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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: extreme90 on December 08, 2006, 20:54:25
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ALL CAR OWNERS AND CAR
DRIVERS PLEASE READ WARNING!!!!
Be aware of new car-jacking scheme.
You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock all your doors, start the engine and shift or put into reverse.
You look into the rear-view mirror to back out of your parking space and you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle of the rear window.
So, you shift the gear stick back into park or neutral, unlock your doors and jump out of your car to remove that paper or whatever it is that is obstructing your view.
When you reach the back of your car that is when the car-jackers appear out of nowhere, jump into your car and take off!!
Your engine was running, you would have left your purse in the car and they practically mow you down as they speed off in your car.
BE AWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED IN LONDON/MANCHESTER MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
Just drive away and remove the paper later! It is stuck to your window and be thankful that you read this email.
I hope you will forward this to friends and family especially to women! A purse contains all identification, and you certainly do NOT want someone getting your home address. They already HAVE your keys!!!
JUST BE AWARE AND TAKE CARE IT WILL PROBABLY SOON ARRIVE IN YOUR AREA.
Brian Molloy
Detective Constable
Force Intelligence Bureau
Strathclyde Police
0141 532 5867
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Some good advice at the bottom of this page if you're worried about car jacking (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_carjacking.htm) :lol: :wink:
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Not True, its spam! but feasible and the more times it's posted on forums like this the more likely it is to happen!
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/carjack.asp
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Urban myth - but one of the better ones!
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Mates house was broken into when he was on holiday 2 weeks ago and completely gutted. When he came back called police etc. 20 mins after they had gone his car was driven of the drive (using is spare keys)
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Before posting stuff like this it's worth doing a Google search on a phrase or two. It yields stuff like this:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/car-jacking-warning.html
I'm sure we all appreciate people making the effort to pass on warnings, but the sole aim of urban myths like this is to try to get them as widely spread as possible, and this is exactly what happens if people post or email without doing 5 seconds of research first.
Also, reading the style of the warning, with bits in capitals and exclamation marks sprayed everywhere, does that really sound like the sort of thing Brian Molloy of the Strathclyde Police would write?
Sorry if it sounds grumpy but these viral things do annoy me. Not having a go at the OP but it would be good if people would be a bit more selective about forwarding these things.
Rant Over :)
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I noticed the "shift" bit for engagibg gear.
another thing :lol: :lol: It is illegal to reverse into traffic.
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snopes.com is a beter one for checking these out :)
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it was on a well know 4x4 parts website :roll:
still opens your eyes as its a simple but effective way :roll:
danny