sophia

This has just been sent to me by an Aussie girlfriend. I guess its just common sense to most people to lock their car doors (I do, but then I grew up in Leeds!! )....but thought you might like to know anyway.

Last night approx 10.15pm, Tracey (my daughter) was travelling down
Welshpool Road, when she heard a bit of a bang at the back of her car. She
didn't think too much of it, thinking that it was her toolbox rolling
around in the boot. She realised that it was a car just to the side and
behind and her which had opened it's passenger door and hit her on the
back bumper. The car sped up and got in front of her, so she took the rego
number. When she pulled up at the next set of lights, she was beside the
car which had hit her which had about 4 or 5 Aboriginals in it, and an
Aboriginal lady got out of the passenger door and walked to Tracey's car
-Tracey immediately pressed the emergency door lock button and wound her
window down a fraction. The Aboriginal Lady (approx 20 yrs old) asked
Tracey "Did we just hit your car?". Tracey replied sarcastically, "Like,
Yeah", and then wound up her window. The Aboriginal lady walked around to
the passenger side and tried to get into Tracey's car (luckily Tracey had
locked the door.) There were no other cars around and luckily the traffic
lights had turned green so Tracey took off. Tracey turned into Leach H'Way
and rang me at home and told me what had happened. (She is house minding
in Mt Hawthorn, but she didn't want to go there in case they followed her).
When she got to my house she was a bit of a wreck and I suggested that she
report the 'incident' to the police on the 131 444 number. She wasn't
going to , but I told her it could be important. The police officer told
Tracey that she did the correct thing, and her instinct to lock the doors
was correct. It is a new ploy to get people out of their cars to assess
damage and probably steal bags, phones or even the car. Tracey was very
lucky, but please pass this on to other women who may drive alone at night
and may be conned into letting them into the car or talking them into
getting out of the car!


love sophia xxx

louise4

Thank god your daughter is ok.
what will they think of next. comes to something when they themselves will risk injury through a crash just to get to someone else's belongings.

louise

sophia

hiya louise

not my daughter, but a friend of a friends...scary stuff indeed!! :scared:

love sophia xx

bridiej

I think this is an urban myth.....

Hutch

Might be an urban myth round your way mate, but it's was a fairly standard ploy when I was living in London.

sophia

Oh alright then, if you say so!!

erm no I don't think it is!

I'm pretty wise to the urban myth things...and I'm pretty sure my mate's daughter wouldn't agree with you!

love sophia xx

PommieLeague

I think you are too! I take it you have never been thru a rough area of any city? Dope!

bridiej

Whatever!

sophia

Wow what's your problem???!! Frightened that perth isn't a wonderful utopia??

bridiej

No, not at all I was just trying to point out that all these stories that tend to come from a friend of a friend of a friend are urban myths.




And my "whatever" coment was directed at the person who called me a dope - are we not allowed to question things anymore?

FFS!

PommieLeague

Many come here thinking it is some utopia with their yachts, 4wd, disposable incomes etc and think its hony dorry, then they run out of cash because they realize 12 months on that they should have looked for work! Seen it all before, nobody learns.

JackTheLad

When you say a friend of a friend. Do you know the friend, and can they name the friend it happened too?

Too many urban myths start with, "this happened to a friend of a friend".

Having said that, I don't suppose it matters, its pretty good advice to lock the doors, and don't let them in, no matter what they say.

JTL

bridiej

Just because I question the validity of a story suddenly makes me a rose tinted glasses person?

If you bother to read any of my other posts on this site you'll see that my expectations of live in Australia are realistic and we are certainly not the sort of idiots that would want a 4WD, yacht or living the life of Reilly whilst eating into our savings.

I dont know why you've decided to have a go at me, just because I question something.

The way the story was written is very similar to all these warnings etc. that get posted on boards / emailed whatever and usually turn out to be a complete phallacy.

jad n rich

Women any age should have their doors locked day or night, most capital cities here have had women disappear never to be found, usually driving alone at night.

NickyC

I think you're right.

Same story posted on another forum

http://www.lambie.org/wordpress/inde...ment/#comments

They had their suspicions, too!