Birmingham car cannibals shredded a vehicle outside my window – when will this end?
The sound of a high-pitched car alarm violently infiltrated my dream – something about pigs with chainsaws for noses. I stirred, unsure where reality began and sleep ended. Then my girlfriend jolted me awake. Something was happening outside our flat. I glanced at the time – 12.48am – and I soon realised the piercing noise wasn’t a figment of my disturbed imagination after all. She sprang into action before I did, running to the window to find two men ripping parts from a Yaris Cross. The shady thieves – wearing black puffer jackets with their hoods up – had already torn off the vehicle’s bonnet, window wipers and bumper. “Come quickly, you can see them,” she said, knowing that I’d long wanted to catch these devilish pricks, known colloquially as ‘car cannibals’, in the act. READ MORE: Blues fan calls for tough action after Peugeot stripped by car cannibals near St Andrew’s By the time I reached the window 50 seconds later, the savage brutes were making off with the parts in a getaway vehicle. …
