ATTEMPTED CAR JACKING

[menor95]

Hi all. yesterday evening when I was coming back from a friend and I found my self at the scene of an attempted car jacking that took place seconds before I arrived. The victims were punched and injured and thrown from the car. The gentleman was punched in the face and his wife was in shocked and clearly very distressed by the whole incident.
This happened in my local area woodford green in north east London. The car was 2013 mercedes E350cdi convertible. Luckily the car was not stolen because they could not drive off for some reason.

I believe this is something that could be on the increase.

SO THIS GOES OUT TO ALL CAR OWNERS AND ESPECIALLY OWNERS OF NEWER CARS: KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED!!!

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/your_l ... r_jackers/


Pascal

[Happy82]

I thought most newer cars auto locked anyway?

[ooo000ooo]

I had a guy walk Into the middle of the road and point a gun at me in an attempted car jacking. That'll give your heart a work out.

[briang9]

Happy82 said:

I thought most newer cars auto locked anyway?

think its a user defined option/setting on most cars

[fjord]

ooo000ooo said:

I had a guy walk Into the middle of the road and point a gun at me in an attempted car jacking. That'll give your heart a work out.

Story. Now.

I hope you ran him over.

[silverfoxcc]

Fjord,
I too was hoping for the rejoiner,

not as big as the fright i gave him when i gunned the car ( no pun intended) at him

See the gunman jump, jump gunman jump

[backwoodsman]

ooo000ooo said:

I had a guy walk Into the middle of the road and point a gun at me in an attempted car jacking. That'll give your heart a work out.

What country were you in?

[gtidriver]

Im thinking jbourg....

[Mashedpotatoes]

gtidriver said:

Im thinking jbourg....

Do you mean jobourg ?

[TheEnd]

Mashedpotatoes said:

gtidriver said:

Im thinking jbourg....

Do you mean jobourg ?

Do you mean joburg ?

[Mashedpotatoes]

TheEnd said:

Mashedpotatoes said:

gtidriver said:

Im thinking jbourg....

Do you mean jobourg ?

Do you mean joburg ?

Oops

[750turbo]

fjord said:

ooo000ooo said:

I had a guy walk Into the middle of the road and point a gun at me in an attempted car jacking. That'll give your heart a work out.

Story. Now.

I hope you ran him over.

Come on....!

[HannsG]

I have had a complete random hellbent on trying to enter my car.

Thank god for auto lock. Its the first thing I get programmed on any car I own.

[SVX]

Mashedpotatoes said:

Oops

Well quite - there's no burger like a Jo'burger, eh boet?

[andy118run]

menor95 said:

Hi all. yesterday evening when I was coming back from a friend and I found my self at the scene of an attempted car jacking that took place seconds before I arrived. The victims were punched and injured and thrown from the car. The gentleman was punched in the face and his wife was in shocked and clearly very distressed by the whole incident.
This happened in my local area woodford green in north east London. The car was 2013 mercedes E350cdi convertible. Luckily the car was not stolen because they could not drive off for some reason.

I believe this is something that could be on the increase.

SO THIS GOES OUT TO ALL CAR OWNERS AND ESPECIALLY OWNERS OF NEWER CARS: KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED!!!

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/your_l ... r_jackers/


Pascal

Probably your fear of 'car-jacking' has just increased, having witnessed it first hand. I'm not sure there's any actual evidence this type of crime is on the increase. I suspect most crims would rather break into your house and pinch your keys rather than engage in conflict like this. But that's just my opinion, no particular evidence to support.

[jimbop1]

I can just picture what they looked like but I'm not going to say

[nammynake]

No doubt this kind of situation would be very distressing but these are surely very very isolated incidents. I'm not about to start living in fear and using the auto-lock feature 'just in case'.

If you're going down that route you may as well go all the way and have one of those flamethrowers installed.

[hedgefinder]

they wuz forced into it init bruv , cos of not enough benefits init...

[V8Ford]

Muntu said:

Some pedantry related to the use (or lack thereof) of compound words:


Car jack:



Carjack:

Thank god you cleared that up. I thought the OP had stumbled across a poor couple having their car elevated half a foot for maintenance and/or repair purposes.

[Muntu]

V8Ford said:

Muntu said:

Some pedantry related to the use (or lack thereof) of compound words:


Car jack:



Carjack:

Thank god you cleared that up. I thought the OP had stumbled across a poor couple having their car elevated half a foot for maintenance and/or repair purposes.