Post by kas on Jan 8, 2011 8:32:51 GMT -5
www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/handbag.asp
This is just a snippet of the email. Go to the link for all the information:
This is just a snippet of the email. Go to the link for all the information:
[Collected via e-mail, November 2008]
I heard this story from my CEO today. Her sister went shopping in John Lewis. She visited the ladies room and hung her handbag on the back of the toilet door. As she carried on about her business, a hand suddenly appeared over the top of the stall and grabbed her bag clean off the hook!!!
As if this wasn’t bad enough, she reported the incident to the manager of the store. A couple of days later she took a call to say her bag had been found, without her purse. She arranged a time to go and meet the manager to collect her things.
On arriving at John Lewis at the agreed time, the manager was not expecting her — nothing had been found, no one had called.
When the lady got home, her house had been burgled, with no sign of forced entry, they had used her Driving License for the address and her keys to let themselves in!!!!!!
I promise this is real — it isn’t just a scaremongering story, I was so shocked at how complex bag snatching crime has become.
Please be extra vigilant ladies, Christmas is a bad time for this sort of thing anyway, but with the credit crunch there are a lot of desperate criminals out there!!
I heard this story from my CEO today. Her sister went shopping in John Lewis. She visited the ladies room and hung her handbag on the back of the toilet door. As she carried on about her business, a hand suddenly appeared over the top of the stall and grabbed her bag clean off the hook!!!
As if this wasn’t bad enough, she reported the incident to the manager of the store. A couple of days later she took a call to say her bag had been found, without her purse. She arranged a time to go and meet the manager to collect her things.
On arriving at John Lewis at the agreed time, the manager was not expecting her — nothing had been found, no one had called.
When the lady got home, her house had been burgled, with no sign of forced entry, they had used her Driving License for the address and her keys to let themselves in!!!!!!
I promise this is real — it isn’t just a scaremongering story, I was so shocked at how complex bag snatching crime has become.
Please be extra vigilant ladies, Christmas is a bad time for this sort of thing anyway, but with the credit crunch there are a lot of desperate criminals out there!!