Beware - distraction theft!
Oct 13th 2010, 10:56 am
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Beware - distraction theft!
Mrs P was doing some shopping in the Lulu's store at Al Wahda mall this afternoon. She had a trolley and had hung her handbag over the clip under the handle at the back.
When she stopped by the yogurt chiller section, a woman dressed in a black sack, wearing a black headscarf but her face visible, bumped into my wife on her side which was furthest from the trolley. My wife thought this strange, since the place wasn't busy. She then noticed that her handbag was missing. The woman was of Arabic appearance and my wife didn't even see the person who took the bag.
The bag fortunately didn't contain much of value other than a pre-paid travel money card with not much money loaded on it, her Nigerian drivers license and her's and our daughter's medical insurance cards, plus around 300 Dhms cash.
After reporting the incident to the store security, the security manager took her back to the area where the bag was stolen and they found it abandoned at the end of an aisle close by.
Fortunately, all that was taken was the cash and nothing else.
Just be aware folks, that in this land of "zero crime", that there are exceptions to the rule
When she stopped by the yogurt chiller section, a woman dressed in a black sack, wearing a black headscarf but her face visible, bumped into my wife on her side which was furthest from the trolley. My wife thought this strange, since the place wasn't busy. She then noticed that her handbag was missing. The woman was of Arabic appearance and my wife didn't even see the person who took the bag.
The bag fortunately didn't contain much of value other than a pre-paid travel money card with not much money loaded on it, her Nigerian drivers license and her's and our daughter's medical insurance cards, plus around 300 Dhms cash.
After reporting the incident to the store security, the security manager took her back to the area where the bag was stolen and they found it abandoned at the end of an aisle close by.
Fortunately, all that was taken was the cash and nothing else.
Just be aware folks, that in this land of "zero crime", that there are exceptions to the rule
Oct 13th 2010, 11:57 am
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Re: Beware - distraction theft!
Bastards will steal anything nowadays...but how did they steal a distraction?
Seriously; shitty thing to happen, hope she is not too shaken up by it.
Seriously; shitty thing to happen, hope she is not too shaken up by it.
Oct 13th 2010, 12:20 pm
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Re: Beware - distraction theft!
Mrs P was doing some shopping in the Lulu's store at Al Wahda mall this afternoon. She had a trolley and had hung her handbag over the clip under the handle at the back.
When she stopped by the yogurt chiller section, a woman dressed in a black sack, wearing a black headscarf but her face visible, bumped into my wife on her side which was furthest from the trolley. My wife thought this strange, since the place wasn't busy. She then noticed that her handbag was missing. The woman was of Arabic appearance and my wife didn't even see the person who took the bag.
The bag fortunately didn't contain much of value other than a pre-paid travel money card with not much money loaded on it, her Nigerian drivers license and her's and our daughter's medical insurance cards, plus around 300 Dhms cash.
After reporting the incident to the store security, the security manager took her back to the area where the bag was stolen and they found it abandoned at the end of an aisle close by.
Fortunately, all that was taken was the cash and nothing else.
Just be aware folks, that in this land of "zero crime", that there are exceptions to the rule
When she stopped by the yogurt chiller section, a woman dressed in a black sack, wearing a black headscarf but her face visible, bumped into my wife on her side which was furthest from the trolley. My wife thought this strange, since the place wasn't busy. She then noticed that her handbag was missing. The woman was of Arabic appearance and my wife didn't even see the person who took the bag.
The bag fortunately didn't contain much of value other than a pre-paid travel money card with not much money loaded on it, her Nigerian drivers license and her's and our daughter's medical insurance cards, plus around 300 Dhms cash.
After reporting the incident to the store security, the security manager took her back to the area where the bag was stolen and they found it abandoned at the end of an aisle close by.
Fortunately, all that was taken was the cash and nothing else.
Just be aware folks, that in this land of "zero crime", that there are exceptions to the rule
Oct 13th 2010, 12:55 pm
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Re: Beware - distraction theft!
Oct 13th 2010, 1:00 pm
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Re: Beware - distraction theft!
i remember when the newspaper would report such crimes, it was "washing stolen from washing line in Sharjah" years ago.
