise descriptions of the offenders are available to the police.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 715

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
  • Posts: 2,438
  17 January 2013     09:35210471
  #3      
  Will there be more of this type of thing with the offenders knowing they will be very unlucky for a policeman to be near enough to catch them?
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 767

  • Registered: 30 Aug 2012
  • Posts: 458
  17 January 2013     13:15210497
  #4      
  I was told about this by a driver friend of mine, I gather it took place in Westbury Crescent, just a few doors from my own.
  Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  17 January 2013     13:30210498
  #5      
  i doubt whether extra police would stop this sort of crime martin, they would be patrolling areas with a history of crime/antisocial behaviour.
• Guest 643

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 1,321
  17 January 2013     14:02210502
  #6      
  Taxi drivers are so vulnerable, I wouldn't want their job. What a shame though that this sort of thing happens, makes you dispair of todays society.
  There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
• Guest 715

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
  • Posts: 2,438
  17 January 2013     18:03210559
  #7      
   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  i doubt whether extra police would stop this sort of crime martin, they would be patrolling areas with a history of crime/antisocial behaviour.

  You are probably right Howard but when the victim phones the robbery in it is easier to deploy from a local area than Lydd Margate or wherever and will give a better chance of the thieves being apprehended.
  Audere est facere.