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Posted: 12:20 - 30 Sep 2018 Post subject: Taxi driver tipping off burglars? |
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I've searched and found a couple of cases of taxi drivers taking people to the airport tipping off burglar friends.
Is this really a wide spread thing?
Several families in this street have taken a taxi to the airport and their houses have been broken into shortly after.
Now I'm semi arguing with the other half now about driving her to the airport. I insist on driving her, but she thinks a taxi will be fine and the burglar taxi tip off thing is an urban myth.
Or I may just book her a taxi from the nearby pub instead.
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Posted: 12:44 - 30 Sep 2018 Post subject: |
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I wouldn't get obsessed about it, although even I've thought "crikey they're off to New York for two months, I wonder who lives in that Posh House in Windsor when they're not there, does it sit empty" ... although more from a "homeless people could be living there and its empty all the time" point of view.
But I've no doubt there are *some* taxi drivers who make conversation with their passengers and find out when they will be back. Just the same as there are taxi drivers who have friends that run brothels or hotels, and will take you to their friends and get a bung. I just don't think the burglars thing is as regular a thing as you suspect, so there's no point getting so bent out of shape that you insist on taking the Mrs to the airport yourself every time. MOST NORMAL taxi people wouldn't give it a second thought. There's always a bad apple in any barrel but that doesn't mean you get it every time.
Besides. You can always disengage from conversation and not tell the driver where you're going or for how long. Because for all they know (a) you might be back tomorrow and (b) they have no idea who else might be living in the house, or accessing it whilst you are away. If your cleaner comes in once a week, the taxi driver isn't going to know when or for how long, so they can't warn their scummy burglar mates about that, can they.
You could always lie to them, anyhow "Yeah, off on a business trip, back again in the evening" ... who cares if you lie to a taxidriver that you'll probably never see again anyway.
As well as that, the driver isn't going to know whether you live alone or whether you have family, so how will they know if you have people coming and going (or not) ... you'd have to quiz your passenger on so many aspects of their trip that you'd look suspicious. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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So a couple days later?
I've had my doorbell rang at 11pm.
CCTV caught a fully hooded man. The CCTV taken from across the street catches the lights going on in my home and him running into a waiting van.
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If you took her to the airport, someone else must be tipping off the burglars. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 196 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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