Car Jacking / Mugging

Jnelhams

I was told today of the a nasty practise happening in some areas of the Country, it goes like this....


You get into your Car, and go to drive off but as your look out the rear window you see a large bit of paper/plastic has been put on the back window, preventing you from seeing out. You nip out of the car to remove the object, and bang the robbers appear from nowhere and steal the Car/Mug you. So be warned, it seems a variation on the somebody laying on the road trick.

Freddie_Snowbits

Does not happen to me, I always reverse in!

Rex_Mundi

Another false alert here otherwise known as an urban myth. This one has been around a couple of years................

Read this.

Charis

This one has been doing the rounds for some time:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/carjack.asp

Charis

Snap! Great minds think alike. Any significance in your tag 'Rex Mundi'? It was in a book I was reading last week.

tomstickland

There's so many things that make this urban myth stupid.
-if the car was parked nose first then you'd normally walk up from behind and see the note
-if you reversed in it wouldn't matter
-you would probably use the mirrors
-where do these muggers suddenly appear from and how do they do it silently?

I suggested removing the rear screen from all cars to solve this problem.

Rex_Mundi

Charis wrote:

Snap! Great minds think alike. Any significance in your tag 'Rex Mundi'? It was in a book I was reading last week.

Wasn't 'Armageddon: The Musical' by any chance??? (My favourite book).

Charis

Rex_Mundi wrote:

Wasn't 'Armageddon the Musical' by any chance??? (My favourite book).

No, it was 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the book upon whose findings the Da Vinci Code is supposed to have been based. Rex Mundi was code for the king of this world, aka the Prince of Darkness.:eek:

Rex_Mundi

Charis wrote:

Rex Mundi was code for the king of this world

It's not code at all. It's Latin.

Charis

'Rex Mundi' was hidden in code in various manuscripts and taken to represent an evil deity, the identity of whom is liked with various mythical beings, including Adonis.

ManAtHome

And an anagram of Rude Minx (amongst others) http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=rex+mundi