A follow up piece on the Birmingham Mail's website yesterday seems to be based on comments left below the previous piece. It's generally quite sympathetic to the driver, as the headline suggests:
'No respect for bloke trying to earn living' - Reaction after fuming cabbie tackled England fanhttps://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/m ... n-20969674The taxi driver pulled the celebrating England fan from off his cab roof, causing him to fall to floor in Bennetts Hill in city centreHowever, we all know how these things can work out at times, and the Mail also cited this comment:
Birmingham Mail wrote:
But Jack Davies said the taxi driver could have caused serious injury to the England fan.
He said: "Hopefully the taxi driver has been reported and a full investigation takes place. That football supporter was lacking mental capacity through alcohol and the taxi driver assaults him.
"The supporter could've died or ended up in a wheelchair. The football supporter was in the wrong but the taxi driver overreacted."
West Midlands Police confirmed officers were not called to the scene and trouble linked to the football was 'minimal' in the city.
So hopefully the police quote at the end suggests that there may be no more official interest in the incident.
However, it appears the drunken fan was from Blackburn, and the Lancashire Telegraph has a piece this morning, headlined:
Blackburn man thrown from taxi roof celebrating England winhttps://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... gland-win/A FOOTBALL fan has spoken out about his night out supporting England - which saw him thrown from the top of a taxi after he clambered on it to celebrate.Won't bother with the whole article, but this is the relevant part:
Lancashire Telegraph wrote:
After going through a repertoire of legendary England anthems including Three Lions by Baddiel and Skinner, some started to sing "on the car, on the car", and an admittedly intoxicated Ashley duly obliged.
However, the taxi driver took a dim view of the 'superfan' clambering onto his roof and pulled Ashley's ankle as he tried to get off, causing him to take a heavy fall and land on the pavement.
Footage of the incident was shared with the Lancashire Telegraph and shows the unhappy taxi driver attempting to remove the man from his roof before driving off.
Ashley said: "Me and my mates went to Birmingham for the weekend to meet a few lads and ended up going to watch the game.
"After the game everyone was chanting England songs outside and then taxis were going past and some people were chanting 'on the car, on the car' - obviously me being drunk, I thought it was a bit of fun and I did it.
"I honestly thought it was hilarious when I fell off the taxi. I only had a cut on my elbow so it was worth it.
"It’s coming home."
Ashley understands why the taxi driver was annoyed and despite his potentially catastrophic fall, said he had 'no hard feelings'.
Well that's big of him
But that's not to say that action won't be taken against the driver, but obviously he was lucky that the drunk wasn't injured.
However, some of the comments below the latest article are unsympathetic to the drunk, to say the least
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If he had been 'celebrating' on the roof of my car he would have ended up with more than a flaming elbow scratch. His action are nothing short of hooliganism!
'Dancing' on the roof of a car could easily have ended up with the vehicle being scrapped!
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Of course he has paid for the damage to the taxi, or has he not? I assume he's being prosecuted for criminal damage too. Assuming he has a job and a car, I bet he would be delighted if someone jumped all over the roof. Oh what a giggle.
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I would've danced on his face, he got off EXTREMELY lightly.
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"no hard feelings" ? It's the taxi driver who should have the hard feelings at this clown attempting to cause criminal damage to both his property and livelihood.
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i cannot imagine the rage i would feel having somebody jumping up and down on my car roof that i need to make a living from. this young man should feel himself very lucky. i hope that the taxi driver now reports the incident as criminal damage/public order or whatever and this chap is given a fine and to pay for any damage caused.
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I don't blame the taxi driver one bit for pulling him off!! He'd have got more than that if it was my car. Absolute t*sser!
Quite a few more, and can't see any even remotely sympathetic to the hoon.
The Lancashire Telegraph coming in for a fair bit of stick as well for publishing an article which seems quite sympathetic to the perp.
Anyway, from the driver's perspective hopefully that's the last we'll hear about this one.
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