Thursday 18th September 2003

Tough Medicine

Man jumps onto bonnet of his own car to stop it being stolen

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A phamacist from North London is in hospital this morning after trying to stop his car being stolen by jumping onto the bonnet.

Three men broke into his house in Southgate and stole a laptop and the keys to his Golf VR6. The man chased the burglars out of the house and then jumped onto the bonnet of his car as they drove away in it. He was flung off after about 150 metres.

The victim is being treated for cuts and bruising.

The Golf stolen is silver and has registration PF03 TXK.

[MEMSDesign]

>>> Edited by MEMSDesign on Friday 19th September 12:23

[pdV6]

Seriously - its not worth it for a piece of metal.

The same thing happened to a cousin of a good friend of mine a few years ago. Unfortnately he died from his injuries.

[joust]

It's amazing the human nature part of this. It's a hunk of metal, insured and replaceable. A human is unique, uninsured and irreplaceable.

Not worth the risk, but people still do it

J

[apache]

Unfortunately they'll get away with it, if he tracks the scum down and provides the Bill with a name and address they'll get away with it, even if he gives a reliable description of a crim with previous, they'll get away with it.
Now if they'd gone through a speed trap.............me? bitter? you friggin bet

[pdV6]

apache said:

Now if they'd gone through a speed trap...

...The owner would be slapped with a 'failure to disclose the driver'

[edc]

Thankfully he's alright and they didn't try to squash him against a wal or anything... but wasn't the Golf VR6 phased out well before this reg date?

[gh0st]

pdV6 said:

apache said: Now if they'd gone through a speed trap... ...The owner would be slapped with a 'failure to disclose the driver'