Taxi Driver Online

Obviously someone has caused offence to someone else here

And pretty brazen to do it in a location like this at 7.30 am

Don't know if the perp is identifiable from the video on the Mail's website, but usefully they've blurred it out

But you'd think that, with the amount of CCTV and doorbell cams around these days, then it wouldn't be difficult to at least identify the PHV the perp left in...

...assuming, of course, police are even remotely interested


Shocking CCTV shows city vandal smashing up taxi before 'leaving in another cab'

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/m ... l-29474803

The taxi's windows were smashed on Edmund Road, Alum Rock, at 7.30am, on Thursday, July 4

This is the shocking moment a vandal is caught on CCTV smashing up a taxi in an early morning rampage in Birmingham. Footage then appears to show him getting into another taxi before he leaves the scene.

A parked Toyota Corolla GR Sport hybrid is targeted as the alarm sounds on Edmund Road, in the Alum Rock area of Birmingham. Five high spec windows were smashed - leaving damage costing over £1,000 - following the smash at around 7.30am yesterday, Thursday, July 4.

The bashed-up motor belongs to Rozzii, a Hockley-based taxi hire specialist, with West Midlands Police investigating. The firm's chief executive Jameel Malik told BirminghamLive: "The vehicle damaged was one which we hired out to a driver. Someone has come and smashed up that vehicle.

"He's then gone into a taxi. We've been trying to understand what motivation (might be behind this incident) and we've been struggling to understand it. He's used something to smash the windows and the back window."

"When something like this happens our insurance premium goes through the roof. They were already very high." Other reports suggested another car on the same street was also vandalised at around the same time, but that has not been confirmed.

A police spokesman told BirminghamLive: "We were alerted to a car being deliberately damaged in Edmund Road, Birmingham, at just after 7.30am today (4 July). We'll be carrying out enquiries and anyone with information can contact us via Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101, and quote log 621 of 4/7/24." The firm also said information can be passed to them by emailing office@rozzii.co.uk

To me since the driver of the other PHV waited whilst the windows were smashed they knew what was happening and participated. This would suggest trade related gripe to me but since the police said they were investigated hopefully they will catch them and get to the sharp end of the dispute.

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Maybe the fella left in his mate's car.

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