New car-jacking scheme introduced in Manchester
The word ’scheme’ made me think that this email forward had a punchline. How wrong I was:
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.
Someone’s obviously had a bad experience…
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The only problem with that is, it’s one of those dodgy hoax emails that’s going round… it’s never actually happened!
By Andy on 01.09.07 3:20 pm
Why on earth would someone make up such a mundane hoax?
And I’m sure someone, somewhere, must have pulled this stunt.
There was an article with this bus driver in last week’s MEN, where he claimed kids opened his engine hatch so when he went to close it they could steal his money:
By Mancubist on 01.09.07 3:29 pm
It’s a chain letter that’s travelled around the world:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/carjack.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_carjacking.htm
That’s not to say someone won’t try it, but it would be a lot easier to just run up to someone and threaten to kill them, which is the usual method.
By Pete Birkinshaw on 01.15.07 9:33 pm
I love how they’ve scrutinised it in so much detail at the Snopes site.
By Mancubist on 01.17.07 12:13 am
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