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To summarise, Subaru Forester Turbo, around the Sparkhill area. I pulled up to park, and this Forester had followed me only down 2 roads so I thought nothing of it. Next thing I know, they're blocking the road after I've pulled into the space. Just to note, this area is FULL of speed bumps as it was around the Stratford road, and you can literally only fit one car down the road at a time, meaning the road was completely blocked.
Rear doors fly open, masked men with crowbars and axes jump out. My initial reaction was "No no no no, no way", they managed to hit the windows a few times. I spot a dropped kerb and mount it, I'm on the pavement doing 30mph then I jump off at the next dropped kerb which leads me straight on to Stratford Road. I absolutely floor it up Stratford road. I was accelerating hard for 15sec, so I'm sure you can work out how fast I was going.. Next thing I know, another car is blocking the road, it just randomly stopped, by a bollard in the road so it wasn't easy to get past, who knows if they were with them or not.
Anyway, fly down more of stratford road, traffic, traffic, traffic, hard right down a road full of speed bumps, I'm really going at it hard to get away. End of the road take a left and they're not in sight, but I'm still going, more speed bumps, and traffic, they appear in my mirrors again. So I'm going down all these back roads of Stratford road and I wasn't sure where I was going to end up. Speed bumps speed bumps, kids and families all over the place, I'm trying to signal, and they can see this Forester chasing me, this continued for a bit longer, but obviously, they're in a Forester, they're not slow and they've got a hell of a lot more ground clearance then me.
Anyway, couple more roads and then I take a right, flipping dead end
so sign posts no nothing, try to see if there's any gap, nothing, and then they ram me, they're at the windows again, and I'm fearing for my friend, thinking the windows are gonna cave shortly. No where for me to go, 3 guys outside the Forester and more inside. I give up. I shout you can have it. Unlocked the doors but the idiot is pulling my handle so my door doesn't unlock, the one guy steps back and my friend escapes. I'm stuck in the car, can't get out, can't drive it anywhere as I'm completely blocked.
So calmly, I grab my wallet, phone, pull the key out of the ignition and jump out the passenger door. I'm faced with a guy with an axe, and a guy with a with a crow bar, what the hell was I supposed to do, I dropped the key and ran.
I hear my car drive off, and I hear it for a good minute or so, man it sounds good...
Police were great, tracker company... well I'd rather not comment, but I'm going to. They hadn't received my transfer papers, so it was still under the previous owners name. Refused to give the police the location of my car, the woman specifically said she can see it on her screen. I was fuming, and it was still local. Only when I get to the police station did they contact me, and I had to pay £230 for her to tell them where my car was.. My car was stopped for 20min, obviously out of petrol because I know it was very low, and they've obviously made a clean get away. I've got the backing of the police and they want me to press charges for obstruction of justice, and sue their backsides off.
So today, they'll go over my car looking for stuff, they apparently found a hat in the car which will help a bit I suppose. The only funny thing was I guess is that all the people that saw, a) thought I was racing, b) kept telling me my car was spitting huge flames, and c) said they've never seen such good driving. At one point the car got so sideways it's untrue, I can actually picture the angle in my head, even I'm smiling about it!
Had it not have been for that dead end, and I had just got to the main road that I could see where the dead end was, I would have been well gone, they couldn't keep up. The reason I think they hit me too, was probably because they're brakes were shagged.
Ho hum eh? Gonna get it repaired and sell it.
Rear doors fly open, masked men with crowbars and axes jump out. My initial reaction was "No no no no, no way", they managed to hit the windows a few times. I spot a dropped kerb and mount it, I'm on the pavement doing 30mph then I jump off at the next dropped kerb which leads me straight on to Stratford Road. I absolutely floor it up Stratford road. I was accelerating hard for 15sec, so I'm sure you can work out how fast I was going.. Next thing I know, another car is blocking the road, it just randomly stopped, by a bollard in the road so it wasn't easy to get past, who knows if they were with them or not.
Anyway, fly down more of stratford road, traffic, traffic, traffic, hard right down a road full of speed bumps, I'm really going at it hard to get away. End of the road take a left and they're not in sight, but I'm still going, more speed bumps, and traffic, they appear in my mirrors again. So I'm going down all these back roads of Stratford road and I wasn't sure where I was going to end up. Speed bumps speed bumps, kids and families all over the place, I'm trying to signal, and they can see this Forester chasing me, this continued for a bit longer, but obviously, they're in a Forester, they're not slow and they've got a hell of a lot more ground clearance then me.
Anyway, couple more roads and then I take a right, flipping dead end
so sign posts no nothing, try to see if there's any gap, nothing, and then they ram me, they're at the windows again, and I'm fearing for my friend, thinking the windows are gonna cave shortly. No where for me to go, 3 guys outside the Forester and more inside. I give up. I shout you can have it. Unlocked the doors but the idiot is pulling my handle so my door doesn't unlock, the one guy steps back and my friend escapes. I'm stuck in the car, can't get out, can't drive it anywhere as I'm completely blocked. So calmly, I grab my wallet, phone, pull the key out of the ignition and jump out the passenger door. I'm faced with a guy with an axe, and a guy with a with a crow bar, what the hell was I supposed to do, I dropped the key and ran.
I hear my car drive off, and I hear it for a good minute or so, man it sounds good...
Police were great, tracker company... well I'd rather not comment, but I'm going to. They hadn't received my transfer papers, so it was still under the previous owners name. Refused to give the police the location of my car, the woman specifically said she can see it on her screen. I was fuming, and it was still local. Only when I get to the police station did they contact me, and I had to pay £230 for her to tell them where my car was.. My car was stopped for 20min, obviously out of petrol because I know it was very low, and they've obviously made a clean get away. I've got the backing of the police and they want me to press charges for obstruction of justice, and sue their backsides off.
So today, they'll go over my car looking for stuff, they apparently found a hat in the car which will help a bit I suppose. The only funny thing was I guess is that all the people that saw, a) thought I was racing, b) kept telling me my car was spitting huge flames, and c) said they've never seen such good driving. At one point the car got so sideways it's untrue, I can actually picture the angle in my head, even I'm smiling about it!
Had it not have been for that dead end, and I had just got to the main road that I could see where the dead end was, I would have been well gone, they couldn't keep up. The reason I think they hit me too, was probably because they're brakes were shagged.
Ho hum eh? Gonna get it repaired and sell it.
( not your fault ofc )
You did the right thing though. No point getting beat up or worse over a car!![[TW]Fox](/data/man-of-honor/2009.png){kind=avatar}