4:41 p.m. - 2005-09-13
be careful
A NEW FORM OF KIDNAPPING
Please take a minute to read this. This is very scary and could happen to
any of us.. Seems like every nice thing people do for one another can be perverted . A new twist on kidnapping....... From a very
smart survivor:
About a month ago there was a woman standing by the mall entrance
passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written the
flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that she might warn other women.
The previous day, this woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a briefcase walked up to her and said, "I noticed you're changing a
flat tire. Would you like me to take care of it? He put his briefcase in her trunk, shutting it and before he asked her for a ride to his car.
She told him that she'd be happy to drive him around to his car, but she
just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. She said she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her car and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be.
She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard what had happened,
the guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left.
They opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police station.
The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return it to the man). What they found was rope, duct tape, and knives. When the police checked her "flat" tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply been let out. It was obvious what the man's intention was, and obvious that he had carefully
thought it out in advance. The woman was blessed to have escaped harm.
How much worse it could have been!!!
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS STORY IS TRUE, BUT IT DOES HAVE SOME GOOD POINTS.
We all should be careful. It is not unlikely that someone will want to take something that belongs to you. Let's be sure it is not your life.
I will try to write about a more cheerful subject next time
