AD looks back: taxis stolen by 'Bonnie and Clyde' in 2001

According to AD.nl, a recent retrospective from the newspaper concerns a criminal duo who stole several taxis in early November 2001. The newspaper at the time nicknamed the couple Bonnie and Clyde. One of the taxi drivers involved heard a gun shot go off during one of the incidents. The article is part of a regular AD section in which previous crime cases are retrieved, and appeared a few weeks after an article about a taxi war that gripped The Hague and surrounding municipalities for years.

This kind of retrospective shows that taxi drivers in the Netherlands traditionally practice a vulnerable profession: alone on the road, often with cash on board and unknown to the passenger until he or she has boarded. In the decades that followed, issues like these contributed to stricter requirements for driver identification, on-board computers and, for many taxi companies, the largely abolition of cash payment.