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Another attempted car jacking. Lock your doors!!

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    #32
    ching9000
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭ching9000


    Just to back up what Wertz has said...

    My mum was car jacked in Dundalk about a year and a half ago. It was a Sunday afternoon in a busy shopping centre car park on a Sunday.

    One guy jumped in the passenger seat and produced a blade and then another opened the driver's door and dragged her out. She is over 70, about 5'6'' and weighs about 8 stone...brave men!

    So car-jacking DOES happen and definitely is not anecdotal.


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    #33
    lightening
    Registered Users Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    Wertz wrote: »
    a detective later attending said that he'd been to cases locally where the threat of the kettle was used to obtain keys

    Deffo an urban myth, gardai trying to impress with their scary stories! I can't see the thief waiting for the kettle to boil amont an array of knifes, scissors, etc...

    Good points however, time to lock those car doors...
    ching9000 wrote: »
    So car-jacking DOES happen and definitely is not anecdotal.

    You just told me an anecdote!! Ah, kidding, I hope your mum recovered.


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    #34
    NewApproach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    Surely if the door is locked they could just break open the window


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    #35
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    NewApproach wrote: »
    Surely if the door is locked they could just break open the window

    Have you ever tried pulling someone out a car window? Or getting in to the drivers' seat whilst the driver is still in it?
    This isn't the dukes of hazard...

    Besides anyone that can drive is going to floor it the minute someone breaks the window...if a door is opened, a hand (or weapon) comes in, it's usually too late and most people would have trouble driving off with someone hanging out the side of the open door, because it's not something they're used to doing or because they may fear injuring the assailant (wouldn't bother me, but that's hw some people think)

    As for urban myth from the detective lightening? Perhaps, but this woman said they knew the detective personally...given her age, I doubt he was some McBain fresh from Templemore...but whatever. BTW who said anyone needed to boil the kettle? Hell in a dark bedroom, they probably just need to say they've a kettle, or else let on it's boiling...personally I wouldn't call that bluff unles I had a Veyron in the front driveway...


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