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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Taxi firms suspect telephone sabotage |
Taxi firms suspect telephone sabotage TWO Basildon taxi firms believe their telephone booking lines were sabotaged. Value Cars and A and B Taxis believe their phone lines were deliberately targetted in a spate of vandalism yesterday. Value Cars lost its booking line at 12.30am and was still out of action 12 hours later. The firm’s drivers believe the telephone junction box, backing on to Value Car’s office, in High Road, Pitsea, was sabotaged, although police believe the problem was caused by a fault on the line. Gary Brand, 41, co-owner of A and B Taxis, has also offered a £1,000 reward, to anyone with evidence leading to the arrest of whoever sabotaged five of his firm’s freephone booking phones. He claimed wires to A and B’s phones were cut at the Eastgate Centre exit, by the taxi pickup point off Southernhay, and inside the Adsa store in the Eastgate Centre, between 7.30am and 9am yesterday. He also said A and B’s phones at Tesco in Pitsea and in Basildon Hospital’s main entrance, accident and emergency and outpatients wards were also sabotaged. Mr Brand said: “It meant customers couldn’t call us from any of the lines, so we must have missed out on hundreds of bookings. “It’s definitely sabotage, because you can see where the lines were cut. “I sypathise with Value Cars if they have been sabotaged too, as whoever is doing this is hurting the whole taxi trade.” Mia Walker, owner of Value Cars, claimed several of her staff heard noises around the back of the firm’s Pitsea office, just before their lines went down. She said: “When they went to look, the cover on the telephone junction box had been opened. “The wires hadn’t been cut but it looked suspicious. “It’s been devastating to have the lines down all this time and we must have lost over £4,500 in bookings.” Nishan Wijerante, spokes- man for Essex Police, said: “Police are making enquiries to an allegation a number of freephone installations were damaged. Officers will be speaking with the owners of A and B Taxis in order to obtain more details.” |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:32 pm ] |
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Its not all bad news in Basildon tho Link! Link! CC |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:21 pm ] |
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Its not on though sabotaging the competition is a criminal action and if it turns out to be another taxi firm doing it then they should be stripped of their licenses |
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