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Mall Warning
To the men : warn your
loved ones!
To the women : remember
this!
About a month ago there
was a woman standing by the Mega Mall entrance passing out flyers to
all the women going in. The woman had written the flyer herself to
tell about an experience she had, so that she might warn other
women.
The previous day, this
woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and discovered that
she had a flat. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to
change the flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a
briefcase walked up to her and said, "I notice you are changing a
flat tire. Would you like me to take care of it for you?" The woman
was grateful for his offer and accepted his help. They chatted
amiably while the man changed the flat, and then put the flat tire
and the jack in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off.
The woman thanked him
profusely, and as she was about to get in her car, when the man told
her that he left his car around on the other side of the mall, and
asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car.
She was a little
surprised and asked him why his car was on other side.
He explained that he had
seen an old friend in the mall that he hadn't seen for some time and
they had a bite to eat and visited for a while; he got turned around
in the mall and left through the wrong exit, and now he was running
late and his car was clear around on the other side of the mall.
The woman hated to tell
him "no" because he had just rescued her from having to change her
flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy.
Then she remembered
seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk before shutting it and
before he asked her for a ride to his car.
She told him that she'd
be happy to drive him to his car, but she just remembered one last
thing she needed to buy. She said she would only be few minutes; he
could sit down in her car and wait for her; she would be as quick as
she could be.
She hurried into the
mall, and told a security guard what had happened; the guard came
out to her car with her, but the man had left.
They opened the trunk,
took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police
station. The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they
could return it to the man). What they found was rope, duct tape and
knives.
When the police checked
her "flat" tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply
been let out. It was obvious what the man's motive was, and obvious
that he had carefully thought it out in advance.
The woman was blessed to
have escaped harm. How much worse it would have been had she waited
in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had a baby
strapped into a car seat.
Or if she'd gone against
her judgment and given him a lift. |
