Handbag Theft Scam

Bowling_4_Gold

trisontana wrote: »

Bowling_4_Gold


Just look at these four stories, one of which dates from last December. Do still think that it's not an urban myth?
http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=12730

http://www.britishagents.com/fullStory.php?id=207
http://community.babycentre.co.uk/talk/a2034425/dear_god_what_is_the_world_coming_to
http://www.policespecials.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t84692.html

Unless I am missing something, the first 3 don't hint towards the story being an urban myth so, in terms of the links you have posted, I still believe it to be true.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think I said 'I don't think this is an urban myth', merely saying I thought the story was true because it came from, imo, a 'reliable' source.

whitegoods_engineer

trisontana wrote: »

Bowling_4_Gold


Just look at these four stories, one of which dates from last December. Do still think that it's not an urban myth?

Trisnontana, despite overwhelming detailed evidence of variations on this urban myth story, Bowling_4_gold will simply not accept that it is just rubbish.

How much more evidence does he need???

trisontana

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

Unless I am missing something, the first 3 don't hint towards the story being an urban myth so, in terms of the links you have posted, I still believe it to be true.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think I said 'I don't think this is an urban myth', merely saying I thought the story was true because it came from, imo, a 'reliable' source.

So do you think that those four stories are all about what happened to that same woman, even that one that happened back in December? She must be very famous for all those people to write about her!

sarahg1969

Ah, but Bowling4Gold is in the "industry". Maybe it is he who is going round installing hooks on the outside of toilet doors to catch out unwary shoppers, dyeing children's hair and sneaking them out of M&S, and pretending to be little old lady lost in a multi-storey car park? Hmm? You never know.

OP, has your sister's neighbour's colleague's friend gone to the press and/or police with this story? Do you think they will be publishing a warning in the near future?

yorksrabbit

Eeeh, ecky thump! C'mon bowling4gold, pack it in, you came on offering well-intentioned advice and all credit to you for doing so, but it's getting silly now because. . .

. . . you're right, your first post didn't say the hook was on't other side of the blasted toilet door, merely that it was outside the cubicle (presumably, a coat hook then, elsewhere in the loo.)

Doesn't that strike you as, well, amazing that anyone would be so raving bonkers as to leave a handbag on a hook in a public washroom??

And doesn't it strike you that, er, well yes, that person HAS to be bonkers. . .

Otherwise this latest version of this idiotic myth simply won't work.

Why?

Because when it started doing the rounds, the hook was indeed inside the cubicle. . . until many people pointed out that the distinctive behaviour of some extraordinarily long-armed person hopping from one locked cubicle to another, reaching blindly over the top in hope of finding something on an interior hook would have been witnessed by every other user of the loo.

That didn't please the myth purveyors, so to restore to the myth the credibility it had by now lost, the hook had to be moved "outside", thus disposing of the earlier objection.

Of course, this meant that the victim was now as daft as a brush --but better that than the prospect of some door-leaping long-armed freak pulling off invisible thefts.

Really, this tale gets dafter by the minute. Stand by for a new amendment to turn up soon: a "member of staff" is outside the ladies' restroom offering to look after hand bags, and someone's uncle's cousin's boss's secretary says, ah, thanks for the great customer service. . .

And we all know what happens next.;)

Valli

and the reason there is a hook is, as we all know

IF YOU PUT YOUR BAG ON THE FLOOR IT WILL BE WHIPPED OUT UNDER THE DOOR WHILE YOUR GUARD IS (actually when your knickers are) DOWN.

so now there's a hook.

Many years ago Bet Lynch (Coronation Street barmaid) had her bag nicked. Then she got a phonecall to go and collect her bag as it had been found and Len Fairclough (supping a pint in the Rover's Return where Bet worked) asked where Bet was and was told she was collecting her found bag so he legged it round to Bet's flat where he (Len) caught the thief who was breaking into her (Bet's) flat because he (the thief) knew she (Bet) wasn't there because she was collecting her stolen bag but he (Len) knew it was a scam and the internet was still a twinkle in someone's eye...

And I must be right because I can name names. Not someone's brother/colleague/mate but Bet Lynch and Len Fairclough!

bubblegumcola

We all know handbags could be whipped off you if you leave them on the floor while you are sitting on the loo. Why the hell would you hang it up outside the cubicle for anyone to take?! Total nut. You can put it on the floor and have one handle with your foot in it! The only down side is you are putting it on the floor and the floor might be a bit yuk. Still I'd rather have my handbag abit yuk than nicked off me.

bubblegumcola

Actually on a similar point it amazes me how many silly people do their shopping in supermarkets and leave their handbags on the wee child seat of the trolley and wander off to get their tatties or carrots...I'd never do that.

Also I did work in a shop where someone put their bag on the floor to try on shoes and a shoplifter was in and nicked the girls bag. The manager had to go through all the CCTV footage. It only takes seconds for you to be distracted and they are off with it.

bubblegumcola

yorksrabbit wrote: »

My wife left her handbag containing her satnav on the outside hook of a door to a public toilet and when she got home she discovered our house had been repossessed by a man named John Lewis.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

JoolzS

bubblegumcola wrote: »

Actually on a similar point it amazes me how many silly people do their shopping in supermarkets and leave their handbags on the wee child seat of the trolley and wander off to get their tatties or carrots...

I do that on occasion - but there is never anything of value in my handbag. I sometimes thing it would be really funny if it was stolen because it's a handbag that cost me £2.00 from a charity shop containing some tissues and a few "bag for life" shopping bags, and maybe a pen and/or a bottle of water

My money and credit cards are either in my pockets or in a purse held in my hand.

Julie