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When Call Sign met up with
Larry Miller (S35) recently, he was not a happy man. On
February 24th at around midday, Larry had parked his cab on the
pay and display bays in Dingley Road behind the Barbican Thistle
Hotel to use that hotels’ facilities. "I am sometimes a little absent minded," he admitted to Call Sign, "and I’ve left my money bag in some very posh hotels having then had to rush back a bit lively to retrieve it!" He grinned at the memory. "So to save myself further hassle, this time I hid my money bag in the cab, tucking it away out of sight in the driver’s compartment. Then I locked it up securely and walked into the hotel. I was gone about 5 minutes and on my return there was a lady standing by my cab saying "quick, quick!" At first I thought she was in a hurry and wanted a taxi, but then she explained that some little urchin had broken into the cab by smashing the window and stolen my money bag before pedalling off at high speed on his push-bike." "A young kid with a Russell Athletic jacket," she shouted to me as, oblivious to the broken shards of glass on the seat and all around me, I swung the cab around and began to cruise the local |
The Thief of Dingley Road… |
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streets - sadly without success - as the little toe-rag
disappeared into the maze of alleyways of the area," Larry
continued. "At Shepherdess Walk police station, I was told the security cameras did not show anything of significance so the whole experience has been a bitter pill to swallow. It become obvious to me that I was watched leaving the cab without my money bag about my person, which meant it had to be on the cab somewhere and this kid seems to have known where to look," Larry told us with a sombre look as his story brought the loss back to mind. "All in all, it’s not just losing the money bag, but the time involved reporting the crime to the |
police and the cost and time
to replace the smashed window. I reckon it has cost me around
£400. An expensive cup of coffee and wee," he said with a huge
sigh. But that was not to be the end of Larry’s frustrating week. Early the following morning he was bilked for a £20 fare! "Such is life," he said philosophically, "but I won’t let it get me down. Hopefully I’ll have used up my year’s supply of bad luck in those two days!" Larry ended by asking us to warn Dial-a-Cab drivers and everyone else that now seems to read Call Sign, to take any valuables with them when they leave their cab, even if it’s for just a short while… |
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