Below is a copy of an e-mail passed on to me earlier.
for all the women in your families
> Subject: FW: Warwickshire Police Community Safety Liaison Warwick
> District Warning
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> This is a real incident, pass it on to others,please pass it on.
> About a month ago a woman was standing by the entrance to a shopping
> centre in Nottingham, passing out flyers to all the women going in.
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> The woman had written the flyer herself to tell about an experience she
> had so that she might warn other women
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> The previous day, this woman had finished shopping and went out to her car
> and discovered that she had a flat tyre. She got the jack out of the boot
> and began to change the flat. A nice man dressed in a business suit and
> carrying a briefcase walked up to her and said, "I noticed you're changing
> a flat tyre, would you like me to take care of it for you?" the woman was
> grateful for his offer and accepted his help.
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> They chatted amicably while the man changed the tyre, and then put the
> flat and jack in the boot, shut it and dusted off his hands. The woman
> thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car the mn told
> her he had left his car around the other side of the shopping centre and
> asked if she would mind giving him lift to his car. She was a little
> surprised and asked why his car was the other side. He explained that he
> had seen an old friend in the centre that he hadn't seen for some time and
> they'd had a bite to eat and a look around the shops for a while. He got
> turned round in the shopping centre and came out the wrong exit and now he
> was running late and his car was round the other side of the centre.
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> The woman hated to tell him no because he had just rescued her from having
> to change the wheel all by herself, but she felt uneasy, then she
> remembers seeing the man put his briefcase in her boot before shutting it
> and before he asked her for a ride to his car.
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> So she made an excuse and said but she had remembered just one last thing
> she needed to buy. She said she would only be a few minutes, he could sit
> down in her car and wait for her, and she would be as quick as she could
> be. She hurried into the shopping centre and told a security guard what
> had happened, the guard came out to the car with her, but the man had
> left, she unlocked the boot, took his locked briefcase to the police
> station.
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> The police opened it {ostensibly to look for ID so that they could return
> it to the man}, what they found was Rope, Duct tape and Knives, when the
> police checked the tyre, there was nothing wrong with it, the air had
> simply been let out. Its obvious what the mans intentions were and had
> carefully thought them out in advance. The woman was blessed to have
> escaped harm. How much worse could it have been if she had children with
> her and got them to wait in the car or had a baby in a car seat? This
> woman told this experience on the flyer she was passing out so that other
> women could be warned.
>
> PLEASE forward this on, it may save a life, he could be in any shopping
> centre. John Farren PC 769,
>
> Warwickshire Police Community Safety Liaison Warwick District.
> Tel: 01926 415000 Ext: 4395
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I've seen the same one for the Trafford Centre.
It's spam
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It makes you think though. I know I'd probably do the girly thing and ring my other half or the RAC rather than have a stranger help me :-)
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Sounds like a classic urban myth to me.
www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/hairyarm.htm
Personally I'd just pump the tyre up or claim there was something wrong with the spare and call the AA instead if I were that suspicious.
teabelly
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E-mails like this are always hoaxes. Be suspicious of anything that cites supposedly authoritative sources and asks that you forward it to others.
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Thinking about it, it's quite possible that it did come from the police. They have been known to be duped by this sort of hoax too!
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There is nothing on Warwicks Police Web Site about this in warning messages to the public over the past 3 months.
Anybody local to that telephone number than can make a quick call?.
Latest scam I have from an RAFP friend in Kent is youths Dog snatching and trying to extract 50 quid from the owner to return.
DVD
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Confirmation that it was a hoax:
www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34064.html
The article contains a link to a statement from Warwickshire Police issued yesterday.
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I first saw this some eight years ago.
Surly everybody has seen it by now!
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