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Notice on car (not a joke)



Just last weekend on Friday night we parked in a public


parking area. As we drove away I noticed a sticker on the


rear window of the car. When I took it off after I got home,


it was a receipt for petrol. Luckily my friend told me not to


stop as it could be someone waiting for me to get out of the


car. Then we received this email yesterday:


'WARNING FROM POLICE


BEWARE OF PAPER ON THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE--NEW WAY TO


DO CAR JACKINGS (NOT A JOKE)'


... You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. You


start the engine and shift into Reverse.


When you look into the rearview mirror to back out of your


parking space, you notice a piece of paper stuck to the middle


of the rear window. So, you shift into 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 carjackers appear out


of nowhere, jump into your car and take off. They practically


mow you down as they speed off in your car.


And guess what, ladies? I bet your purse is still in the car.


So now the carjacker has your car, your home address, your


money, and your keys. Your home and your whole identity are


now compromised!


BEWARE OF THIS NEW SCHEME THAT IS NOW BEING USED.


If you see a piece of paper stuck to your back window, just


drive away. Remove the paper later. And be thankful that you


read this e-mail. I hope you will forward this to friends and


family, especially to women. A purse contains all kinds of


personal information and identification documents, and you


certainly do NOT want this to fall into the wrong hands.



I thought this message was worthy of a viewing on the forum, it dropped into my emails earlier today.

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Well done Steve - I'll tell my wife to look out for this scam - even if it has never happened before, she is surely going to be the first to fall foul of it.


In fact now you have advertised this great carjacking idea, I'm sure it won't be long before you can say - "hey I told you so".

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Yeah I heard of another version of this, it's called the "Simian jack scam"

The "jackers" stick a 650lb gorilla on your rear window, (it plays dead so as not to give it's self away)

When you get in your car and shift into reverse you see the gorilla in your rear view mirror

Sh*t you say and go to get out to remove the darn thing.....

Now this is where the difference is in the "Jack"

The "sleeping" gorilla, all 650lb of him wakes up.......oh yeah and he's pis**d off

he rips you to pieces at this point limb by limb and sucks the eyes out of your skull

Then to top it all a trained baboon jumps into your car and drives round in circles doing "doughnuts" as the gorilla

searches the pockets of your clothes (you are by now a lifeless corpse)finding your cash and credit cards

Then your very drunk girlfriend just about comes to & looking at the baboon (she has a hand over one eye to focus) now in the driving seat and wearing your GT driving gloves ,yellow night shades and a red Ferrari base ball cap (free with 10lts of Texaco oil) says...

"Oh baby you look soooo hot....did you shave tonight.....you gorgeous manhunk.."

Her head slumps down into the baboons lap and .......(well you can guess the rest)

Put it this way , the baboon is grinning from ear to ear as he drives of with your car your cash & your chick

The gorilla who has previously stolen a pizza hut "ped" and makes good his escape on that.


BEWARE OF THIS SCAM



W**F

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SteveT - sorry, I wasn't trying to tick you off, I was just more surprised you fell for it


Everything about the construction and wording of it reeks of urban myth. The road to hell is paved with good intentions etc etc. Wasn't Chicken Licken a parable?


Anyway now that more people know about snopes, here's hoping a few more urban myths get debunked

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