My Mom sent this email to me...


Sunday afternoon around 5 PM I headed into the Target in Philadelphia ,
Pa. where crime is VERY RARE and mostly it Is with bikes being stolen!!

It was still light outside and I parked fairly close to the entrance.

As I got out of my car and began walking towards Target, an older lady
shouted to me from the passenger seat Of a car about 30 feet away from
me.

"Ma'am you must help me, help me please, help me Ma'am!"

I looked at her in the eyes and started to walk towards her when all of
a sudden I remembered an email my Mom had sent me a week or two ago about
rapists and abductions using 2 elderly people to lure women in.

I paused, memorized the license plate and immediately headed into Target
to get a manager to come help this lady, just in case something was up.

While the woman manager headed out there, I kept a close watch just
because I was curious what was wrong with the lady and wanted to be sure nothing
happened.

As the Target lady walked up towards the car and got very close to the
old woman in order to help her, the back door of the car flies open and a
large man with stocking cap on, jumps out and sticks a gun to the lady's
stomach as he shoves her into the back of the car.

I yelled out "call 911" several times and just as I was saying that, a
policeman who happened to be on the other side of the parking lot! And
who, luckily had seen the entire thing happen, raced over to the car.

He was able to stop the car and arrest the male as well as the old lady,
who was involved in the scheme.

By God's grace everyone was all right, including myself, although I
think we were both shaken up.

Like many of you, I would not in a million years have left an elderly
person who was yelling for help if it weren't for the e-mail I had read last
week.
So, I wanted to pass this along so you all can be aware and remember
that you really can't trust anyone these days.

You just never know when something like this could happen.

I would have never dreamed it to happen to me especially on a Sunday
afternoon at a Target in a safe area!

It definitely was not a coincidence that my Mom sent that Email just a
few days before this all happened.

Please, be careful and always be aware of your surroundings.

Just because you individually don't go over to help someone doesn't mean
you have to leave them in trouble, but don't go ALONE, you really don't know
what might be going on.


This is true - and they also use children to lure the victim.

Man, this has BS written all over it. No disrespect intended, but I'm calling my shot before I even hit Snopes.

This was just on an episode of Sons of Anarchy. A woman ran up to "Gemma's" car screaming how her baby was choking. She went to check/help and got clocked in the head and kidnapped...

ultimately the moral here is no matter how good your intentions, WATCH YOUR BACK!!

Yeah, sorry - false.

http://www.snopes.com/cri...heaton.asp

Moral of the story: If you see an old person screaming for help, just yell, "F--- off, rapist!" and run away!

Efan said:

I wish I had Depends right now!!!!!

RodeoSchro said:

I did'nt think to check. Hopefully this doesn't give any real rapists ideas.

Sounds like another bullshit urban legend to me. A story like this, if it were real, would've appeared on the news somewhere, not as part of an email forward.

Efan said:

....or, send another female in first, if she gets raped, phew, close call!

What about this? got this via email...


PLEASE WARN YOUR CHILDREN, WIFE, SIGNIFICANT OTHER AND
ANY FEMALE FRIEND OR FRIENDS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT THIS EMAIL.



A New Kind of Rape...( LADIES BE WARNED) This is a true story.
PLEASE do not delete this before you read it!!!!!

Who know's, what will they come up with next?

Ladies be careful and don't get paranoiac but get smart and recognized dangers in the street and that could came from innocent children's faces too!


The woman left the office after working hours and saw a little child crying on the road. Feeling pity for the child, she went to ask what happened. The child said, 'I am lost. Can you take me home please?' Then the child gave her a slip of paper and tells the woman where the address is. The woman, being an average kind person who didn't suspect anything took
the child there. And there when they arrived at the child's home, the kind hearted woman pressed the door bell and she was electrocuted as the bell was wired with high voltage, and fainted.

The next day when she woke up, she found herself in an empty house up in the hills, naked. Condoms were all thrown around with semen all over her and flowing from her body. There were at least about 20 condoms! She has not even seen her assailants. That's why nowadays crimes are targeted on kind people like her. Next time if the same situation occurs, never bring the child to the intended place. If the child insists, then bring the child to the police station.

Lost children are best to sent to police stations. Please send this to all your female friends/colleagues, and your friends with girlfriends and friends with wives. It is better to receive this a thousand times than be a victim once!

DesireeNevermind said:

What is it with rapists these days, getting all fancy with their attacks? What's wrong with good old-fashioned rape? I blame television.

I would advise anyone in this position to take the child to the nearest Target and get the female manager to check it out.

http://www.snopes.com/cri...ldlure.asp

DesireeNevermind said:

Never believe anything you get forwarded in an email. Chances are it's out and out bullshit, and at best it's only a half truth. If something like this were occurring it'd be reported by a reliable news source, not by friend of a friend of a friend word of mouth.

Efan said:

DesireeNevermind said:

I'm sorry, but

Whyyyyy do people believe everything that crosses their inbox??

PLEASE check these two links before you repost this stuff:

Click me!

Click me too!

I love a good urban legend involving semen....the ol' Rod Stewart stomach pump one is one of my all time faves and a good go to story for church socials and bar mitzvahs...
[Edited 9/25/09 17:18pm]

mcmeekle said:

That's exactly what I was thinking!

OMG - I bet there's a rapist in that vehicle. Let me send another woman over there.

meow85 said:

I remember hearing this one 20 years ago and then it was the Chadstone carpark and there was an axe in the back seat!

Oh, and in the evening, dont flash your headlights if you see a car with its lights off. It's a gang initiation and they will shoot at you.

xlr8r said:

Dammit man, you're takin' ALL the fun out of my initiations...

How about we never leave our homes? It cuts down the risk of being raped or murdered.

And if you do go out in public, don't smell anyone's perfume. It probably has chloroform in it and you'll pass out instantly and when you come to you'll have nothing to show for it but a stolen purse and a sore asshole.

EmeraldSkies said:

[Edited 9/25/09 22:12pm]

JuliePurplehead said:

look at the brightside, that's better than a stolen asshole...

roodboi said:

Or a sore purse.

Efan said:

mcmeekle said:

....what iz WRONG with you!

myfavorite said:

It's called a sense of humor. Having one is terminal but, apparently, not as catching as they say.

This reminds me of the way Ted Bundy used to lure his victims to his car, pretend he had a fractured arm and was trying to haul furniture. Also the movie "Silence of the lambs".

roodboi said:

I thought that was Marc Almond...

MrsGoodnight said:

might have been a Backstreet Boy...

roodboi said:

Was it you Roody? Is that why you brought it up... is there something you'd like to share with the group? We're all here for you and we're not here to judge...