Email sent to me ....

Beware, Lock your car doors!

Yesterday, I was robbed at a traffic light!

A young woman proposes to wash your car windows while you wait at the red light while another one takes advantage of the distraction to open the back door and steal everything she can grab.
Be warned, they are very well organized!!!

Don't leave your doors or windows open if you drive up to a red light!

If your windows get washed.. . .Don't look at them, they try to divert your attention.

Please inform your friends of this new scam.
They have got me 10 times already - today.
Also got me 4 times yesterday...four times the day before that and six times Sunday.



Saturday I couldn't find the corner they were working.

How come this has been posted twice?

I've experienced this in London on Esuton Road and in Leeds on the edge of Chapeltown.

In both cases it was a group of Eastern Europeans who seemed to virtually threw themselves at the front of the car. I simply edged forward , looked straight ahead, and used the central locking!

I also hit the windwcreen washers and wipers, and as soon as the lights changed hit the horn and scooted off. If you see a junction with some of these dregs and the road conditions allow it, slow down and try to time your arrival so that the lights are changing when you get ther.

Joe

He said he got it in an e-mail, but nowhere does it say where it happened, may not even be sheffield. 10 times in one day!! Sounds like some chain letter to me.

Hi Penguin,

Indeed.....however, it could be a variant of the 'clean your windscreen and make you feel guilty and give some money' ploy that I was on the wrong end of.

Unfortunately I'm such a heartless bugger that it doesn't work on me...:)

Joe

you would think after about the FIRST time this guy would realise LOL

Originally posted by tron
Please inform your friends of this new scam.
They have got me 10 times already - today.
Also got me 4 times yesterday...four times the day before that and six times Sunday.
Saturday I couldn't find the corner they were working.

Today is Tuesday, So by my feeble brain if they got him/her 4 times yesterday (Monday), 4 times the day before that (which would make it Sunday) and 6 times on Sunday as explained above. Whats happend here :suspect: Is there a new day ? Perhaps he/she get done 6 times on Smonday which is the day after Sunday but the day before Monday :heyhey:

Also, he/she couldn't find the corner they were working on Saturday ?? No wonder you get scammed if you go looking for them :help:

I need a drink!

A friend of mine pulled up at traffic lights on corporation st
(near the manchester pub) travelling towards park square round about ,
and 2 guys tried to drag her out of the car to steel it but she put up a fight so one of the men started punching her, luckily another driver helped chase them off

this happened around 3 months ago CID are looking into it ...

Originally posted by mer1002
A friend of mine pulled up at traffic lights on corporation st
(near the manchester pub) travelling towards park square round about ,
and 2 guys tried to drag her out of the car to steel it but she put up a fight so one of the men started punching her, luckily another driver helped chase them off

this happened around 3 months ago CID are looking into it ...

I have heard on the new pug 206's GTI's (maybe lower base models too) that if the door/s are opened with the engine on, then the car will only operate for like 30 secs then the car cuts out unless a pin has been entered.

Originally posted by Deejay
Also, he/she couldn't find the corner they were working on Saturday ?? No wonder you get scammed if you go looking for them
But Saturday would have been before even the first incident, unless like you say the Saturday was the extra day not counted :o

I have never been put in the position Joe, I dont go into the city much in my car, although if I did im sure I would show them what washer screen jets are for :)

Keep your doors locked 24/7.

No matter if you're in or out.

Car or house.

Sad, yes - But this is the 21st Century and trust no stranger.

If you had seen the photos that normally acompany this email then you wouldn't have bothered posting.. think about it?!?

andyb

Originally posted by Yorkie
Keep your doors locked 24/7.

No matter if you're in or out.

Car or house.

Sad, yes - But this is the 21st Century and trust no stranger.
I get your point, but aren't we taught to keep all doors UNLOCKED in case you have an accident and need to evacuate the vehicle and probably unable to unlock it ?

simple get a fire exit door built into ur house, no way to open from the outside and just need to push a bar on the inside:D

Originally posted by andyb
If you had seen the photos that normally acompany this email then you wouldn't have bothered posting.. think about it?!?

andyb

Ahhh....but we didn't see the photos....and similar events have hapened to forum members...so why shouldn't we post?

I think this thread is heading into wider 'car safety' territory tahn the original, possibly 'urban myth' thread.

Joe

I tried to tell you there should be a photo with some boobs on it.

But my post vanished?

Wierd, but you're all muppets for replying to it!:)

Except me!

"But this is the 21st Century and trust no stranger."

..true, and by the same logic you should not trust nor believe the scaremongering crap that gets sent around in hoax/scam/chain emails.

Also, keeping your car doors locked when you're driving is a VERY bad idea.

Originally posted by fyybj
Also, keeping your car doors locked when you're driving is a VERY bad idea.

Why?

Originally posted by fyybj


Keeping your car doors locked when you're driving is a VERY bad idea.


If you get mugged at traffic lights you may change your mind.


Many car doors with side impact damage are impossible to open anyway - even if unlocked.

Simple. If you are in an accident and are knocked unconcious, what happens if the car catches fire?

I was involved in an accident where my old Morris caught fire, no one was hurt but the attending fire brigade recommended not to lock car doors while driving and to keep a pair of sharp scissors handy in case the seatbelt mechanism fails or you cannot undo it.



I'm curious as to how many people have been directly involved in a carjacking in Sheffield? Not people who know a friend of a friend who was carjacked or heard about an incident involving carjacked.

I suppose it comes down to a battle between the paranoia you have in being toasted in your car, or the paranoia you have in being mugged at traffic lights.

Originally posted by fyybj
Simple. If you are in an accident and are knocked unconcious, what happens if the car catches fire?

most incidents where a car catches fire is where ud have to have the door ripped off anyway?

Or just get an expensive car with anti-car jacking doors.

Can not understand how some people have the courage to even leave house in the moring, ffs Whats up with you??!, "Trust no stranger" - what absolute rubbish. Its people who believe this sort of crap who are turning this friendly city into somewhere down south.

Originally posted by fyybj
I suppose it comes down to a battle between the paranoia you have in being toasted in your car,


im just curious to how many people have been "toasted" in there cars

This activity was rife a while ago in Leeds, it entailed a pedestrian crossing controlled by lights, in the nortorious Chapletown area. The button would be pushed to activate the lights, when a vehicle had stopped a person would step in front of the car and the rest of the gang would target the car. the gang had steel poles and if there were valuables to be seen, but the doors locked then the windows would be broken and everything taken, and if you think you would get out to take them to task then beware. There was an elderly gentleman from Manchester way who was visiting Leeds and strayed into this area, he stopped to asked for directions and had his car broken into whilst still in, when he got out to admonish the culprits he was murdered. Be wary in Sheffield it is relativley safe, but there are many places not so

Off topic slightly but still on traffic lights. Is it me or is there becoming fewer and fewer traffic lights in Sheffield that are activated by the presence of a car? I went to work this morning at Dore from Rotherham and nearly every set of traffic lights was bloody RED!! And guess what ... there was no other cars there!! How annoying is this????????????????????

Originally posted by tron
Email sent to me ....

Beware, Lock your car doors!

Yesterday, I was robbed at a traffic light!

A young woman proposes to wash your car windows while you wait at the red light while another one takes advantage of the distraction to open the back door and steal everything she can grab.
Be warned, they are very well organized!!!

Don't leave your doors or windows open if you drive up to a red light!

If your windows get washed.. . .Don't look at them, they try to divert your attention.

Please inform your friends of this new scam.
They have got me 10 times already - today.
Also got me 4 times yesterday...four times the day before that and six times Sunday.



Saturday I couldn't find the corner they were working.

what kind of thicko gets caught out with the same scam 24 times:rolleyes:

Easily dealt with,put your valuables in the Boot,handbags etccarry a panic alarm & give em a blast of 10,000 decibels,that should wake up the thievibg so & so's.

Originally posted by kirky
what kind of thicko gets caught out with the same scam 24 times:rolleyes:


i was wondering about this e-mail

but then saw dodgeball last nihgt, and it cleared everything up for me

Originally posted by J-Blaze
Or just get an expensive car with anti-car jacking doors.

Or like they do in South Africa, install flame throwers at the base of the car door and toast any would be car jacker.